2024 Hyundai Palisade1st gen facelift (2023–2025)

Updated 2026-08-28NHTSA counts read on this date — 380 complaints. They rise over time.

2024 Hyundai Palisade Brakes: ABS Activates Over Bumps

Owners have filed 380 complaints with NHTSA about the 2024 Hyundai Palisade. 204 of them are the brakes.

That is not a category. That is the car’s record with a few other things attached. Nothing else in this series comes close — on the 2022 Palisade, brakes drew six filings out of 302.

Two-thirds of them describe one thing, and they describe it the same way. You are braking at low speed. The car crosses something uneven — a speed bump, a pothole, a railroad crossing, gravel, a dip in the pavement. The ABS activates, the pedal pushes back, and the car keeps going. From April 2025 (ODI 11655518), a crash with an injury:

“As the vehicle drove over railroad tracks the steering wheel began to shake violently and I attempted to push the brake pedal with my full body weight but the brakes would not work and the car lunged forward, striking the vehicle in front of me.”

Of the 204, 76 name both the ABS and an uneven surface, and 124 say it happens at low speed or in a parking lot. Seventy-one describe a near miss or a collision. Fifteen of the 380 filings are recorded as crashes, and nine of those fifteen are here.

There is no recall for this. There is also no NHTSA investigation. I pulled all 4,177 records in NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation database, a hundred at a time, and searched them.

Two name the Palisade. One is a 2022 windshield wiper recall query, closed in 2023. The other is a 2024 preliminary evaluation into seat belts unlatching, closed in December 2025, and it covers the 2020 through 2023 cars rather than this one.

Counted the same way across the facelift generation — 75 filings on the 2023, 204 here, 84 on the 2025 — that is 363 brake complaints across three model years with no defect investigation open. They are not all the same failure; on the 2023, 28 of the 75 name both the ABS and an uneven surface. But brakes are the largest category on all three cars.

The basics

The 2024 is the second year of the facelift and it is the same car as the 2023: same Lambda II 3.8-liter V6, same eight-speed, same 196.7-inch body, same 5,000-pound tow rating. Put Hyundai’s 2023 and 2024 spec guides side by side and the only line that moves is fuel economy, which goes back down a single highway mpg to where the 2022 was.

Hyundai sold 89,509 Palisades in calendar 2023 and 110,055 in 2024, and the 2024 model year sold across both, so the denominator is in the tens of thousands. I am not turning that into a rate. 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 for the 2022, 390 for the 2023, 380 here.

Three of those years are bigger than this one. None has 204 filings about a single system.

NHTSA’s database only holds complaints. Nobody files to say their brakes worked.

Specs

From Hyundai’s official 2024 Palisade specifications.

Five model years in, the engine numbers have not moved once.

How it was received

IIHS gave the 2024 Palisade a Top Safety Pick, one step below the Top Safety Pick+ the 2023 received. Where the two cars were tested in the same categories, the results are identical — Good on the original moderate overlap and small overlap tests, Good on the updated side test, Poor on the updated moderate overlap front, Good headlights on every trim. The award changed. The crash results did not.

NHTSA splits the 2024 Palisade into an early release and a later release. The early-release cars carry five stars overall and four for rollover. The later-release cars have a five-star frontal result and no overall rating published.

Crash tests measure what a structure does once a collision has started. They do not measure whether the car stops when you press the pedal on a road that isn’t smooth, 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 361. The remaining 19 are not all one-offs: five of them are about the low-beam headlights and five are about the valve spring recall below, and neither one has a category of its own.

Brakes — 204

More than half of everything filed about this model year. Counted here as every filing NHTSA tagged service brakes, including the ones it also tagged forward-collision avoidance; its own grouping separates those, which is why the year-by-year table shows a smaller number.

The pattern in the text is consistent enough that the filings start to sound like one person writing 204 times. Braking at low speed, an uneven surface, the ABS activating, and a stop that does not happen when it should. From September 2025 (ODI 11685546):

“When going over roads with small bumps that are spread a few feet apart, pressing the brakes unexpectedly engages the ABS. This causes the braking distance to increase drastically and also requires the brake pedal to be pressed with excessive pressure to even stop. This happens consistently and has nearly caused us to rear end the vehicle in front of us.”

109 of the 204 name the ABS or the anti-lock system directly. 134 name an uneven surface — bumps, potholes, railroad tracks, gravel, manhole covers. Seventy-six name both.

Twenty-one filings say the dealer could not reproduce it. That is the single most useful thing in this category for someone buying one, and one owner shows why the dealer visit is not the end of it (ODI 11614582):

“abs fails when going over bumps at speeds of 15mph or under and I’ve had it repaired 2x in the 3 months I’ve owned it”

Repaired twice, still filing. Whatever the dealers are doing, the complaints kept arriving: 88 in 2024, 106 in 2025.

Seat belts — 50

A fastened belt coming undone, and a buckle that will not latch. Hyundai’s September 2025 recall (25V607000) covers the 2020–2025 Palisade for the second one, and the 2022 page works through the mismatch between what the recall names and what most owners describe. Same convention as the brakes above — every filing that names the belt, including the ones NHTSA also tagged airbags.

50 here against 73 on the 2023 and 73 on the 2022, on a year with a similar total. Fifty is the lowest this category has been across six model years.

Rear shocks — 20

Clunking from the rear over bumps at low speed, and the repeat-replacement pattern that runs through every model year of this car — 60, 30, 20, 26, 20 and 13 filings from the 2020 to the 2025. TSB 22-SS-001H, which replaces the upper shock insulators, covers 2020–2021 cars only.

Look at when owners say it happens: over bumps, at low speed. That is the same road surface as the brake complaints — and the record ties the two together more directly than just that. NHTSA tagged ten of these twenty filings with both SUSPENSION and SERVICE BRAKES, and seven of the ten describe the braking failure rather than a noise. One of them reads: “WHEN BRAKING ON BUMPY ROAD THE BRAKES DO NOT STOP THE CAR” (ODI 11621068).

Two things follow from that. The 204 above may still understate the number of brake-related filings. And the dual tagging is a facelift-only pattern — none of the 2020 or 2021 rear-shock filings carry it, against two on the 2022, three on the 2023, ten here and six on the 2025 — so the run of rear-shock counts above is not a clean apples-to-apples comparison.

Sunroof — 17

Glass breaking on its own at speed. Seventeen here against 31 on the 2023 and 32 on the 2022. No recall and no bulletin covers it.

Engine shutdown and engine failure — 12

The loosest category on this page, as on every page in this series. It collects filings that use the words stall, shut off, lost power or fire.

Two filings here report a fire: one names the OEM wiring harness while towing, and one puts the origin in the front driver’s side of the engine bay. A third fire sits in screens and electrical, where an owner blames the air conditioning compressor at 1,700 miles.

Six filings in the whole record mention the valve spring recall below. Five of the six are about the letter. One describes the symptoms (ODI 11691753): the vehicle shaking violently, the check engine light, a loss of power. The 2024 Telluride carries the twin of this recall, and no owner there has filed a complaint saying a valve spring actually broke.

The rest is thin

Driver assistance 9, windshields 8, transmission 8, airbags 8, steering 7, screens and electrical 7, seats 3, paint 2, wiper motor 2, oil consumption 2, third-row seats 1, radiator and coolant 1.

Five of the eight airbag filings are owners reporting that they received the 26V034000 recall notice and could not get the repair.

Recalls

Five, all searchable by VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls. None of them is the brakes.

23V526000 — Idle Stop & Go oil pump controller, reported July 2023, covering 2023–2024 Palisades along with several other Hyundai models. Damaged electrical components can make the controller overheat, which is a fire risk. NHTSA’s advice was to park outside and away from structures until the repair is done. Letters mailed starting September 7, 2023. Hyundai’s number 246.

23V599000 — occupant detection, reported August 2023, and 2024-only. On cars with dark premium suede seats, the system may fail to detect a front passenger and deactivate the passenger airbags, which puts the car out of compliance with the federal occupant crash protection standard. Dealers update the software. Letters mailed September 26, 2023. Hyundai’s number 249.

24V106000 — engine valve springs, reported February 2024, and 2024-only. The springs may break while driving. Hyundai’s stated consequences are a loss of drive power, which raises crash risk, and possibly a hole in the engine block, which raises fire risk. The remedy is not an inspection: dealers replace the engine sub-assembly. Letters mailed by December 6, 2024. Hyundai’s number 255.

25V607000 — seat belt buckles that may fail to latch, reported September 2025, covering 2020–2025 cars. Until the remedy is done, Hyundai’s instruction is to insert the belt firmly with a quick and direct motion and then pull on it to confirm it is secured. 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.

What doesn’t show up in the complaints

The heaviest recall on this car is the valve springs, and the remedy is a new engine sub-assembly. Almost nobody is filing about it — six mentions out of 380, and five of those are about the letter rather than a failure.

The largest category has no recall, no service bulletin, and no investigation.

That inversion is the thing to carry out of this page. The document trail and the complaint record are pointing at different parts of the car.

Six filings in the whole record describe the low-beam pattern — a short cutoff, dim output, or a dark patch on one side of the road. Three of the six are one owner filing updates, so it is four people at most. The third filing relays what Hyundai told the owner after replacing the left lamp assembly did not fix it (ODI 11662376):

“1) The headlights are designed this way. 2) She believes it is a standard design used by other companies as well. 3) This closes out my complaint with Hyundai.”

IIHS rates this car’s headlights Good on every trim. Both of those can be true. IIHS measures useful illumination distance and glare on a test track, on straightaways and on curves; these are people driving at night on the roads they have.

Oil consumption draws two filings. On the 2020 car it drew 73 and was the second-largest thing in the data. These cars are four years younger, so this is one to watch; the complaints have not all landed yet.

The third row draws one filing and the seats three, which is close to silence on a car people buy for the third row.

What the complaint curve says

Filings by year: 8 in 2023, 127 in 2024, 163 in 2025, and 82 so far in 2026.

The brake filings run 2, 88, 106 and 8 across the same years, so the drop in 2026 is the brakes. The rise is not only them. Take the brakes out and the rest of the record goes 6, 39, 57 and 74 — up every year, with the unfinished year already the largest.

The 2026 brake number needs a caveat. Eight against 106 the year before could be the problem easing, or owners giving up on filing, or NHTSA’s data lagging. The complaint record cannot separate those, and a car that has been on the road two years is not done generating complaints.

If you’re looking at one

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

On the test drive, find some rough pavement — not just smooth road — and brake normally on it, with room ahead of you and nobody behind you. Seventy-six of the 204 filings name both the ABS and an uneven surface, and 124 say it happens at low speed or in a parking lot. What owners report is the ABS activating, the pedal pushing back, and the stop taking longer than it should. Do not go looking for a railroad crossing to test this on; the one brake crash with an injury in this data happened at one. Twenty-one filings say the dealer could not reproduce it, so a clean drive is weaker evidence here than usual.

Ask for the service history and look for brake or ABS visits. One owner had it repaired twice in three months and was still filing. A car with two brake visits and no diagnosis is telling you something a single test drive will not.

Ask whether recall 24V106000 has been completed, and get the answer in writing. These are the engine valve springs, and the remedy is a new engine sub-assembly rather than an inspection. It is 2024-only. If the work was done, the car has had major engine surgery and you want that in the records.

Ask whether recall 26V034000 has been completed. Third-row side curtain airbags that may not meet the federal ejection-mitigation standard. Final remedy letters run through December 2026, so this is the one most likely to still be open today.

Ask whether recall 23V599000 applies, and if it does, whether it was done. It only covers cars with the dark premium suede seats, and the fix is a software update for the system that decides whether the passenger airbag arms. Check the seats, then check the VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.

Ask whether recall 25V607000 has been completed, and know the buckles carry a 15-year warranty. These are the seat belt buckles, and the parts have been slow — a dealer telling you it is scheduled is not the same as done. Separately, Hyundai’s 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, valid for subsequent owners. That is longer coverage than anything else on the car carries.

Drive it slowly over something rough with the windows down. A clunk from the rear over bumps is the rear shock pattern, and it appears on every model year of this car.

Numbers worth writing down

Sources

• Hyundai 2024 Palisade specifications
• NHTSA complaint database — 380 filings for the 2024 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
• NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation database, all 4,177 records retrieved 2026-08-28 — no open or closed investigation covers Palisade brakes
• IIHS ratings, 2024 Hyundai Palisade
• GoodCarBadCar Hyundai Palisade sales figures

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