Toyota Highlander, Toyota Highlander Hybrid, model years 2024 to 2025. Filed by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing and reported to NHTSA on 17 December 2025. 39 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Highlander and Highlander Hybrid vehicles. The third row center seat belt roof anchor may have been installed at an incorrect angle, preventing the seat belt from properly restraining the occupant.
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: 25TA16. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V872 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 25V872 cover?
- Toyota Highlander, Toyota Highlander Hybrid, model years 2024-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Highlander and Highlander Hybrid vehicles. The third row center seat belt roof anchor may have been installed at an incorrect angle, preventing the seat belt from properly restraining the occupant.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A seat belt that does not properly restrain an occupant increases the risk of injury during a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will reinstall the seat belt anchor with a new bolt, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 27, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's number for this recall is 25TA16.
- 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 25TA16, 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 seat belt that does not properly restrain an occupant increases the risk of injury during a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V872 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing |
| System at fault | Seat Belts:Rear/Other:Anchorage |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 December 2025 |
| Model years | 2024-2025 |
| Vehicles named | TOYOTA HIGHLANDER, TOYOTA HIGHLANDER HYBRID |
What the notice says today
The defect
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Highlander and Highlander Hybrid vehicles. The third row center seat belt roof anchor may have been installed at an incorrect angle, preventing the seat belt from properly restraining the occupant.
The consequence
A seat belt that does not properly restrain an occupant increases the risk of injury during a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will reinstall the seat belt anchor with a new bolt, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 27, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's number for this recall is 25TA16.
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 500dfb6f1584418a63af4b21e1381903…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 451 notices in the record whose component field names seat belts. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 48 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 25V872, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v872/
The copy quoted above hashes to 500dfb6f1584418a63af4b21e1381903…. 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.
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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- 26V511: 2025-2026 Camry Hybrid
- 26V437: 2026 Lexus TX Plug-In Hybrid, TX Hybrid, TX, Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid, and Grand Highlander
- 26V393: 2026 Toyota BZ, Lexus RZ, and Subaru Solterra battery electric
- 26V341: 2025 Lexus UX Hybrid, 2024 Lexus GX, Toyota Mirai, and 2024-2025 Toyota Land Cruiser Hybrid
- 26V320: 2024 Tundra
- 26V256: 2025 RAV 4
All 249 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 25V872 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
6ef66acc - Consequence
f45d1865 - 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 25V872 · how the whole register is watched
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