PlainRecordsTOYOTA COROLLA CROSS HYBRID: BACK OVER PREVENTION: WARNINGS
- What can happen
- Insufficient pedestrian warning sounds may fail to alert pedestrians of a reversing vehicle, increasing the risk of injury.
- Remedy
- Dealers will update the software for the pedestrian warning sounds, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed September 1, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 26TB08 and 26TA08.
- Potentially affected
- 73528
Completion rate: 29.7% of the 73,528 vehicles potentially affected, the share the maker has reported to NHTSA as remedied, as listed in NHTSA's recalls data (updated Nov. 12, 2026). A recall protects people only when the repair is done.
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- Date (report received by NHTSA)
- March 31, 2026
- Filed by
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing
- Vehicles
- TOYOTA COROLLA CROSS HYBRID (2023, 2024, 2025)
- Manufacturer of the vehicles
- Toyota Motor Corporation
- Component
- BACK OVER PREVENTION › WARNINGS › EXTERNAL/PEDESTRIAN ALERT
- Description of the defect
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2023-2025 Corolla Cross Hybrid vehicles. The vehicles may fail to make sufficient pedestrian warning sounds when in reverse. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 141, "Minimum Sound Requirements for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles."
- Potentially affected
- 73528
- What can happen
- Insufficient pedestrian warning sounds may fail to alert pedestrians of a reversing vehicle, increasing the risk of injury.
- Remedy
- Dealers will update the software for the pedestrian warning sounds, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed September 1, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's numbers for this recall are 26TB08 and 26TA08.
- Owner notification date
- Aug. 27, 2026
- Manufacturer campaign number
- 26TB08 / 26TA08
- Recall type
- V (vehicle)
- FMVSS
- 141
- Influenced by
- MFR
- Manufacturer's component
- Vehicle Approaching Speaker Controller · Vehicle Approaching Speaker ECU · 86572-16070; Vehicle Approaching Speaker Controller · Vehicle Approaching Speaker ECU · 86572-16080
- Recall number
- 26V203000
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What the notice says to do (the remedy, in its words)
“Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2023-2025 Corolla Cross Hybrid vehicles. The vehicles may fail to make sufficient pedestrian warning sounds when in reverse. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 141, "Minimum Sound Requirements for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles."”TOYOTA BACK OVER PREVENTION:WARNINGS:EXTERNAL/PEDESTRIAN ALERT recall, NHTSA recall record, 2026-03-31. The caption and the remedy steps are the record's own words.
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This recall among the others
- TOYOTA: 57 other recalls or notices on this site in the three years before this one (from April 1, 2023).
Counted from the agency records on this site, as on Statistics: a recall event once, by its first notice.
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Cite this record
NHTSA recall record 26V203000, March 31, 2026. PlainRecords' title: "TOYOTA COROLLA CROSS HYBRID: BACK OVER PREVENTION: WARNINGS." PlainRecords, https://plainrecords.com/recall/vehicle/26v203000/ (as of the day it was built).At each build a sample of records from each source is compared with the agency's published file and the page; every correction is public. Drawings are chosen by software that reads the record. Built daily. How we check · Corrections