2022 Hyundai Palisade1st gen (2020–2025), pre-facelift, final year

Updated 2026-08-28NHTSA counts read on this date — 302 complaints. They rise over time.

2022 Hyundai Palisade Radiator: A Bulletin, Not a Recall

Fourteen complaints about the 2022 Hyundai Palisade say the radiator leaks. Five of them list a mileage: 10,000, about 15,000, under 15,000, 31,000, and about 40,000.

Hyundai wrote it down. In August 2023 it issued technical service bulletin 23-EM-003H, headed RADIATOR COOLANT LEAK REPAIR, which states that certain 2020–2022 Palisades “may exhibit a slight coolant leak at the radiator.” It tells dealers to inspect and replace the radiator assembly, gives them the part number, and books two hours of labor. It covers cars built between April 11, 2019 and May 9, 2022.

A bulletin is not a recall. Nobody mails it to you, and the VIN lookup on Hyundai’s recall page does not show it. It sits on NHTSA’s site as document 10241799, and you have to already know it exists to find it. One owner learned that in the middle of a road trip (ODI 11568619):

“I talked to the dealer where the car was inspected last December and was told that service departments do not loo at TBS unless the owner raises an issue. I do not have access to TBS to check what’s out there.”

That is the sentence this page exists for. If you’re shopping for a 2022 Palisade, the bulletin number is a thing you can say out loud at a service counter, and it costs nothing to say.

The basics

The 2022 is the last Palisade before the 2023 facelift, and mechanically it is the same car as the 2021 and the 2020. Put Hyundai’s own 2021 and 2022 product guides side by side and only four lines move, all of them on the base SE, and all of them driver aids: blind-spot collision-avoidance, rear cross-traffic collision-avoidance and Safe Exit Assist go from unavailable to standard, and the side mirrors gain turn signals. Everything else that reads as a change is a renaming — “Highway Drive Assist” becomes “Highway Driving Assist.”

So the interesting question is not what Hyundai changed. It is what three model years of the same hardware look like once the complaints arrive, and whether the third one breaks differently from the first two. It does, in one place.

Owners have filed 302 complaints with NHTSA about the 2022 model year. Hyundai sold 86,282 Palisades in calendar 2021 and 82,688 in 2022, and the 2022 model year sold across both, so the denominator is somewhere in the tens of thousands. I am not turning that into a rate. A model year does not line up with a calendar year, and 302 filings are not 302 owners. What the number is good for is comparison with the other model years in this series, counted the same way: 526 for the 2020, 423 for the 2021, 302 here.

One thing to hold onto while reading the rest. NHTSA’s database is a complaint box. Nobody files to say the radiator held. A category with 14 filings against tens of thousands of cars is a pattern worth checking, not a probability.

Specs

From Hyundai’s official 2022 Palisade product guide.

Third year running, none of those numbers moved. The last line is in the table because of what follows.

The trailering package is standard on every 2022 trim, and Hyundai’s guide spells out what it includes: a seven-pin prewire and heavy-duty engine and transmission oil coolers. Auto-leveling rear suspension is a separate item, standard from SEL Convenience up. That matters later, because the rear shocks are a category here and they are not the same part on every car.

How it was received

IIHS made the 2022 Palisade a Top Safety Pick+, with Good in all six crashworthiness categories, Good headlights across every trim, and Superior ratings for both vehicle-to-vehicle and daytime pedestrian front crash prevention. NHTSA gave it five stars overall, four for rollover.

Two ratings on that page came later and were not part of the award. IIHS added a tougher side-impact test after this car was rated, and the Palisade scores Marginal on it — the rating covers the 2020 through 2022 cars and the car IIHS crashed was a 2022. It also added a tougher moderate overlap front test, on which the Palisade rates Poor. Both sit on the ratings page today next to the Good scores from the original versions of the same tests. The award was real. So are the newer numbers, and they were run on the same body.

Crash tests measure what happens in a collision. They do not measure whether a radiator holds coolant at 15,000 miles, which is the rest of this page.

What owners filed

Categories below are sorted by count and each complaint is counted once. They add up to 282; the remaining 20 are one-offs that don’t form a pattern.

Seat belts — 73

The largest category for the second model year running, and the shape is familiar from the 2021 car. Forty-seven of these 73 describe a fastened belt coming undone — usually while the car was moving, usually in the second row, and often with a child in the seat. Counted here as every filing that names the belt, including the ones NHTSA also tagged airbags; NHTSA’s own grouping separates those, which is why the year-by-year table shows a smaller number.

There is a second failure in these filings: a buckle that will not latch at all. I am not going to give you a clean split between the two, because the filings do not contain one. Owners who describe a belt coming undone frequently describe it being hard to latch in the same paragraph. I read the same 73 filings twice and got two different counts. What the text does support is the direction. The belt coming undone is the majority complaint here. The belt refusing to latch is the minority one.

From January 2024 (ODI 11566113):

“Our 2nd row, passenger side seatbelt releases itself randomly while driving. The Hyundai dealership couldn’t replicate it but all they did was insert the seatbelt and tug on it. Multiple passengers have had it happen to them randomly so we don’t use that seat if possible.”

Hyundai recalled the 2020–2025 Palisade in September 2025 for buckles that may fail to latch (25V607000, Hyundai’s number 283). That is the minority failure by count, though not a different problem: NHTSA investigated the unlatching itself (PE24021, opened August 2024, closed December 2025 once this recall was filed), and Hyundai’s filing describes out-of-specification parts that add friction in the latch channel so a belt pushed in slowly may not fully latch. A buckle that never fully latched can open later. Twenty of the 73 mention that recall, and nearly all of the rest were filed before it existed. Fourteen of the 20 say the part was not available. Interim letters went out October 23, 2025. Final remedy letters started in June 2026 and Hyundai expects them to run through December 2026.

A dealership that cannot reproduce it has not cleared the car. It has run the one test the failure is known to pass.

Sunroof — 32

All 32 describe the glass breaking. Not one describes the roof jamming, sticking, or coming off its track — which is a real difference from the 2021, where eleven of 35 were mechanism failures.

The filings are close to interchangeable. Highway speed, a bang, glass falling onto the closed sunshade. From February 2023 (ODI 11509167):

“As I was driving on the freeway the sun roof spontaneously exploded. Nothing hit the vehicle, there were no cars or trucks around me tossing debris and I was not under an overpass. Temperature was around 55 degrees, it was raining off and on throughput the day, not raining at the time of the incident.”

Thirty of the 32 happened while the car was moving. The other two happened in a parking spot and in a car wash. There is no recall and no bulletin covering any of it, and panoramic roof glass is not something a used-car inspection can predict.

Engine shutdown and engine failure — 22

This is the loosest category on the page and I would rather say so than let the number stand on its own. It collects filings that use the words stall, shut off, lost power, or fire, and when you read them, several turn out to be about something else — a recall letter, a fuel injector, an alignment. What is left is two clusters.

One is a stall at low speed, coming to a stop. From July 2025 (ODI 11674133):

“My 2022 Hyundai Palisade has repeatedly shut off while coming to a stop. The vehicle stalls unexpectedly, dashboard lights illuminate as if the vehicle is being restarted, and the gear sometimes shifts into neutral.”

The other is recent and thin: thirteen of these 22 were filed in 2026, several of them describing a sudden loss of power on the highway with multiple dashboard warnings at once. Whether that is one failure or several, the filings do not say, and neither will I.

Two filings report a fire, both in a parked car. One is a total loss, and the fire department put the origin at the driver’s side rear, in wiring. That car was bought specifically for towing, and the owner writes that a dealer had already closed a recall on it, without saying which (ODI 11644831). The other burned part of the owner’s home, and someone fighting the fire was burned on the arms and face; that car had been at a dealer two weeks earlier for a recall repair (ODI 11724536). Whether either fire is the harness in recall 22V633000 below, the complaint record cannot say.

Rear shocks — 20

The 2020 Palisade drew 60 of these and the 2021 drew 30, so 20 continues a decline. What does not decline is how often the same car needs them twice. Nine of the 20 describe a repeat replacement.

From August 2025 (ODI 11678316):

“Repeated rear suspension failures on cars with self leveling suspension. I will be having my 4th set installed in 3 years. Rear suspension failure leads to unpredictable cornering and possible accident in and emergency maneuver. Hyundai has stated that there is no issue to warrant a recall or TSB.”

Four of the 20 name the self-leveling or auto-leveling suspension specifically, and five describe the shock leaking. The other sixteen do not say which suspension the car has, so this is not a category you can rule out by trim. Eleven of the 20 describe the symptom the same way: a clunk, thud or creak from the rear over bumps, at low speed.

Windshields — 15

Down from 45 on the 2021 and 103 on the 2020, and this is the one category where the fall is not a matter of the cars being younger. These arrived early and stopped: one filing in 2021, eleven in 2022 when the cars were new, two in 2023 and one in 2025.

Seven name something hitting the glass. Six say nothing hit it. From May 2022, on a car with 1,200 miles (ODI 11462945):

“Our new 2022 Hyundai Palisade Calligraphy with 1200 miles windshield spontaneously cracked in the middle after warming it with the remote car starter”

Still no recall and no bulletin. It remains an out-of-pocket item, and at this count it is no longer the headline it was two model years ago.

Radiator and coolant — 14

Here is the section the title is about. Counted the same way across the generation, the 2020 Palisade has zero of these, the 2021 has two, the 2022 has fourteen, the 2023 has one and the 2024 has one. Hyundai’s bulletin covers 2020 through 2022. The filings do not spread out that way, and nothing in the complaint record explains why.

The failures arrive early. From February 2023 (ODI 11508698), a complaint whose entire text is two sentences:

“Radiator began to leak in January 2023 at approximately 15000 miles. Replaced under warranty.”

Under warranty is the part worth holding onto. Hyundai’s basic coverage is five years or 60,000 miles, whichever comes first, and it transfers to a second owner. Whichever comes first is the catch: the earliest 2022 Palisades went on sale in 2021, so some are already outside the five years, and for most drivers 60,000 arrived first anyway. The owner above paid nothing. A buyer today should be prepared to pay for it unless the car is still inside Hyundai’s transferable basic coverage.

From February 2023 (ODI 11508620):

“My Palisade 2022 was only on 10k miles when the coolant tank is completely empty. I can see coolant on the engine bay floor as well as my garage floor. There is definitely a leak which drained the coolant.”

Five of the 14 were filed in 2023, three in 2024, five in 2025, one so far in 2026. That is a category still arriving, on cars that are four years old.

Oil consumption — 14

Down from 32 on the 2021 and 73 on the 2020, but these are the youngest of the three and the filings are still coming: three arrived in 2025 and seven in 2026, so ten of the 14 are from the last two years. Seven measure the loss in quarts. The engine is the same Lambda II V6 that produced 73 filings on the 2020 car, and there is no version of this data where 14 means the problem stopped.

Wiper motor — 14

Hyundai recalled the 2021–2023 Palisade in March 2023 because the wiper motor can operate intermittently or fail when snow or ice builds up on the windshield (23V180000, an expansion of the earlier 22V-627). Eight of these 14 mention a recall. The rest describe the same thing without naming it: the driver’s-side wiper stops mid-storm.

The remedy is a new driver-side wiper arm, and letters went out May 15, 2023. Like every recall, the question is not whether it is old. It is whether it was done on the specific car in front of you.

Tow hitch — 13

Eleven of these 13 are the same filing: an owner received the recall notice for 22V633000 and the dealer had no part. The recall covers 2020–2022 Palisades with a factory or dealer-accessory tow hitch harness, where debris and moisture on the circuit board can short and start a fire, and NHTSA’s advice was to park outside and away from structures until the repair is done. Letters were mailed May 18, 2023.

Thirteen filings is not thirteen fires. Eleven of them are people who got the recall notice and then could not get the repair.

Child safety locks — 10

Twenty-three filings on the 2021 Palisade describe the electronic child locks clicking continuously and then reporting a failure on the dash. Ten do here, on a year with a smaller total. Same description, and it has not gone away.

The rest is thin

Screens and electrical 10, steering 10, transmission 6, brakes 6, driver assistance 6, airbags 5, third-row seats 4, seats 2, liftgate struts 2, paint 2, wipers blocked by snow 2.

Recalls

Five, all still findable by VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.

22V353000 — instrument cluster, reported May 2022, and the only recall on this list that is 2022-only. Excessive adhesive in the cluster assembly can disable the display screen, which takes the gauges and warning lights with it. Dealers replace the cluster. Letters mailed July 15, 2022. Hyundai’s number 230.

22V633000 — tow hitch harness, reported August 2022, covering 2020–2022 cars with a factory or dealer-accessory harness. Debris and moisture on the circuit board can short and cause a fire. Dealers install a new fuse and wire extension kit. Letters mailed May 18, 2023. Hyundai’s number 235.

23V180000 — wiper motor, reported March 2023, covering 2021–2023 cars, an expansion of 22V-627. Snow or ice on the windshield can make the motor operate intermittently or stop. Dealers replace the driver-side wiper arm. Letters mailed May 15, 2023. Hyundai’s number 243.

25V607000 — seat belt buckles that may fail to latch, reported September 2025, covering 2020–2025 cars. Interim letters October 23, 2025; final remedy letters began June 2026 and run through December 2026. Hyundai’s number 283.

26V034000 — third-row side curtain airbags that may deploy improperly, reported January 2026, covering 2020–2025 cars. The vehicles do not comply with the federal ejection mitigation standard. Dealers install a protective film over the rear window and remove padding. Interim letters March 13, 2026; final remedy letters June through December 2026. Hyundai’s number 292.

Two of those five are still moving. Hyundai expects the final remedy letters for the seat belts and the curtain airbags to run into December 2026. Among the filings that mention a recall at all, the most common thing described is not the defect. It is the wait.

What doesn’t show up in the complaints

The radiator has a bulletin. For the rear shocks, one owner writes that Hyundai told them there was nothing to warrant a recall or a bulletin (ODI 11678316). A second owner names one — TSB 22-SS-001H, which replaces the upper shock insulators under warranty (ODI 11648161). Both can be true. That bulletin, issued January 2022, covers 2020–2021 Palisades with self-leveling shocks built through December 27, 2020. It does not cover this model year. Worth knowing before you cite it at a counter and get told no.

Nothing clusters in the crash categories. Across all 302 filings there are five crashes, seven injuries and no deaths. Three of the five crashes are in the brakes category and two of those describe a parking lot at low speed.

The third row draws four filings and the seats two. On a three-row family car that is close to silence, and it is worth saying because the third row is what people buy this car for.

There is no engine knock category here and no headlight category. There wasn’t one on the 2020 or the 2021 either. The Palisade’s headlight story was an IIHS footnote about which trims got the LED lamps, not a failure owners filed about.

What the complaint curve says

Filings by year: 3 in 2021, then 41 in 2022, 62 in 2023, 53 in 2024, 72 in 2025, and 71 so far in 2026.

The 2026 figure is eight months of a year that isn’t over. Even so, the shape is clear enough: this model year is generating more complaints now, at four years old, than it did when the cars were new.

Some of that is the seat belt recall, which arrived in September 2025 and pulled in owners who had been living with the problem and owners who could not get parts. Twenty-nine of the 73 seat belt filings landed in 2025 and 22 more in 2026. Some of it is mileage — the oil and radiator categories are both still arriving.

And some of it may be the warranty line. Hyundai’s basic coverage is five years or 60,000 miles, and a 2022 crossed 60,000 somewhere in 2025 or 2026 for most drivers. Whether that means more parts are failing or more owners are paying for the same failures, the complaint record cannot separate. Both would look like this.

If you’re looking at one

Ordered by what carries the most risk, not by count.

Ask whether recall 25V607000 has been completed, and get the answer in writing. These are the seat belt buckles. Fourteen of the 20 filings that mention this recall say the part was not available, so a dealer telling you it is “scheduled” is not the same as done. Check the VIN yourself at nhtsa.gov/recalls before you go. Separately from the recall, warranty extension Z06 of April 2025 covers these buckles on 2020–2025 Palisades for 15 years or 150,000 miles, whichever comes first, from the original in-service date and is valid for subsequent owners — the one part of this car whose coverage outlasts almost everything else on it.

Ask whether recall 22V633000 applies and whether it was completed. That is the tow hitch harness fire recall, and it covers dealer-installed accessory harnesses too, so confirm rather than assume.

Say “TSB 23-EM-003H” to the service department and ask whether the radiator was ever replaced. This is the one item on this list that a seller is unlikely to volunteer, because no letter was ever sent about it. Ask for the service history either way. A radiator replaced under warranty at 15,000 miles is in the records; a slow leak nobody has looked at is not.

Then open the hood and look at the coolant reservoir, cold. You are looking for the level against the marks and for pink residue on the radiator or the plastic around it — Hyundai’s own bulletin lists the coolant as pink, and one owner describes finding it on the garage floor (ODI 11508620). Another found the reservoir empty with no warning light on (ODI 11621451). This takes a minute, and it is the only item here you can check yourself.

Drive it slowly over something rough with the windows down. Eleven of the 20 rear-shock filings describe a clunk, thud or creak from the rear over bumps. Nine are owners on their second set or later. Five describe both — the noise and a second set. Ask whether the shocks have been replaced, and when, and at what mileage. A quiet car that has already been through one set is still a car that went through one.

Pull the dipstick and ask for oil change records. Fourteen filings concern oil consumption and half of them measure it in quarts. If the records show top-offs between changes, that is the pattern, and this engine has a long history of it on the earlier years.

Look up at the sunroof and accept that you cannot test it. Thirty of the 32 filings describe the glass breaking while the car was moving, and there is no inspection for this and no recall.

Numbers worth writing down

Sources

• Hyundai 2022 Palisade product guide — specifications and features
• Hyundai 2021 Palisade product guide — features, for the trim-by-trim comparison above
• NHTSA complaint database — 302 filings for the 2022 Palisade, retrieved 2026-08-28
• Hyundai warranty extension Z06 — seat belt buckles, 2020–2025 Palisade, 15 years/150,000 miles, April 2025
• NHTSA preliminary evaluation PE24021 — inadvertent seat belt unlatch, 2020–2023 Palisade, 37 complaints at opening, August 2024; closed December 2025 per NHTSA’s investigations database
• Hyundai technical service bulletin 23-EM-003H — NHTSA document 10241799
• IIHS ratings, 2022 Hyundai Palisade
• GoodCarBadCar Hyundai Palisade sales figures

This page is built from public NHTSA filings and manufacturer documents. It is not a mechanical inspection and it is not advice about a specific car. Complaint databases collect complaints; they do not measure how often a part fails.