Recall · 26V049000
Toyota Motor Engineering recalled 3 models over electrical system
141,286
Vehicles covered
3
Models
8
Model years
January 28, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING:SWITCHES/KNOBS/BUTTONS
- The defect
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2023-2024 Prius Prime, 2023-2026 Prius, and 2025-2026 Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicles. Water may enter the rear door switch and cause a short circuit, allowing an unlocked rear door to open unexpectedly.
- What it can cause
- A door that unexpectedly opens while the vehicle is moving increases the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will modify the rear door switch circuits, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed July 13, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 26TB03 and 26TA03. This recall expands and replaces NHTSA recall number 24V274. Vehicles repaired under the previous recall will need to have the new remedy performed.
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 141,286 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 2023 to 2026, 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 electrical system 21 times before this, most recently in September 2025 as 25V636000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 6 of the 8 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 79 complaints with NHTSA, 48 of them before this campaign was filed. 23 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2023, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 25V744000 (back over prevention), 24V548000 (equipment), 24V274000 (electrical system).
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 January 28, 2026 as campaign 26V049000. 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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