Kia Ev9, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Kia America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 21 August 2026. 21,290 vehicles potentially affected.
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: SC379. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V545 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A child in the front seat may be at a greater risk of injury if the air bag deploys during a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V545 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Kia America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Sensor:Occupant Classification:Front Passenger |
| Reported to NHTSA | 21 August 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | KIA EV9 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Kia America, Inc (Kia) is recalling certain 2025-2026 EV9 vehicles. Due to improper routing, the Occupant Detection System (ODS) may not deactivate the air bag when a child or child seat is in the front passenger seat. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 208, "Occupant Crash Protection."
The consequence
A child in the front seat may be at a greater risk of injury if the air bag deploys during a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the ODS mat and bladder tube with a new one and ensure proper routing as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters will be mailed beginning October 20, 2026. Owners may contact Kia Customer Service at 1-800-333-4542. Kia's number for this recall is SC379. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov on September 4, 2026.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 9 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 7f3c914ac8937ea9e7f80b987b72d724…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 844 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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V545, wording as read on 9 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v545/
The copy quoted above hashes to 7f3c914ac8937ea9e7f80b987b72d724…. 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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- 26V173: 2027 Telluride Hybrid SX Prestige and X-Line SX Prestige
- 26V135: 2027 Kia Telluride and 2026 Kia K4
- 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 26V545 on 9 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
ad70fcf2 - Consequence
3f128e6c - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 26 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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