Recall · 26V203000
Toyota Motor Engineering recalled the TOYOTA Corolla Cross Hybrid over back over prevention
73,528
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
March 31, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
BACK OVER PREVENTION:WARNINGS:EXTERNAL/PEDESTRIAN ALERT
- The defect
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2023-2025 Corolla Cross Hybrid vehicles. The vehicles may fail to make sufficient pedestrian warning sounds when in reverse. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 141, "Minimum Sound Requirements for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles."
- What it can cause
- Insufficient pedestrian warning sounds may fail to alert pedestrians of a reversing vehicle, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the software for the pedestrian warning sounds, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed June 2, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the final remedy is available. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 26TB08 and 26TA08.
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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| ToyotaCorolla Cross Hybrid | 2023 to 2025 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 73,528 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 91% 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 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Toyota vehicles have been recalled over the back over prevention 7 times before this, most recently in January 2026 as 26V038000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 1 of the 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 6 complaints with NHTSA, 6 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in April 2024, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 25V040000 (steering), 24V708000 (service brakes, electric), 24V548000 (equipment), 23V480000 (steering).
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 31, 2026 as campaign 26V203000. 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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