2022 HYUNDAI VENUE SEL & Limited

The auction records list this 2022 Hyundai Venue as having a salvage title and SIDE as the primary damage classification. The visible extensive damage to the left side supports the stated SIDE classification. However, the salvage-title status cannot be confirmed from the available exterior and interior photographs alone. The left front and left rear doors are severely crushed, with deep dents, sharp creases, and extensive deformation across the door skins. The damage includes distortion around the rear-door handle and lower edge. The left side sill beneath the doors is severely deformed, with exposed bare metal and an irregular lower edge. The plastic wheel-arch molding ahead of and above the left rear wheel is missing, with its attachment points exposed. A side-curtain airbag is visibly deployed and hanging from the left roofline in the passenger compartment. The instrument cluster displays the message, “Check Blind-Spot Collision Warning (BCW) system,” and several warning indicators are illuminated. The vehicle should therefore receive a full inspection of the body structure, doors, side-impact protection, airbag and seat-belt restraint systems, wiring, blind-spot warning system, and related electronic modules before purchase or return to service. VIN decoding identifies the vehicle as a South Korea-built 2022 Hyundai Venue wagon with front-wheel drive, a 1.6-liter gasoline engine, and a continuously variable transmission. The decoded safety equipment includes front, side, and first- and second-row curtain airbags, as well as blind-spot monitoring and rear cross-traffic alert. An official NHTSA recall, campaign 22V458000, applies to certain 2020–2022 Hyundai Venue vehicles. The front seat-belt pretensioners may explode during deployment and project metal fragments into the passenger compartment. Hyundai’s remedy is to secure the pretensioners with a cap, free of charge. Recall completion should be verified by an authorized Hyundai dealer, particularly given the visible collision and restraint-system damage.