These help you judge whether this one is worth its price.
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What owners complain about
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Questions for the seller, test drive checks and price points
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Questions to ask the seller of a 2025 Hyundai Palisade, built from this year's owner complaints and recalls. What to feel, hear and look at on the test drive, with boxes to tick at the car. Honest points to raise on price, from the records and never from guesses. Copy the questions to your phone in one tap.
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Type the asking price and your own offer for the 2025 Hyundai Palisade, tick what you found, and get a polite message ready to text or email. Its reasons come from this year's owner complaints, recalls and crash ratings, and never from made up repair prices.
NHTSA's stars out of five, for each version it tested. Front crash stars only compare cars of about the same size and weight.
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Fuel economy
The EPA's estimates for each engine and transmission, and its own yearly fuel cost. Yours depends on how you drive and the shape the car is in.
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True cost to own
The loan, fuel, insurance and upkeep, a month and over 5 years
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What it really costs to own
What the 2025 Hyundai Palisade costs a month and over 5 years: the loan and its interest, fuel worked out from the EPA's figures for the version you pick, and your own insurance, registration and upkeep. A cost a mile, a link that reopens your numbers, and the breakdown copied to your phone in one tap.
Owner complaints for each model year, this one outlined. Tap a year to open it. The newest 2 are not judged yet. Bars are totals, so older years stand taller; the verdict compares every year at the same age.
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Before you buy this one
Built from this year's numbers. Whatever the data says, the car in front of you is the one that counts.
3 recalls on file, 1 saying do not drive or park outside
Not every car needs every fix. Run the VIN at NHTSA to see which are still open. Repairs are usually free at a dealer for the brand; ask before any work.
Transmission and drivetrain
May 6, 2025 · Recall 25V291000Park outside.NHTSA says: Away from buildings until it is fixed: a fire risk.
Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2025 Hyundai Palisade vehicles. An insufficient seal on the controller for the electric oil pump may allow moisture to accumulate in the printed circuit board, which can cause an electrical short and result in a fire.
What can happen
A fire while parked or driving can increase the risk of injury.
The fix
Owners are advised to park their vehicles outside and away from structures until the recall remedy is completed. Dealers will replace the electric oil pump controller, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 11, 2025. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 278.
Air bags
Jan 23, 2026 · Recall 26V034000
Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2020-2025 Palisade vehicles. The side curtain air bags for third-row occupants may deploy improperly in a crash. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 226, "Ejection Mitigation."
What can happen
Improper side curtain air bag deployment increases the risk of injury during a crash.
The fix
Dealers will install a protective film over the rear window and remove padding, as necessary free of charge. Interim notification letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed beginning March 13, 2026. Final remedy owner letters will be mailed in phases, beginning in June 2026 and expected to continue through December 2026. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 292. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on January 24, 2026.
Seat belts
Sep 12, 2025 · Recall 25V607000
Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2020-2025 Palisade vehicles. The seat belt buckles in the driver, passenger, and second-row window seats may fail to latch.
What can happen
Seat belt buckles that fail to latch may not properly restrain occupants in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
The fix
Passengers are advised to insert the belt firmly into the buckle with a quick and direct motion, pulling on the belt to confirm the seat belt is fully secured, until the recall remedy is performed. Dealers will replace the seat belt buckle assemblies, free of charge. Interim notification letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed beginning October 23, 2025. Final remedy owner letters will be mailed in phases, beginning in June 2026 and expected to continue through December 2026. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 283. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on September 13, 2025.
Unverified reports, not adjusted for sales. One complaint can name several parts, so shares add up past 100%. Filed Nov 4, 2024 to Oct 29, 2026. 11% name a part that is usually costly to fix.
Owners reported 9 crashes, 1 fire, 7 injuries and 1 death in these complaints.
Brakes96 · 37%
Seat belts61 · 24%
Other or unknown47 · 18%
What one owner wrote about the brakes
The contact owned a 2025 Hyundai Palisade. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the brake pedal was depressed with both feet, but the brakes failed to engage properly. The vehicle slid and jumped, and the brakes made a grinding sound. No warning light was illuminated. The failure caused the vehicle to rear-end another vehicle in…
Every part owners name for the 2025 Hyundai Palisade, with their own words about what went wrong. Usually costly to fix among them: Engine, Transmission and drivetrain, Body and frame.
The bar holds the middle half of the complaints that gave a mileage; the dark mark is the middle one. 40 complaints of 257 gave one. Owners file when something fails, so this shows when problems were reported, not how long the cars last. These cars are young, so problems at higher miles have not had time to show.
Brakes2,000 to 8,000 mi
Half of these 16 complaints came between about 2,000 and 8,000 miles, the middle one around 5,000.
Run the VIN at NHTSA to confirm every recall was fixed.
This year has 3 recalls on file. One of them says not to drive the car, or to park it outside, until it is fixed. Recall repairs are usually free at a dealer for the brand. Ask the dealer to confirm before any work is done. Look up a VIN at NHTSA.
Ask the seller for the service records.
Look closely for any work on the brakes. It is the part owners complain about most for this year.
Have a mechanic you trust inspect it before you pay.
Ask them to look at the brakes first.
Look at a vehicle history report.
It can show reported crashes, flood or salvage titles, and mileage that does not add up.
On the test drive, pay attention to the brakes.
Brake firmly somewhere safe. Feel for pulling, grinding or a soft pedal.
Year verdict
Worthy
1.8× a typical year
More owner complaints than a typical year, not enough to mark it down. Still get it inspected.
Confidence: Medium
Close to the Maybe line, so a few complaints either way could tip it.
How the dial was counted
Year verdict: Typical year: 137 complaints, the median of 4 nearby years, leaving out 2024, which was high itself. Each counted over its first 2 years and 10 months from January 2024; this one had 257.
3 Worthy, 1 Maybe, 0 Pass, of 7 years on file
Our take: worth a look.Owners filed more complaints than in a typical year of this model, not enough to mark it down, and one recall says park it outside until it is fixed.
