Genesis Gv70, Hyundai Santa Cruz, Hyundai Santa Fe, Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid, Hyundai Tucson, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Hyundai Motor America and reported to NHTSA on 21 November 2025. 258 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2025 Tucson, 2025-2026 Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santa Fe Hybrid, and 2026 Genesis GV70 vehicles. The side curtain air bags may not have been installed properly, which can cause the air bags not to deploy as intended.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 25V809 cover?
- Genesis GV70, Hyundai Santa Cruz, Hyundai Santa Fe, Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid, Hyundai Tucson, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2025 Tucson, 2025-2026 Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santa Fe Hybrid, and 2026 Genesis GV70 vehicles. The side curtain air bags may not have been installed properly, which can cause the air bags not to deploy as intended.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Side curtain air bags that do not deploy as intended increase the risk of injury in a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will reinstall the side curtain air bags, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed beginning December 29, 2025. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's numbers for this recall are 289 and 029G.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “Side curtain air bags that do not deploy as intended increase the risk of injury in a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V809 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Hyundai Motor America |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Side/Window:Curtain |
| Reported to NHTSA | 21 November 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | GENESIS GV70, HYUNDAI SANTA CRUZ, HYUNDAI SANTA FE, HYUNDAI SANTA FE HYBRID, HYUNDAI TUCSON |
What the notice says today
The defect
Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2025 Tucson, 2025-2026 Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santa Fe Hybrid, and 2026 Genesis GV70 vehicles. The side curtain air bags may not have been installed properly, which can cause the air bags not to deploy as intended.
The consequence
Side curtain air bags that do not deploy as intended increase the risk of injury in a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will reinstall the side curtain air bags, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed beginning December 29, 2025. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's numbers for this recall are 289 and 029G. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on November 22, 2025.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 6d5716a8431cf3a79e518a5e87005e22…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 846 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Genesis GV70 recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Hyundai Santa Cruz recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Hyundai Santa Fe recalls: 25 US campaigns
- Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Hyundai Tucson recalls: 28 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 25V809, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v809/
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The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other Hyundai notices we hold
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- 26V452: 2025 Kona Electric and 2026 Kona
- 26V432: 2023-2024 Ioniq 5
- 26V400: 2025-2026 Tucson, Tucson Hybrid, Tucson Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV)
- 26V316: 2025-2026 Santa Cruz, Tucson, Tucson Hybrid, and Tucson Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV)
- 26V314: 2025 Ioniq 5 and 2026 Ioniq 9
- 26V308: 2024-2026 Elantra Hybrid
- 26V307: 2015-2016 Elantra and 2016 Elantra GT
All 236 Hyundai campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 25V809 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
099b2720 - Consequence
01d9016a - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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