Recall · 21V688000
Toyota Motor Engineering recalled the TOYOTA Tundra over exterior lighting
158,489
Vehicles covered
1
Model
4
Model years
September 2, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS
- The defect
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2018-2021 Tundra vehicles. The headlight electrical circuits may power the high and low beams simultaneously, which could overheat the electrical connector.
- What it can cause
- An overheated electrical connector can increase the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will modify the engine wire harness assembly and replace any damaged bulb, bulb connector, and/or headlight assembly as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 25, 2022. Owners may contact Toyota customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 21TB06 and 21TA06.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 158,489 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 94% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Toyota vehicles have been recalled over the exterior lighting 10 times before this, most recently in November 2020 as 20V698000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 240 complaints with NHTSA, 93 of them before this campaign was filed. 14 of those name the exterior lighting, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in December 2017, 3 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 21V920000 (steering), 20V682000 (fuel system, gasoline), 20V410000 (exterior lighting), 20V012000 (fuel system, gasoline).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing with NHTSA on September 2, 2021 as campaign 21V688000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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