Toyota Tacoma, Toyota Tacoma Hybrid, model year 2025. Filed by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing and reported to NHTSA on 1 October 2025. 5,960 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2025 Tacoma and Tacoma Hybrid vehicles. The front driveshaft constant-velocity (CV) joint may deform and break.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Toyota's own number for this recall: 25TB11 / 25TA11. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V656 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 25V656 cover?
- Toyota Tacoma, Toyota Tacoma Hybrid, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2025 Tacoma and Tacoma Hybrid vehicles. The front driveshaft constant-velocity (CV) joint may deform and break.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A broken driveshaft can impair steering. Vehicles with full-time 4WD may experience a vehicle rollaway while parked without the parking brake applied. Both scenarios increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and replace both front driveshaft assemblies as necessary, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed August 11, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 25TB11 and 25TA11.
- 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 25TB11 / 25TA11, 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 broken driveshaft can impair steering. Vehicles with full-time 4WD may experience a vehicle rollaway while parked without the parking brake applied. Both scenarios increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V656 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing |
| System at fault | Power Train:Driveline:Driveshaft |
| Reported to NHTSA | 1 October 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | TOYOTA TACOMA, TOYOTA TACOMA HYBRID |
What the notice says today
The defect
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2025 Tacoma and Tacoma Hybrid vehicles. The front driveshaft constant-velocity (CV) joint may deform and break.
The consequence
A broken driveshaft can impair steering. Vehicles with full-time 4WD may experience a vehicle rollaway while parked without the parking brake applied. Both scenarios increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace both front driveshaft assemblies as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed November 14, 2025. Additional letters will be sent once the final remedy is available, anticipated within June 2026. Owners may contact Toyo
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 7b9b50114670273ec702cb929717b877…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 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
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V656, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v656/
The copy quoted above hashes to 7b9b50114670273ec702cb929717b877…. 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 25V656 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
548e6dda - Consequence
97267e67 - 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.
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