Owners of this vehicle were written to on 4 September 2026. The summary was reworded on 15 September 2026, 11 days later, so the letter described the earlier version. Both versions are shown on this page. Back to the campaign.
This is an independent copy of the official notice, kept so you can see what changed. CarsMultiverse is not a safety authority: to act on this recall, use the authority’s own version at NHTSA, or the official register for your country (linked at the foot of this page).
Between 15 September 2026, 06:04 UTC and 15 September 2026, 12:19 UTC, the text of the defect summary (what is wrong) on campaign 26V128, filed by Toyota, was replaced. The authority publishes one version at a time. This is both.
What changed
1 word was removed and 1 was added.
Removed from the earlier version
Added in the version now published
Both versions in full
As we read it on 15 September 2026
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2021-2024 Highlander and Highlander Hybrid vehicles. The second-row seat backs may fail to lock into position during seat back adjustment.
As we read it on 15 September 2026
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2021-2025 Highlander and Highlander Hybrid vehicles. The second-row seat backs may fail to lock into position during seat back adjustment.
Sealed
The version now published is fingerprinted, and that fingerprint is folded into a single number we publish once a day and cannot quietly recompute. It was fixed before you read this page. Follow the path below and you arrive at the seal we had already published: how the seal works.
The wording we publish for 26V128 is one of 1,485 notices sealed on 17 September 2026.
- Fingerprint of this notice
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- Seal published that day
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Cite this version
CarsMultiverse (A.I.T. Multiverse Consulting Ltd). "Toyota rewrote the defect summary on recall 26V128, 15 September 2026." https://carsmultiverse.com/changed/26v128-summary-2026-09-15/ Sealed 17 September 2026. Notice fingerprint 124e8039ca739d429dad2c1f8e3a576b85735cc5b83c463ae57619006aedad6b. Seal e7c86f595a518db997256229171466dd7bf6a65da9fae34f5cb501b24189fd88.
If this is your car
The description of the fault was reworded. What the manufacturer has undertaken to do about it sits in the remedy on the same notice and is not affected by this edit.
A notice being edited is not by itself evidence of anything. Wording is corrected for ordinary reasons as well as significant ones, and we record that it changed without claiming to know why.
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How we know
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