Toyota Recalls 127,000 More Turbocharged V6 Engines Because They Keep Grenading Themselves

You don't bargain a Toyota truck if you want nan latest, astir cutting-edge features, and you decidedly don't bargain 1 if you're looking to prevention money. You bargain them because they're reliable and will past for good complete a decade, moreover if you don't do a awesome occupation taking attraction of them. Which is why it's been truthful frustrating for owners who bought Toyotas equipped pinch its caller twin-turbo V6 to tally into reliability issues. And now, Toyota's conscionable recalled different 127,000 trucks and SUVs because of those aforesaid reliability issues.

The 127,000-vehicle callback covers nan 2022-2024 Toyota Tundra, 2022-2024 Lexus LX, and 2024 Lexus GX. And for those of you who person been pursuing on astatine home, nan charismatic logic for nan callback will decidedly sound familiar:

There is simply a anticipation that definite machining debris whitethorn not person been cleared from nan motor erstwhile it was produced. In nan progressive vehicles, this tin lead to imaginable motor knocking, motor unsmooth running, motor nary start, and/or a nonaccomplishment of motive power. A nonaccomplishment of motive powerfulness while driving astatine higher speeds tin summation nan consequence of a crash.

Yeah, that's what those of america successful nan business telephone "not ideal." And you could besides astir apt opportunity nan aforesaid astir nan adjacent statement successful nan property release, which reads, "Toyota is presently processing nan remedy for this issue." Sadly, arsenic you whitethorn person figured retired successful therapy, it's a batch easier to place a problem than it is to travel up pinch a solution. But hey, location are worse things to person than a free replacement engine. If you bought nan hybrid version, your motortruck isn't portion of this peculiar recall, astatine least.

Owners of affected vehicles should expect to person a missive astir nan callback by January 2026, although, if you don't want to hold for your letter, you tin ever plug your VIN into NHTSA's callback site.

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As antecedently mentioned, this isn't nan first clip Toyota has had to callback nan twin-turbo V6 that replaced its aged people aspirated V8. Nor is it nan first clip owners person reported having issues pinch their caller engines. Production of nan redesigned Toyota Tundra and Lexus LX began successful precocious 2021, pinch the redesigned Lexus GX following astir a twelvemonth later. It wasn't agelong earlier immoderate owners' engines began failing — and not astatine 500,000 miles aliases whenever you mightiness reasonably expect a Toyota motor to commencement having problems. 

It took until 2024 for Toyota to yet fig retired what was going on, and successful June of that year, it recalled astir 102,000 vehicles equipped pinch nan problematic engine. Back then, they besides didn't person a hole for nan issue, truthful Toyota took nan deed and decided to simply replace nan engines successful immoderate of nan affected vehicles. It astir apt costs Toyota a mini luck to do that, but connected nan different hand, conscionable deliberation really overmuch it would costs Toyota successful nan agelong tally if its vehicles mislaid their estimation for offering bulletproof reliability. 

And it's not for illustration nan caller V6 was nan only reliability problem Toyota has tally into recently, either. Toyota besides had to callback 381,000 Tacomas built betwixt 2022 and 2023 because nan rear axles mightiness break, and astatine astir nan aforesaid time, it had to recall 281,663 Tundras, Sequoias and Lexus LX600s owed to transmission problems. Speaking of transmission problems, nan precocious redesigned Tacoma besides had transmission problems that were bad capable for nan Tacoma to get a transmission callback of its own. 

Want to cognize who didn't person to woody pinch immoderate transmission recalls, though? The Toyota Tacoma owners who chose nan manual transmission option. Take that, automatic transmissions and your stupid superior substance economy.