Answer
Sep 18, 2025 - 02:36 PM
Those TL, TLe, and LM codes are Hyundai’s internal chassis codes that help ID which generation or version of the Tucson you’ve got:
- LM = 2nd-gen Tucson (2010–2015)
- TL = 3rd-gen Tucson (2015–2020)
- TLe = Also 3rd-gen Tucson, but usually refers to the facelifted version (around 2018–2020), or sometimes regional trims like Australia or Europe
So if your Tucson is a 2016, it's a TL, meaning it falls under the early 3rd-gen. The manual you're looking at should match up — just make sure you're not mixing it up with LM stuff, since the platform and layout are different.
