Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing: Air Bags › Side/Window
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing reported this defect to federal regulators on Feb 5, 2016 and put the number of vehicles at risk at 320,409. The repair is free for as long as the recall stands.
The defect
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain model year 2003-2006 Toyota Land Cruiser and Lexus LX470, 2005-2006 Toyota Tundra and Sequoia, 2004-2006 Toyota 4Runner and Lexus GX470 vehicles equipped with side curtain-shield-air bags. The affected vehicles have an air bag control module that may be improperly programmed, causing the side curtain-shield-air bags to deploy inadvertently.
The risk
If the side curtain-shield-air bags deploy unexpectedly, it can increase the risk of occupant injury.
The remedy
Toyota will notify owners, and dealers will replace the air bag control module with one that has improved programming, free of charge. The recall began on December 1, 2016. Owners may contact Toyota customer service at 1-888-271-9371. Toyota's number for this recall is G0C and GLB.
18 model years covered
Newest first| Vehicle | Complaints | Recalls | Fires | Crashes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 Lexus GX470 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2006 Lexus LX470 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 Toyota 4Runner | 381 | 5 | 3 | 28 |
| 2006 Toyota Land Cruiser | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 Toyota Sequoia | 202 | 10 | 0 | 7 |
| 2006 Toyota Tundra | 545 | 13 | 0 | 38 |
| 2005 Lexus GX470 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2005 Lexus LX470 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 Toyota 4Runner | 425 | 5 | 3 | 19 |
| 2005 Toyota Land Cruiser | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 Toyota Sequoia | 352 | 11 | 1 | 7 |
| 2005 Toyota Tundra | 377 | 14 | 3 | 33 |
| 2004 Lexus GX470 | 65 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 2004 Lexus LX470 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2004 Toyota 4Runner | 678 | 2 | 3 | 28 |
| 2004 Toyota Land Cruiser | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 Lexus LX470 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 Toyota Land Cruiser | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What this page is, and what to do next
A recall is not an opinion. It is a Part 573 report a manufacturer is required by federal law to file once it decides a defect poses an unreasonable risk to safety, and it commits them to repairing the vehicle at no cost to the owner. The three passages above are the manufacturer’s own wording as published by NHTSA.
This page describes the campaign. It cannot tell you whether one particular car has already been through the shop — that is tracked by VIN, and only the manufacturer knows it. Check yours at nhtsa.gov/recalls or with a franchised dealer, quoting campaign number 16V065000.
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