Recall · 25V577000
Toyota Motor Engineering recalled 3 models over visibility
94,320
Vehicles covered
3
Models
9
Model years
September 4, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
VISIBILITY:DEFROSTER/DEFOGGER/HVAC SYSTEM
- The defect
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2023-2025 bZ4X, Lexus RZ, and Subaru Solterra vehicles. During certain HVAC system faults, such as electrical compressor failure, the defroster and defogger system may become inoperative.
- What it can cause
- An inoperative defroster and defogger system can decrease the driver's visibility under certain driving conditions, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the HVAC control ECU software, free of charge. Dealers will also inspect the electrical compressor, and replace it, if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 17, 2025. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 25TB07 and 25TA07. Lexus' numbers for this recall are 25LB04 and 25LA04. Subaru's number for this recall is WRD-25.
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 94,320 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 92% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2023 to 2025, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Subaru vehicles have been recalled over the visibility 6 times before this, most recently in September 2022 as 22V712000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 7 of the 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 119 complaints with NHTSA, 68 of them before this campaign was filed. 11 of those name the visibility, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in December 2022, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 25V744000 (back over prevention), 24V548000 (equipment), 23V064000 (wheels), 22V444000 (wheels).
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 4, 2025 as campaign 25V577000. 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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