2024 HYUNDAI SANTA FE Limited

This 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe is listed by the auction with a Certificate of Salvage and “FRONT END” as the primary damage classification. Stage 1 reports that the visible severe damage clearly supports the unverified front-end primary-damage claim. The salvage-title status itself cannot be confirmed or contradicted from photographs alone. The vehicle has extensive severe collision damage concentrated at the front. The hood is heavily crushed and sharply creased, the near-side front fender is severely crumpled around the headlamp and wheel arch, and the front bumper assembly, grille trim, and one headlamp assembly are missing. The front reinforcement bar is visibly bent. Additional front-end support components are fractured, displaced, or absent, while the radiator and condenser fins are visibly compressed in several areas. The front fascia and wheel-arch trim are broken and separated, with wiring and connectors exposed or hanging in the damaged area. The driver airbag is visibly deployed from the steering wheel. The available findings do not establish the condition of the other airbags, the engine, transmission, suspension, steering, frame or unibody structure, cooling system, electrical systems, or the vehicle’s ability to start and drive. A complete structural, mechanical, electrical, and restraint-system inspection will be required before purchase or repair planning. Minor light-colored scuff marks are also noted on the rear bumper corners. VIN decoding identifies this vehicle as a Limited-trim Santa Fe SUV with four-wheel drive, a 2.5-liter turbocharged gasoline T-GDI Theta III engine, and a U.S. manufacturing location in Montgomery, Alabama. The decoded equipment data lists driver and passenger front airbags, first-, second-, and third-row curtain airbags, side airbags for the first and second rows, and a driver knee airbag; the deployment findings indicate only that the driver airbag is visibly deployed, not the condition of the remaining restraint components. The provided NHTSA recall information lists campaigns 24V246000 for rearview-camera software, 24V529000 for transmission-control software and possible dual-clutch transmission inspection or replacement, 24V561000 for a second-row seat-related airbag wiring harness, 24V843000 for an overhead-console sunshade switch, 25V659000 for the starter terminal cover, 25V808000 for the rearview-camera wiring harness, and 26V218000 for front seat-belt anchors. Repairs are described as free through Hyundai where applicable, but completion status for this specific vehicle is not provided and should be verified by VIN with Hyundai or NHTSA.