The advent of digital displays has brought with it several benefits, including the ability to show drivers more information, from power usage to navigation, but a new recall from the Hyundai Motor Group proves that digitalization can have drawbacks. The automaker is recalling numerous Genesis luxury vehicles from the 2025 and 2026 model years, says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, because their instrument cluster displays can intermittently reboot and go blank, potentially for 5-10 seconds, depriving drivers of essential information and potentially increasing the risk of a crash. Six different models are named in the recall, with almost 84,000 vehicles affected.
Genesis Luxury Sedans and SUVs Recalled
According to the NHTSA recall report, this issue causes the affected Genesis products to fail certain requirements in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard #101, for Controls and Displays. The recalled models, 83,877 of them, are as follows:
2025-2026 Genesis G802026 Genesis G80 Electrified2026 Genesis GV602026 Genesis GV702026 Genesis GV70 Electrified2025-2026 Genesis GV80
Often, a recall issued by an automotive manufacturing group like the Hyundai Motor Group impacts numerous brands, but in this case, only Genesis products have been recalled. The problem, identified earlier this month, was traced to the affected vehicles’ head unit and integrated monitor. Both HD and analog radio data are written to the same single memory storage location due to overlapping routines in the software. This can result in a data overwrite error, preventing the cluster and display from receiving output signals and eventually leading to a reboot. As of the filing of the report, Hyundai is aware of 237 reports received from September 2024, but no crashes have been reported in the U.S.
What Genesis Owners Need to Know
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Customers can search their VINs on nhtsa.gov, but a remedy is only expected around the middle of March, at which time customers can either go to the dealer for a software update or perform one over the air. In the meantime, Hyundai recommends that owners disable the HD radio feature while driving. It’s an unusual recall, but Genesis has suffered worse; last month, Genesis recalled the G90 for automatically braking when there was no obstacle to avoid colliding with. In that case, it turned out that the Highway Driving Assist feature would falsely detect an object entering the car’s lane, with the issue most common on vehicles painted Savile Silver. In both cases, technology meant to simplify drivers’ lives has added complications, but we’re too far down the rabbit hole to go back, and recalls like these help improve the next generation.
