Lexus Es, Lexus Es Hybrid, Lexus Rx, Lexus Rx Hybrid, Toyota Avalon, Toyota Avalon Hybrid, model years 2020 to 2022. Filed by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing and reported to NHTSA on 20 December 2023. 999,901 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Avalon, Avalon Hybrid, Corolla, Highlander, Highlander Hybrid, RAV4, RAV4 Hybrid, Lexus ES350, Lexus RX350, Lexus RX450H, 2021 Sienna Hybrid, Lexus ES250, 2020-2022 Camry, Camry Hybrid, and ES300H vehicles. A short circuit may develop in …
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 23V865 cover?
- Lexus Es, Lexus Es Hybrid, Lexus RX, Lexus RX Hybrid, Toyota Avalon, Toyota Avalon Hybrid, Toyota Camry, Toyota Camry Hybrid, model years 2020-2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Avalon, Avalon Hybrid, Corolla, Highlander, Highlander Hybrid, RAV4, RAV4 Hybrid, Lexus ES350, Lexus RX350, Lexus RX450H, 2021 Sienna Hybrid, Lexus ES250, 2020-2022 Camry, Camry Hybrid, and ES300H vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An air bag that does not deploy during a crash increases the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Dealers will inspect and replace the sensor as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed in February 2024. Some final remedy owner letters were mailed October 31, 2024. Letters will continue to be mailed in phases through January 2026.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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 air bag that does not deploy during a crash increases the risk of injury.”
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in the notice
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| Campaign | 23V865 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Sensor:Occupant Classification |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 December 2023 |
| Model years | 2020-2022 |
| Vehicles named | LEXUS ES, LEXUS ES HYBRID, LEXUS RX, LEXUS RX HYBRID, TOYOTA AVALON, TOYOTA AVALON HYBRID, TOYOTA CAMRY, TOYOTA CAMRY HYBRID, TOYOTA COROLLA, TOYOTA HIGHLANDER, TOYOTA HIGHLANDER HYBRID, TOYOTA RAV4, TOYOTA RAV4 HYBRID, TOYOTA SIENNA HYBRID |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An air bag that does not deploy during a crash increases the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the sensor as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed in February 2024. Some final remedy owner letters were mailed October 31, 2024. Letters will continue to be mailed in phases through January 2026. Owners may contact Toyota customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's number for this recall is 23TB15/23TA15 Lexus 23LB03/23LA03.
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 846 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Lexus Es recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Lexus Es Hybrid recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Lexus RX recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Lexus RX Hybrid recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Toyota Avalon recalls: 23 US campaigns
- Toyota Avalon Hybrid recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Toyota Camry recalls: 32 US campaigns
- Toyota Camry Hybrid recalls: 17 US campaigns
- Toyota Corolla recalls: 31 US campaigns
- Toyota Highlander recalls: 23 US campaigns
- Toyota Highlander Hybrid recalls: 18 US campaigns
- Toyota Rav4 recalls: 39 US campaigns
- Toyota Rav4 Hybrid recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Toyota Sienna Hybrid recalls: 8 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 23V865, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v865/
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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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 23V865 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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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.
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