2026 Toyota Highlander

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the back over prevention › sensing system › camera. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Visibility/Wiper1
000
Back Over Prevention › Sensing System › Camera1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Visibility/Wiper
Filed Aug 29, 2026MD

I own a 2026 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Platinum purchased new. The vehicle has repeatedly exhibited hesitation, shuddering, jerking, and abnormal vibration during acceleration from a stop and the transition from electric propulsion to the gasoline engine. When accelerating from a stop, there can be a noticeable hesitation after pressing the accelerator before the vehicle responds. As the gasoline engine engages, the vehicle sometimes shudders or jerks before accelerating normally. I have also experienced vibration and lurching when the gasoline engine engages or disengages. At times, the condition appears more noticeable with the air conditioning operating. I am concerned this presents a safety issue because the hesitation occurs when accelerating from a stop, when predictable acceleration may be necessary to enter an intersection, cross traffic, or merge into traffic. I reported this condition to an authorized Toyota dealer, but it has not been corrected and continues to occur. I have also experienced a visibility issue involving the windshield and wipers. When the wipers operate, a hazy or filmy appearance becomes visible across the windshield as the blades pass over the glass, temporarily reducing visibility before dissipating. This continues despite attempts to clean the windshield and may involve the windshield surface, wipers, or their interaction. I am concerned because the wipers can temporarily create haze across my field of vision when clear visibility is especially

Back Over Prevention › Sensing System › Camera
Filed May 14, 2026AL

The rear back up camera is grainy the blue lines are digitized and shaky during the day everything is very blurry during the night you cannot see anything really the quality is extremely poor There are also no dynamic turning lines at all and the camera settings buttons are not present

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2021
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
2026 — this page2000Routine
20259400Routine
202442700Routine
2023180900Routine
2022245511Fatalities reported
2021512440Above average
2020314400Above average
2019480310Above average
2018265510Above average
2017265420Above average
2016110310Routine
2015191260Routine
2014135511Fatalities reported
2013206300Above average
2012182230Routine
2011181500Routine
20102161020Above average
2009134950Routine
200840313142Fatalities reported
2007123410Routine
2006277741Fatalities reported
2005224640Above average
2004286532Fatalities reported
2003258210Above average
2002301264Fatalities reported
2001137320Routine
19981000Routine
19971000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.