Hyundai has issued a security recall that applies it over 4,000 items of the Palisade constructed throughout the 2024 mannequin 12 months. The SUVs included within the marketing campaign might expertise a valve spring failure, an issue that may trigger main engine harm together with puncturing a gap within the block.
Assigned recall quantity 24V-106 by the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration (NHTSA), the recall consists of 4,245 items of the Palisade constructed between August 21 and October 12, 2023. The corporate estimates that the defect is barely current in 1% of those automobiles.
It is a severe one, although. Hyundai advised the NHTSA that the valve springs had been broken throughout manufacturing, which is dealt with by a third-party provider, and that they will consequently “fracture while driving due to fatigue cracking.” In case you want a refresher course, the valves let air into the engine and permit exhaust gases out. The springs open and shut the valves whereas stopping them from dropping into the cylinder. As famous in Hyundai’s paperwork, a fractured valve spring could cause “a sudden loss of motive power” with out prior warning.
The corporate provides that, “in rare cases,” a valve whose spring breaks can drop into the combustion chamber and puncture a gap within the engine block after coming involved with a piston. This will increase the chance of a hearth, and repairing the harm requires changing the engine.
Hyundai is conscious of 18 valve-spring-related issues reported between October 30, 2023, and January 25, 2024. It provides that it isn’t conscious of any crashes, accidents, or fatalities linked to the defect. The corporate will attain out to homeowners of affected automobiles by mail beginning on April 13, 2024, and it’ll ask them to take their Palisade to the closest approved supplier so {that a} technician can exchange what it refers to because the “engine sub-assembly.” The valves and valve springs are situated within the cylinder head, but it surely feels like Hyundai is not taking probabilities.
Energy for the Palisade comes from a 3.8-liter V6 that Hyundai sister firm Kia additionally places within the Telluride. Unsurprisingly, Kia issued the identical recall. It is assigned quantity 24V-077 by the NHTSA, and it consists of 2,872 items of the Telluride constructed from October 1 to December 6, 2024. Kia estimates the defect is current in about 3% of the recalled automobiles, and it’ll start notifying homeowners by mail on April 5, 2024.
The repair is similar: The model will exchange the “engine sub-assembly” within the recalled SUVs freed from cost.