Toyota and its Lexus luxury brand have issued a recall and ordered dealerships to stop selling the 2024 Toyota Grand Highlander and Lexus TX SUVs until they’ve had a chance to complete urgent repairs. Once dealers have fixed all the vehicles on their lots, they’ll resume selling the cars.
Toyota says the side curtain airbags on the driver’s side of the SUVs may not deploy as intended if the window is down. That could contribute to injuries in an accident.
The company says it is still “developing a remedy for this issue,” so it isn’t clear how dealers will fix it. But when engineers have a solution, dealerships will install it for free.
In the meantime, we recommend that owners not drive those cars with the driver’s side window down.
Factory Has Paused Building Both
Shoppers interested in a Lexus TX or Toyota Grand Highlander may have to wait to buy one. Both SUVs are already in short supply on dealer lots, and Automotive News reports that factories have stopped building them while engineers work on an airbag safety solution.
By law, dealers never charge for recall repairs.
Automakers recall many cars to fix safety defects, sometimes more than once. While automakers try to reach every owner to ask them to bring the vehicle in for repair, they rarely get them all. Millions of vehicles on American roads need free recall repairs. To find out if your car is one of them, check the easy VIN tool at our recall center.
