Hyundai Motor America 2010 Hyundai Elantra.Kia and its parent company Hyundai are recalling almost 1.9 million vehicles in three actions, according to reports posted on Wednesday on the Web site of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
About 1.7 million of those vehicles – Hyundais and Kias – are involved in separate recalls for the same problem: a malfunctioning stop lamp switch.
The automaker said the malfunction could set off a variety of faults, including the failure of the cruise control to disengage, failure of the brake light to illuminate, the ability to move the gear-shift lever out of Park without applying the brake and “the intermittent operation of the push-button start feature.”
The third recall covers about 186,000 2011-13 Hyundai Elantras because an air curtain air bag, if deployed in a crash, could propel a support bracket from the headliner into an occupant.
The largest stop-lamp recall covers just over one million Hyundai models, according to a report the automaker provided to the safety agency. They are the 2007-9 Accent and Tucson; 2007-10 Elantra; 2010-11 Genesis Coupe; 2007-11 Santa Fe; 2011 Sonata and the 2008-9 Veracruz.
The Kia recall covers almost 624,000 vehicles, according to the report filed with N.H.T.S.A. They are the 2011 Optima; 2007-10 Rondo; 2007 Sedona; 2007-11 Sorento; 2010-11 Soul and 2007-10 Sportage.
Some other Hyundai models had already been recalled once for a similar problem.
Hyundai in 2009 recalled almost 532,000 2005-8 models after the agency began investigating consumer complaints.
Hyundai decided the new recall was needed after Transport Canada, a counterpart to N.H.T.S.A., began investigating customer complaints of stop-lamp problems on models built after the 2009 recall. That prompted N.H.T.S.A. to get involved.
The Elantra air-bag recall was prompted by an investigation the agency began last year following the complaint from an owner who said his ear was cut when the air bag deployed.
In Hyundai’s report to the safety agency, the automaker said it had discovered the supporting bracket on some vehicles was apparently dislodged when optional auto-dimming rearview mirrors were installed after the vehicles left the assembly plant.
Hyundai described the recalls as voluntary, but once a manufacturer is aware of a safety problem the law requires it to inform the agency within five business days of plans for a recall or face a civil penalty.
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