2025 HYUNDAI PALISADE XRT

This 2025 Hyundai Palisade XRT is listed with a salvage certificate, and the auction’s primary damage designation is “SIDE.” Stage 1 reports that the visible extensive damage to the left side supports the “SIDE” damage code. However, the legal or administrative status represented by the salvage certificate cannot be confirmed from the photos. The left rear door has severe damage, including extensive deep deformation, torn sections, sharp creases, crushed areas, and a large opening in the outer skin. Internal door components are exposed. The left rear quarter panel is heavily buckled and torn around the rear-door edge and wheel arch, with exposed inner components and irregular openings. The lower left rocker panel and side sill covering are also severely broken and displaced, exposing mounting hardware and inner body components. A side curtain airbag is visibly deployed or hanging from the right-side roof area inside the rear passenger compartment. The condition of other airbags, restraints, structural components, suspension, wheel alignment, electrical systems, and mechanical systems cannot be determined from the supplied findings. A thorough in-person inspection will be required, including assessment of the underlying body structure and the complete airbag and restraint systems. The VIN decodes as a 2025 Hyundai Palisade SUV/MPV manufactured by Hyundai Motor Co. in South Korea. It is identified as an XRT with front-wheel drive (4x2), a 3.8-liter gasoline GDI Lambda II engine, and standard equipment including curtain airbags for the first, second, and third rows, front and side airbags, electronic stability control, forward-collision warning, lane-keeping and lane-departure systems, blind-spot monitoring, and rear automatic emergency braking. The supplied NHTSA recall information lists three recalls applicable to 2025 Palisade vehicles: an electric oil-pump controller issue that may cause an electrical short and fire, rear seat-belt buckle assemblies that may fail to latch, and a side-curtain-airbag issue affecting third-row occupants. Recall remedy status for this vehicle should be verified by VIN before purchase, and any outstanding repairs should be completed by an authorized Hyundai dealer.