Hyundai Tucson, model years 2022 to 2024. Filed by Hyundai Motor America and reported to NHTSA on 19 December 2025. 51,587 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2022-2024 Tucson vehicles equipped with an optional Mobis tow hitch wiring harness. The wiring harness may have been installed incorrectly, allowing water into the control module. Moisture accumulation may cause the trailer lighting to fail or an electrical short …
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.
Hyundai's own number for this recall: 290. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V893 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
Owners are told to park away from buildings: the wording the agency uses when a vehicle can catch fire with the ignition off.
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V893 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Hyundai Motor America |
| System at fault | Trailer Hitches |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 December 2025 |
| Model years | 2022-2024 |
| Vehicles named | HYUNDAI TUCSON |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told to park it outside, away from buildings: the wording used when a vehicle can catch fire while switched off and unattended.
What the notice says today
The defect
Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2022-2024 Tucson vehicles equipped with an optional Mobis tow hitch wiring harness. The wiring harness may have been installed incorrectly, allowing water into the control module. Moisture accumulation may cause the trailer lighting to fail or an electrical short circuit.
The consequence
Nonfunctioning trailer lights can increase the risk of a crash. A short circuit can increase the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Owners are advised to park outside and away from structures until the recall repair is complete. Dealers will remove the trailer wiring harness and install a dust cap over the wiring receptacle, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 11, 2026. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 290. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on December 20, 2025.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 10 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 61b06419af4c9b2e6393b3337a40b14f…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 142 notices in the record whose component field names trailer hitches. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 32 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V893, wording as read on 10 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v893/
The copy quoted above hashes to 61b06419af4c9b2e6393b3337a40b14f…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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.
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- 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 25V893 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
6bb03c75 - Consequence
8a297688 - 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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