It’s more bad news for automaker Toyota, which announced recently that it would be recalling 22 models because of issues with equipment.
The company said that it would begin notifying customers of the recall next month.
In late July, the company inquired about potentially recalling some of its models due to safety issues. The initial report Toyota received said the number of cards that it would recall would ultimately be determined by vehicles that have GST accessories displaying “inaccurate added weight values on a load carrying capacity modification label.”
According to the report, the vehicles that could be affected by the issue were created between September 22 of 2022 and July 1 of this year. According to that initial report document:
“On the affected vehicles, the weight listed on the load carrying capacity modification label may be higher or lower than the actual total weight of accessories installed. In the worst case, a driver may unknowingly overload a vehicle, which may increase the risk of crash.”
Toyota announced on August 5 that it would be recalling 22 cars that were manufactured in 2023 and 2024 that pose this potential safety threat. Those vehicles include everything from Corolla and Camry sedans to Highlander and 4Runner SUVs, and more.
In total, there are a little more than 33,000 vehicles that are affected by this safety recall, according to the document.
Toyota said it would notify owners via mail. The letter it will send to the owners will include a new modification label that they can put on their vehicle, as well as detailed instructions for how to replace it. These labels will also be available at all Toyota dealers, the company said.
This latest recall is relatively minor compared to the issues Toyota first ran into at the beginning of the summer.
On June 20, the car maker issued a stop-sale in America for two of its three-row SUVs — the Lexus TX and the Toyota Grand Highlander.
At the time, the company said that the curtain airbag on the driver’s side might not deploy if a crash occurs while the driver has their window down. That’s a big problem, of course, seeing as that airbag is supposed to protect the driver’s upper body if a crash happens.
There were about 145,000 vehicles that had already been produced that were affected by the issue. Any current owner of either of those two vehicles were supposed to be notified of the solution by the middle of this month, once Toyota figures it out.
The company said that through the time it issued the stop-sale notice, it had already sold 48,840 of the Grand Highlanders and 18,965 of the TX models.
Both of those vehicles are built out of the same plant, which is located in Princeton, Indiana.
The stop-sale order means that neither of these two vehicles is allowed to be sold, leased or even driven until the defect is completely fixed.
