2026 Hyundai Santa Fe Seats Problems

Your second-row captain's chairs have a safety defect: when you press the one-touch tilt-and-slide button, the seat continues folding even when a passenger is seated with the seatbelt fastened, potentially crushing the occupant. This issue has been reported on Hyundai Palisade models and is now affecting your Santa Fe.

Your 2026 Santa Fe's power-fold middle row seats may fold unexpectedly and cannot be stopped once activated, even if someone is in the way or trying to prevent it. The seat has a sensor that only stops folding if it contacts the front seat, but the sensor's threshold may be set too high to detect obstacles in normal positions. Additionally, manually repositioning the middle row backward may trigger the seat to fold again on its own without any command from you. This issue is similar to a problem being recalled in the Hyundai Palisade and poses a safety risk. A fix would likely involve recalibrating or redesigning the power-fold sensor sensitivity and the seat's control software.

While adjusting your front driver's seat, the second-row passenger seat on the right side unexpectedly started folding down on its own — with your child in a booster seat. You were able to stop it before it fully collapsed, and your child wasn't hurt. The seat appears to have an electrical control issue that's causing it to activate when you don't intend it to.