Lexus Rz, Subaru Solterra, Toyota Bz4x, model years 2023 to 2025. Filed by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing and reported to NHTSA on 4 September 2025. 94,320 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2023-2025 bZ4X, Lexus RZ, and Subaru Solterra vehicles. During certain HVAC system faults, such as electrical compressor failure, the defroster and defogger system may become inoperative.
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 25V577 cover?
- Lexus RZ, Subaru Solterra, Toyota Bz4X, model years 2023-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2023-2025 bZ4X, Lexus RZ, and Subaru Solterra vehicles. During certain HVAC system faults, such as electrical compressor failure, the defroster and defogger system may become inoperative.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An inoperative defroster and defogger system can decrease the driver's visibility under certain driving conditions, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will update the HVAC control ECU software, free of charge. Dealers will also inspect the electrical compressor, and replace it, if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 17, 2025. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331.
- 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 inoperative defroster and defogger system can decrease the driver's visibility under certain driving conditions, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V577 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing |
| System at fault | Visibility:Defroster/Defogger/HVAC System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 4 September 2025 |
| Model years | 2023-2025 |
| Vehicles named | LEXUS RZ, SUBARU SOLTERRA, TOYOTA BZ4X |
What the notice says today
The defect
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2023-2025 bZ4X, Lexus RZ, and Subaru Solterra vehicles. During certain HVAC system faults, such as electrical compressor failure, the defroster and defogger system may become inoperative.
The consequence
An inoperative defroster and defogger system can decrease the driver's visibility under certain driving conditions, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will update the HVAC control ECU software, free of charge. Dealers will also inspect the electrical compressor, and replace it, if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 17, 2025. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 25TB07 and 25TA07. Lexus' numbers for this recall are 25LB04 and 25LA04. Subaru's number for this recall is WRD-25.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 77cc633883d8ba9ecf3c261ad8e3d3f4…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 463 notices in the record whose component field names visibility. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 34 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2025456, recorded 4 September 2025 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on WRD25, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Lexus RZ recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Subaru Solterra recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Toyota Bz4x recalls: 4 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 25V577, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v577/
The copy quoted above hashes to 77cc633883d8ba9ecf3c261ad8e3d3f4…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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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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 25V577 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
5381eece - Consequence
57ae5814 - 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 25V577 · how the whole register is watched
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