Kia K4, Kia Telluride, model years 2026 to 2027. Filed by Kia America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 6 March 2026. 14,870 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Kia America, Inc (Kia) is recalling certain 2027 Kia Telluride and 2026 Kia K4 vehicles. The rear center seat belt anchor buckle in the 2026 K4 and the third-row center seat belt anchor buckle in the 2027 Telluride may not latch properly.
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.
Kia's own number for this recall: SC364. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V135 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V135 cover?
- Kia K4, Kia Telluride, model years 2026-2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- Kia America, Inc (Kia) is recalling certain 2027 Kia Telluride and 2026 Kia K4 vehicles. The rear center seat belt anchor buckle in the 2026 K4 and the third-row center seat belt anchor buckle in the 2027 Telluride may not latch properly.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A seat belt buckle that is not latched properly can fail to restrain an occupant in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and replace the anchor buckle assembly, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 5, 2026. Owners may contact Kia at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC364.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Kia calls this recall SC364, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
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: “A seat belt buckle that is not latched properly can fail to restrain an occupant in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V135 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Kia America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Seat Belts:Rear/Other:Anchorage |
| Reported to NHTSA | 6 March 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2027 |
| Vehicles named | KIA K4, KIA TELLURIDE |
What the notice says today
The defect
Kia America, Inc (Kia) is recalling certain 2027 Kia Telluride and 2026 Kia K4 vehicles. The rear center seat belt anchor buckle in the 2026 K4 and the third-row center seat belt anchor buckle in the 2027 Telluride may not latch properly.
The consequence
A seat belt buckle that is not latched properly can fail to restrain an occupant in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the anchor buckle assembly, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 5, 2026. Owners may contact Kia at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC364. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning March 20, 2026.
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 7d0f52e8825e3ef9a977d48631f59dbc…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 451 notices in the record whose component field names seat belts. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 48 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 26V135, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v135/
The copy quoted above hashes to 7d0f52e8825e3ef9a977d48631f59dbc…. 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.
Other Kia notices we hold
- 26V545: 2025-2026 EV9
- 26V431: 2022-2024 EV6 and 2024 EV9
- 26V430: 2020-2024 Telluride
- 26V356: 2027 Telluride and Telluride Hybrid
- 26V232: 2022-2026 Carnival
- 26V173: 2027 Telluride Hybrid SX Prestige and X-Line SX Prestige
- 26V105: 2025 Telluride
- 25V874: 2023-2025 Sportage Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV) and 2024-2025 Sportage
All 164 Kia 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 26V135 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
af698a81 - Consequence
ddb57d5f - 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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