Recall · 26V256000
Toyota Motor Engineering recalled the TOYOTA RAV4 over seats
4
Vehicles covered
1
Model
1
Model years
April 22, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
SEATS:CRITICAL FASTENERS
- The defect
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2025 RAV 4 vehicles. The front seat brackets for the seat rails may be welded improperly.
- What it can cause
- Improperly welded seat brackets can prevent the seat from adequately restraining an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and repair the seat bracket welds as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 19, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 26TB09 and 26TA09.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ToyotaRAV4 | 2025 | 2025 |
How this campaign compares
At 4 vehicles this is a small campaign: 96% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2025, 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 seats 11 times before this, most recently in March 2026 as 26V128000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 1 model year the campaign names. Their owners have filed 81 complaints with NHTSA, 50 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2025, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 25V744000 (back over prevention), 25V595000 (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 April 22, 2026 as campaign 26V256000. 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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