- Toyota issued a stop-sale and recall for the 2024 Grand Highlander and Lexus TX
- The difficulty stems from the driver-side curtain airbag
- An answer does not exist, and Toyota expects a treatment by mid-August
Customers trying to purchase the 2024 Toyota Grand Highlander hybrid or Lexus TX hybrid cannot. A stop-sale has been issued together with a recall for roughly 145,000 of those autos, each hybrid and non-hybrid fashions.
The perpetrator is the driver-side curtain airbag. Toyota stated the protection machine won’t deploy as meant within the occasion of a crash. Particularly, the entrance portion of the curtain airbag won’t unroll as meant.
A repair is within the works, however doesn’t exist as of in the present day. Toyota estimates the answer might be prepared by mid-August.
Till a repair is developed all 2024 Toyota Grand Highlanders and Lexus TXs sitting on vendor heaps can’t be offered. Manufacturing of those two fashions within the automaker’s Princeton, Indiana plant has been halted.
House owners of the 2024 Toyota Grand Highlander and Lexus TX should not being requested to park their autos, however suggested to drive with their driver’s window rolled up always to make sure the curtain airbag will deploy correctly within the occasion of an accident.
Toyota stated if the motive force’s window is down and a crash ought to happen, the automobile will not meet sure ejection headform displacement necessities.
The recall has not been posted on the NHTSA’s web site but. Toyota stated it is going to notify homeowners by the center of August. Clients searching for extra info can contact Toyota buyer help at 1-800-331-4331 or Lexus buyer help at 1-800-255-3987 or go to the manufacturers’ recall web site right here.
