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Recall 26V438: the remedy was rewritten, 5 September 2026

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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 5 September 2026, 05:02 UTC and 5 September 2026, 11:16 UTC, the text of the remedy (what the manufacturer will do about it) on campaign 26V438 was replaced. The authority publishes one version at a time. This is both.

What changed

5 words were removed and 2 were added.

Removed from the earlier version

Dealers will replace the engine starter, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed on August 28, 2026. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417 or Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning August 28, 2026. This recall is an expansion of previous NHTSA recall 26V056.

Added in the version now published

Dealers will replace the engine starter, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on August 31, 2026. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417 or Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning August 28, 2026. This recall is an expansion of previous NHTSA recall 26V056.

Both versions in full

As we read it on 5 September 2026

Dealers will replace the engine starter, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed on August 28, 2026. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417 or Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning August 28, 2026. This recall is an expansion of previous NHTSA recall 26V056.

As we read it on 5 September 2026

Dealers will replace the engine starter, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on August 31, 2026. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417 or Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning August 28, 2026. This recall is an expansion of previous NHTSA recall 26V056.

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 26V438 is one of 1,485 notices sealed on 17 September 2026.

Fingerprint of this notice
23ff c29d 50f3 136a a5c8 1b7d 5980 601f a363 5d5a b382 2332 f37e ce47 fa69 4011
Position in that day’s seal
1,370 of 1,485
Seal published that day
e7c8 6f59 5a51 8db9 9725 6229 1714 66dd 7bf6 a65d a9fa e34f 5cb5 01b2 4189 fd88

This notice still matches the seal published on that date.

The audit path, 11 steps
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  11. left 04f2 e034 cece a63f 7762 3ae4 4117 6110 e605 993f a623 6574 5a4f a42b 66c0 a231

Cite this version

CarsMultiverse (A.I.T. Multiverse Consulting Ltd). "Recall 26V438: the remedy was rewritten, 5 September 2026." https://carsmultiverse.com/changed/26v438-remedy-2026-09-05/ Sealed 17 September 2026. Notice fingerprint 23ffc29d50f3136aa5c81b7d5980601fa3635d5ab3822332f37ece47fa694011. Seal e7c86f595a518db997256229171466dd7bf6a65da9fae34f5cb501b24189fd88.

If this is your car

The fix itself was reworded. If this recall has already been carried out on your vehicle, it was carried out to whatever the instruction said at the time. If it has not been, book it - the repair is free either way.

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

We re-read the wording of every campaign we hold on a rolling cycle and keep a dated copy with a SHA-256 of the text. This page exists because the hash we recorded on 5 September 2026 no longer matched the one we took on 5 September 2026. Nothing here is an interpretation of what the manufacturer meant; it is the difference between two files.

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