Is This A Lemon?

Year · Make · Model

2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz

What the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration knows about this vehicle: every recall, every consumer complaint, every defect investigation, every NCAP crash test. Sourced directly from NHTSA data feeds.

2
Open recalls
16
NHTSA complaints
0
Defect investigations
26
Service bulletins

NCAP safety

Overall
Frontal
Side
Rollover

Consumer complaints

16 filed
1
Crashes
1
Fires
0
Injuries reported
0
Fatalities reported

What people complain about

  • Forward Collision AVOIDANCE: Warnings
    6
  • Forward Collision AVOIDANCE: Adaptive Cruise Control
    4
  • Exterior Lighting
    2
  • Forward Collision AVOIDANCE: Automatic Emergency Braking
    2
  • Service Brakes
    2
  • Unknown OR Other
    2
  • Electrical SYSTEM:INSTRUMENT PANEL:FUEL Gauge
    1
  • Forward Collision Avoidance
    1

Recalls

2 campaigns
25V809000·AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW:CURTAIN2025-11-20

Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2025 Tucson, 2025-2026 Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santa Fe Hybrid, and 2026 Genesis GV70 vehicles. The side curtain air bags may not have been installed properly, which can cause the air bags not to deploy as intended.

RiskSide curtain air bags that do not deploy as intended increase the risk of injury in a crash.

FixDealers will reinstall the side curtain air bags, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed beginning December 29, 2025. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's numbers for this recall are 289 and 029G. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on November 22, 2025.

24V877000·ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING2024-11-20

Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2025 Tucson and Santa Cruz vehicles. The console extension wiring assembly may be routed improperly, allowing the transmission to be shifted out of Park without applying the brake pedal.

RiskA transmission that can shift out of Park without applying the brake pedal can result in a vehicle roll away, increasing the risk of a crash.

FixOwners are advised to use the parking brake when parking the vehicle. Dealers will reroute the console extension wiring assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 17, 2024. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 273.

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