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Hyundai Santa Fe recalls: 25 US campaigns

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NHTSA has recorded 25 distinct safety campaigns against the Hyundai SANTA FE since 2016. The Dutch register holds 12, for the 6,168 of them registered on Dutch roads.

25US safety campaigns
2016–2025
12Dutch campaigns
all years on file
6,168registered on
the Dutch road

American regulators have recorded 13 more distinct campaigns against the Hyundai SANTA FE than the Dutch register holds.

What those campaigns were about

NHTSA files every campaign against the system at fault. For the Hyundai SANTA FE, the American record breaks down like this: counted once per campaign, not once per model year.

Air bags4
Engine and engine cooling3
Back over prevention3
Seat belts2
Trailer hitches2
Fuel system, gasoline2
Power train2
Electrical system2

What this does not mean. A larger count on one side is not proof that the other country's owners were abandoned. Model variants differ between markets, an American campaign can cover an engine or body never sold in Europe, and a privately imported car has no national importer obliged to write to its owner, which is itself worth knowing. We publish the difference as a measured fact and an open question, never as an accusation.

Check whether a Hyundai SANTA FE recall was quietly rewritten · check your own car, by country

US figures are distinct NHTSA campaign numbers for vehicle recalls, read from NHTSA's published bulk file, last read 17 September 2026. Dutch figures are campaigns recorded by the Netherlands vehicle register; the fleet count is the Netherlands vehicle register's vehicle register. One campaign counts once however many model years it covers.

What the SANTA FE record is mostly about

Recalls are not interchangeable, and this model’s are not spread evenly. The single largest group is air bags, with 4 of the 25 American campaigns filed against it, followed by engine and engine cooling (3) and back over prevention (3). The full breakdown is in the table above, counted once per campaign rather than once per model year: a single campaign covering six years of SANTA FE production counts once here, which is not how most recall counts are quoted.

Check a Hyundai SANTA FE

A recall lookup tells you what is open on your car today. It does not tell you whether the notice was edited after it was published: manufacturers revise them, and the new version replaces the old one on the public record. We keep the originals, hashed and dated. Check a Hyundai SANTA FE against ours, or look your own car up by country.

How these two registers are compared, why most models cannot be compared at all, and which forty can: the method is here. Figures rebuild themselves from NHTSA’s bulk file and the Netherlands national vehicle register’s open data; freshness is public on the status page.

Every campaign, as the authority wrote it

23 of these campaigns are listed below. The page behind every number carries the fault, the fix and the wording as filed - and any later change to that wording.

The rest of the Hyundai record

Every Hyundai campaign we hold, newest first, with the ones caught being rewritten marked.

Other Hyundai models:

Sonata40Elantra29Tucson28Palisade16Ioniq 515Sonata Hybrid13Santa Fe Sport11Accent10Genesis10Veloster10Kona9Santa Cruz9Santa Fe Hybrid9Azera6Elantra Hybrid6Genesis Coupe6Ioniq 66Elantra N5Kona Electric5Nexo5Elantra Touring4Ioniq Hybrid4Santa Fe Plug-In Hybrid4Tucson Hybrid4Tucson Plug-In Hybrid4Veracruz4Equus3Ioniq Electric3Palisade Hybrid3Venue3

Hyundai Santa Fe across the registers

This site holds seven national and European registers. Hyundai Santa Fe is named on 41 American notices, 61 Canadian, 19 British, 13 European and 11 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules. Nothing here says any one of them is another one in a different country.

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Israeli

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Hyundai Santa Fe, 145 recall notices held in 5 registers, every version kept at CarsMultiverse

The figure is recounted as the registers publish, so the badge does not go stale.

The Hyundai Santa Fe in other countries

Israel

Matched by meaning across the registers we hold; check the models and years on each notice. Check one car by VIN or number plate. Email me when the Hyundai Santa Fe gets a new recall.