2025 HYUNDAI SANTA CRUZ Limited

This 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz is listed with a salvage certificate and an auction primary-damage designation of TOP/ROOF. Stage 1 reports that the visible evidence supports this designation: the cab roof is severely crushed and deformed, with extensive windshield damage. The salvage-certificate status itself cannot be confirmed from exterior photographs. The roof has collapsed across the cab, with folded, displaced, and torn sections extending from the windshield area toward the rear roof section. The left and right roof-side areas are deformed, and the cabin opening is exposed. The left A-pillar, roof rail, upper door frame, and adjacent cab-side structure are visibly bent or buckled. The left front door is severely deformed and open at the upper frame. The front windshield is extensively shattered, with dense spiderweb cracking, broken sections, open gaps, and loose glass. The left exterior mirror is displaced, and the left front fender has moderate creasing and deformation around the wheel arch. The listed findings indicate major damage to the roof, windshield surround, upper cabin structure, and left-side body framing. Hidden structural, restraint-system, electrical, mechanical, and water-related conditions cannot be determined from these findings. A comprehensive physical inspection is essential before purchase or repair, including dimensional checks of the cab structure and inspection of the roof, pillars, door openings, airbags, wiring, glass, and vehicle systems. According to the VIN decoding, this is a four-door Santa Cruz pickup in Limited trim with 4WD, a turbocharged 2.5-liter gasoline T-GDI THETA III engine, and a stated U.S. assembly location at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery, Alabama. The decoded equipment includes front and side/curtain airbags, ABS, stability and traction control, adaptive cruise control, forward-collision warning, lane-departure warning, lane-keep assistance, blind-spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, and rear automatic emergency braking. The VIN provided is 5NTJEDDF8SH130630. The supplied recall records list three campaigns for this model and model year: recall 24V877000 concerns console-extension wiring that may allow shifting out of Park without applying the brake; recall 25V809000 concerns potentially improper installation of the side-curtain airbags; and recall 26V316000 concerns front-camera software that may cause premature or unexpected automatic braking. Recall repair completion and current applicability should be verified by VIN with Hyundai or NHTSA before purchase.