Lexus Tx, Lexus Tx Hybrid, Lexus Tx Plug-In Hybrid, Toyota Grand Highlander, Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid, model year 2026. Filed by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing and reported to NHTSA on 8 July 2026. 5,408 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2026 Lexus TX Plug-In Hybrid, TX Hybrid, TX, Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid, and Grand Highlander vehicles. The rear axle carriers may have been manufactured with insufficient material strength and could 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: 26TB13 26TA13 26LB08. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V437 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 26V437 cover?
- Lexus TX, Lexus TX Hybrid, Lexus TX Plug-In Hybrid, Toyota Grand Highlander, Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2026 Lexus TX Plug-In Hybrid, TX Hybrid, TX, Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid, and Grand Highlander vehicles. The rear axle carriers may have been manufactured with insufficient material strength and could break.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A broken rear axle carrier can cause a sudden loss of vehicle stability and control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect the rear axle carrier sub-assembly code, and replace the sub-assemblies as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 8, 2026. 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. Toyota calls this recall 26TB13 26TA13 26LB08, 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 11 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.
Owners of this vehicle were written to on 3 September 2026. The remedy was reworded on 11 September 2026, 8 days later, so the letter described the earlier version. Read both versions.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A broken rear axle carrier can cause a sudden loss of vehicle stability and control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V437 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing |
| System at fault | Power Train:Axle Assembly |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | LEXUS TX, LEXUS TX HYBRID, LEXUS TX PLUG-IN HYBRID, TOYOTA GRAND HIGHLANDER, TOYOTA GRAND HIGHLANDER HYBRID |
What the notice says today
The defect
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2026 Lexus TX Plug-In Hybrid, TX Hybrid, TX, Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid, and Grand Highlander vehicles. The rear axle carriers may have been manufactured with insufficient material strength and could break.
The consequence
A broken rear axle carrier can cause a sudden loss of vehicle stability and control, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect the rear axle carrier sub-assembly code, and replace the sub-assemblies as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 8, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 26TB13, 26TA13, 26LB08, and 26LA08.
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
3 words added, 6 removed. The notice grew from 329 to 317 characters.
Dealers will inspect the rear axle carrier sub-assembly code, and replace the sub-assemblies as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 23, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 26TB13, 26TA13, 26LB08, and 26LA08.
Dealers will inspect the rear axle carrier sub-assembly code, and replace the sub-assemblies as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 8, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 26TB13, 26TA13, 26LB08, and 26LA08.
Nothing above is our paraphrase. Both columns are the agency’s own text; only the marking is ours.
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
- Lexus TX recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Lexus TX Hybrid recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Toyota Grand Highlander recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid recalls: 5 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 26V437, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v437/
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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 26V437 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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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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