Toyota 4runner, Toyota Highlander, Toyota Highlander Hybrid, Toyota Tacoma, model year 2022. Filed by Gulf States Toyota, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 6 May 2022. 661 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Gulf States Toyota, Inc. (GST) is recalling certain 2022 4Runner, Tacoma, Highlander, and Highlander Hybrid vehicles. The load carrying capacity modification labels may not be permanent and can fade, becoming illegible. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety …
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Toyota's own number for this recall: 22R1. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 22V310 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 22V310 cover?
- Toyota 4Runner, Toyota Highlander, Toyota Highlander Hybrid, Toyota Tacoma, model year 2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- Gulf States Toyota, Inc. (GST) is recalling certain 2022 4Runner, Tacoma, Highlander, and Highlander Hybrid vehicles. The load carrying capacity modification labels may not be permanent and can fade, becoming illegible.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An illegible label may allow the vehicle to be overloaded, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. GST will notify owners by mail, including a replacement load carrying capacity modification label for their vehicle and detailed replacement instructions, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 30, 2022. Owners may contact GST customer service at 1-800-444-1074.
- 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 22R1, 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: “An illegible label may allow the vehicle to be overloaded, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 22V310 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Gulf States Toyota, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Other:Labels |
| Reported to NHTSA | 6 May 2022 |
| Model years | 2022-2022 |
| Vehicles named | TOYOTA 4RUNNER, TOYOTA HIGHLANDER, TOYOTA HIGHLANDER HYBRID, TOYOTA TACOMA |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An illegible label may allow the vehicle to be overloaded, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
GST will notify owners by mail, including a replacement load carrying capacity modification label for their vehicle and detailed replacement instructions, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 30, 2022. Owners may contact GST customer service at 1-800-444-1074. GST's number for this recall is 22R1.
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 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Toyota 4runner recalls: 35 US campaigns
- Toyota Highlander recalls: 23 US campaigns
- Toyota Highlander Hybrid recalls: 18 US campaigns
- Toyota Tacoma recalls: 40 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 22V310, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/22v310/
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.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other Toyota notices we hold
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- 24V419: 2022-2024 model year Highlander L and Highlander LE
- 23V485: 2023 Toyota RAV4
- 22V854: 2023 Tundra pickup trucks equipped with non-skid spray-on bed liners
- 19V244: 2019 C-HR, 4Runner, Avalon, Avalon Hybrid, Camry, Camry Hybrid, Highlander, Land Cruiser, Prius, RAV4, Sequoia, Tacoma, Sienna, Tundra and Yaris
- 17V520: 2017 Toyota Highlander and Highlander Hybrid
- 15V240: model year 2015 Toyota Sienna
- 14V429: model year 2013-2014 Toyota Tundra
All 10 Toyota campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 22V310 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
93a6ac1d - Consequence
aa5ea2cd - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
The wording we hold for 22V310 · how the whole register is watched
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