Toyota Prius, Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid, Toyota Prius Prime, model years 2023 to 2026. Filed by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing and reported to NHTSA on 28 January 2026. 141,286 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2023-2024 Prius Prime, 2023-2026 Prius, and 2025-2026 Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicles. Water may enter the rear door switch and cause a short circuit, allowing an unlocked rear door to open unexpectedly.
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: 26TB03 / 26TA03. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V049 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 26V049 cover?
- Toyota Prius, Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid, Toyota Prius Prime, model years 2023-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2023-2024 Prius Prime, 2023-2026 Prius, and 2025-2026 Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicles. Water may enter the rear door switch and cause a short circuit, allowing an unlocked rear door to open unexpectedly.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A door that unexpectedly opens while the vehicle is moving increases the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will modify the rear door switch circuits, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed July 13, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 26TB03 and 26TA03. This recall expands and replaces NHTSA recall number 24V274.
- 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 26TB03 / 26TA03, 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 door that unexpectedly opens while the vehicle is moving increases the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V049 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Wiring:Switches/Knobs/Buttons |
| Reported to NHTSA | 28 January 2026 |
| Model years | 2023-2026 |
| Vehicles named | TOYOTA PRIUS, TOYOTA PRIUS PLUG-IN HYBRID, TOYOTA PRIUS PRIME |
What the notice says today
The defect
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2023-2024 Prius Prime, 2023-2026 Prius, and 2025-2026 Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicles. Water may enter the rear door switch and cause a short circuit, allowing an unlocked rear door to open unexpectedly.
The consequence
A door that unexpectedly opens while the vehicle is moving increases the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will modify the rear door switch circuits, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed July 13, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 26TB03 and 26TA03. This recall expands and replaces NHTSA recall number 24V274. Vehicles repaired under the previous recall will need to have the new remedy performed.
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 86499a5e3e2a7a40ec13002fa75aab49…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Toyota Prius recalls: 26 US campaigns
- Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Toyota Prius Prime recalls: 6 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V049, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v049/
The copy quoted above hashes to 86499a5e3e2a7a40ec13002fa75aab49…. 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
- 26V514: 2024 Tacoma Hybrid and 2024-2025 Tacoma
- 26V512: 2026 bZ Woodland
- 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 26V049 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
1ad4de31 - Consequence
0e8d8f82 - 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 26V049 · how the whole register is watched
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