Kia Telluride Hybrid, model year 2027. Filed by Kia America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 20 March 2026. 568 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2027 Telluride Hybrid SX Prestige and X-Line SX Prestige vehicles equipped with the Executive Package. The second-row power seats may fail to detect a person. The seat may continue to move after contacting a person during powered seat functions, such as one-touch …
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Kia's own number for this recall: SC366. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V173 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 26V173 cover?
- Kia Telluride Hybrid, model year 2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2027 Telluride Hybrid SX Prestige and X-Line SX Prestige vehicles equipped with the Executive Package. The second-row power seats may fail to detect a person.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A person, especially a child, may become trapped by a rear powered seat, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised to exercise caution when operating the second-row power seat functions until the repair is performed. Children are advised to not be in the rear seats or near the rear seating area during power-folding operation.
- 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 SC366, 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 person, especially a child, may become trapped by a rear powered seat, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V173 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Kia America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Seats:Mid/Rear Assembly:Power Adjust |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 March 2026 |
| Model years | 2027-2027 |
| Vehicles named | KIA TELLURIDE HYBRID |
What the notice says today
The defect
Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2027 Telluride Hybrid SX Prestige and X-Line SX Prestige vehicles equipped with the Executive Package. The second-row power seats may fail to detect a person. The seat may continue to move after contacting a person during powered seat functions, such as one-touch tilt-and-slide or automatic power fold-and-stow.
The consequence
A person, especially a child, may become trapped by a rear powered seat, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Owners are advised to exercise caution when operating the second-row power seat functions until the repair is performed. Children are advised to not be in the rear seats or near the rear seating area during power-folding operation. The power second-row seat control unit software will be updated over-the-air (OTA) or by a dealer, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 20, 2026. Owners may contact Kia customer service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC366. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov on March 25, 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 b9978f3243835b1f543585ad511a7ce6…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 26V173, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v173/
The copy quoted above hashes to b9978f3243835b1f543585ad511a7ce6…. 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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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 26V173 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
88c2d194 - Consequence
f10e96cb - 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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