Hyundai Kona, Hyundai Kona Electric, model years 2024 to 2026. Filed by Hyundai Motor America and reported to NHTSA on 14 July 2026. 47,787 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Kona Electric and 2024-2026 Kona vehicles. The seat belt buckle in the rear center seat may fail to properly restrain an occupant during a crash.
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: 306. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V452 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 26V452 cover?
- Hyundai Kona, Hyundai Kona Electric, model years 2024-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Kona Electric and 2024-2026 Kona vehicles. The seat belt buckle in the rear center seat may fail to properly restrain an occupant during a crash.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A seat belt buckle that fails to properly restrain an occupant in a crash increases the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Passengers are advised not to use the rear center seat until the recall remedy is performed. Dealers will replace the seat belt buckle assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 2, 2026. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460.
- 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 306, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
- Has this notice changed since it was announced?
- Yes. The remedy was reworded on 11 Sep 2026. Both versions are on this page, with the date each was read.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
Owners of this vehicle were written to on 2 September 2026. The remedy was reworded on 11 September 2026, 9 days later, so the letter described the earlier version. Read both versions.
Owners of this vehicle were written to on 2 September 2026. The summary was reworded on 3 September 2026, 1 day later, so the letter described the earlier version. Read both versions.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A seat belt buckle that fails to properly restrain an occupant in a crash increases the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V452 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Hyundai Motor America |
| System at fault | Seat Belts: Rear/Other:Buckle Assembly |
| Reported to NHTSA | 14 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2024-2026 |
| Vehicles named | HYUNDAI KONA, HYUNDAI KONA ELECTRIC |
What the notice says today
The defect
Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Kona Electric and 2024-2026 Kona vehicles. The seat belt buckle in the rear center seat may fail to properly restrain an occupant during a crash.
The consequence
A seat belt buckle that fails to properly restrain an occupant in a crash increases the risk of injury.
The remedy
Passengers are advised not to use the rear center seat until the recall remedy is performed. Dealers will replace the seat belt buckle assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 2, 2026. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 306. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 15, 2026.
What it said before
This notice has been edited since it was first published. NHTSA shows only the current version. Both are below, read straight from the agency at the times shown, with the words that moved marked.
The remedy was rewritten
2 words added, 5 removed. The notice grew from 448 to 433 characters.
Passengers are advised not to use the rear center seat until the recall remedy is performed. Dealers will replace the seat belt buckle assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 11, 2026. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 306. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 15, 2026.
Passengers are advised not to use the rear center seat until the recall remedy is performed. Dealers will replace the seat belt buckle assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 2, 2026. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 306. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 15, 2026.
The summary was rewritten
2 words added, 2 removed. The notice grew from 198 to 208 characters.
Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2025 Kona Electric and 2026 Kona vehicles. The seat belt buckle in the rear center seat may fail to properly restrain an occupant during a crash.
Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Kona Electric and 2024-2026 Kona vehicles. The seat belt buckle in the rear center seat may fail to properly restrain an occupant during a crash.
Nothing above is our paraphrase. Both columns are the agency’s own text; only the marking is ours.
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 26V452, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v452/
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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.
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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 26V452 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
653e57ab - Consequence
252329e9 - 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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