Recall · 23V142000
Toyota Motor Engineering recalled 2 models over structure
130,266
Vehicles covered
2
Models
4
Model years
March 3, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY
- The defect
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2022-2023 Tundra and Tundra Hybrid vehicles that may be equipped with a Toyota genuine accessory tonneau cover. The tonneau cover attachment joints may come loose and allow the cover to detach.
- What it can cause
- A tonneau cover that detaches while driving can become a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Owners of the subject vehicles will be notified by first class mail to return their vehicles to a Toyota dealer. Dealer will install new hardware (bolts, spacers, washers, nuts, rubber washers and cotter pins) to the existing bracket and tonneau cover. If the tonneau cover has tears or splits at the mounting holes to the extent that new hardware cannot be installed, it will be replaced with a new tonneau cover and hardware. Owners will receive a notice once the remedy becomes available. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's number for this recall is 23TB03/23TA03.
- 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 130,266 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 93% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2022 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Toyota vehicles have been recalled over the structure 12 times before this, most recently in November 2017 as 17V763000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 815 complaints with NHTSA, 34 of them before this campaign was filed. 25 of those name the structure, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2022, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 16 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V767000 (engine and engine cooling), 25V657000 (back over prevention), 25V322000 (exterior lighting), 24V548000 (equipment).
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 March 3, 2023 as campaign 23V142000. 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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