Hyundai Elantra, Hyundai Elantra N, Hyundai Tucson, Hyundai Tucson Hybrid, Hyundai Tucson Plug-In Hybrid, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Hyundai Motor America and reported to NHTSA on 21 April 2026. 2,931 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2025 Elantra N, 2026 Tucson, Tucson Hybrid, Tucson Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV), and Elantra vehicles. The B-pillar impact sensors may have been misassembled, which can delay air bag deployment.
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: 299. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V254 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 26V254 cover?
- Hyundai Elantra, Hyundai Elantra N, Hyundai Tucson, Hyundai Tucson Hybrid, Hyundai Tucson Plug-In Hybrid, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2025 Elantra N, 2026 Tucson, Tucson Hybrid, Tucson Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV), and Elantra vehicles. The B-pillar impact sensors may have been misassembled, which can delay air bag deployment.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- 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 inspect and replace the impact sensor(s), as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 11, 2026. Owners may contact Hyundai's customer service at 855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 299.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Hyundai calls this recall 299, 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: “Air bags that do not deploy as intended increase the risk of injury in a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V254 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Hyundai Motor America |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Sensor:Side Impact |
| Reported to NHTSA | 21 April 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | HYUNDAI ELANTRA, HYUNDAI ELANTRA N, HYUNDAI TUCSON, HYUNDAI TUCSON HYBRID, HYUNDAI TUCSON PLUG-IN HYBRID |
What the notice says today
The defect
Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2025 Elantra N, 2026 Tucson, Tucson Hybrid, Tucson Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV), and Elantra vehicles. The B-pillar impact sensors may have been misassembled, which can delay air bag deployment.
The consequence
Air bags that do not deploy as intended increase the risk of injury in a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the impact sensor(s), as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 11, 2026. Owners may contact Hyundai's customer service at 855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 299. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on April 22, 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 5458d12f32d13ee0295c89926edec24f…, 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
- Hyundai Elantra recalls: 29 US campaigns
- Hyundai Elantra N recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Hyundai Tucson recalls: 28 US campaigns
- Hyundai Tucson Hybrid recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Hyundai Tucson Plug-In Hybrid recalls: 4 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V254, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v254/
The copy quoted above hashes to 5458d12f32d13ee0295c89926edec24f…. 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 Hyundai notices we hold
- 26V493: 2027 Genesis G80
- 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 26V254 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
d534f7dc - Consequence
3e373732 - 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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