Joyson Safety Systems Curtain Shield Air Bag, model year 9999. Filed by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing and reported to NHTSA on 29 July 2026. 2,381 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain side curtain air bag (CSA) assemblies sold as replacement parts for 2016-2023 Toyota Tacoma vehicles. The side curtain air bag may have been improperly secured to its mounting bracket, causing an improper air bag deployment.
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: 26TK02 / 26TH02. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26E050 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 26E050 cover?
- Joyson Safety Systems Curtain Shield Air Bag.
- What is wrong with them?
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain side curtain air bag (CSA) assemblies sold as replacement parts for 2016-2023 Toyota Tacoma vehicles. The side curtain air bag may have been improperly secured to its mounting bracket, causing an improper air bag deployment.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Improper air bag deployment can increase the risk of injury during a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Dealers will inspect and replace the CSA assemblies, as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk are expected to be mailed September 25, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the final remedy is available, anticipated by Quarter 4 of 2026.
- 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 26TK02 / 26TH02, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
- Has this notice changed since it was announced?
- Yes. The remedy was reworded on 17 Sep 2026. Both versions are on this page, with the date each was read.
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: “Improper air bag deployment can increase the risk of injury during a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26E050 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Side/Window:Curtain |
| Reported to NHTSA | 29 July 2026 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | JOYSON SAFETY SYSTEMS CURTAIN SHIELD AIR BAG |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Improper air bag deployment can increase the risk of injury during a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the CSA assemblies, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 13, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 26TK02 and 26TH02.
What it said before
This notice has been edited since it was first published. NHTSA shows only the current version. Both are below, read straight from the agency at the times shown, with the words that moved marked.
The remedy was rewritten
25 words added, 3 removed. The notice grew from 275 to 402 characters.
Dealers will inspect and replace the CSA assemblies, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 13, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 26TK02 and 26TH02.
Dealers will inspect and replace the CSA assemblies, as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk are expected to be mailed September 25, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the final remedy is available, anticipated by Quarter 4 of 2026. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 26TK02 and 26TH02.
Nothing above is our paraphrase. Both columns are the agency’s own text; only the marking is ours.
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 . The remedy was last reworded on , and both versions are held.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26E050, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26e050/
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.
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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 26E050 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8b39e6a6 - Consequence
6819a280 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026 and have caught it being edited 1 time since.
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