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Lexus Rx350, Lexus Rx450 Hybrid, Toyota Land Cruiser, model years 2008 to 2011. Filed by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing and reported to NHTSA on 29 June 2012. 164,601 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Toyota is recalling certain model year 2010 Lexus RX350 and RX450h vehicles, manufactured from November 28, 2008, through September 1, 2010, and model year 2008 through 2011 Toyota Land Cruiser vehicles manufactured from September 1, 2007, through September 5, 2011. In July 2012, Toyota filed a defect report to recall …

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Toyota's own number for this recall: 90L. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 12V305 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.

What owners ask about this recall

Which vehicles does recall 12V305 cover?
Lexus RX350, Lexus RX450 Hybrid, Toyota Land Cruiser, model years 2008-2011.
What is wrong with them?
Toyota is recalling certain model year 2010 Lexus RX350 and RX450h vehicles, manufactured from November 28, 2008, through September 1, 2010, and model year 2008 through 2011 Toyota Land Cruiser vehicles manufactured from September 1, 2007, through September 5, 2011.
What can happen if it is not put right?
A stuck open accelerator pedal may result in very high vehicle speeds and make it difficult to stop the vehicle, which could cause a crash, serious injury or death.
Is there a fix yet?
Toyota and Lexus will notify owners of affected vehicles and dealers will modify or replace the accelerator pedal and replace any driver's floor mat not specified for the vehicle. Owners of the Lexus vehicles were notified during August 2012.
What should I do now?
Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Toyota calls this recall 90L, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.

Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.

What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A stuck open accelerator pedal may result in very high vehicle speeds and make it difficult to stop the vehicle, which could cause a crash, serious injury or death.”

164,601vehicles potentially
affected
3models named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 29 June 2012owners told 3 August 2012today
The defect reached the regulator on 29 June 2012. Owners were written to 35 days later, on 3 August 2012. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign was quicker than most.
Campaign12V305
Filed byToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing
System at faultVehicle Speed Control:Accelerator Pedal
Reported to NHTSA29 June 2012
Model years2008-2011
Vehicles namedLEXUS RX350, LEXUS RX450 HYBRID, TOYOTA LAND CRUISER

What the notice says today

The consequence

A stuck open accelerator pedal may result in very high vehicle speeds and make it difficult to stop the vehicle, which could cause a crash, serious injury or death.

The remedy

Toyota and Lexus will notify owners of affected vehicles and dealers will modify or replace the accelerator pedal and replace any driver's floor mat not specified for the vehicle. Owners of the Lexus vehicles were notified during August 2012. Toyota has not yet provided a notification schedule for the additional Land Cruiser vehicles. Owners may contact Toyota Customer Experience Center at 1-800-331-4331 or Lexus at 1-800-255-3987.

What it said before

This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.

This is one of 93 notices in the record whose component field names vehicle speed control. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 37 days.

Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.

The models named here, across their whole recall history

How to cite this record

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CarsMultiverse, recall 12V305, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/12v305/

The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.

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