The production of 2024 Toyota Grand Highlander and the Lexus TX will be stopped due to an issue in the front corner of the curtain airbag that had failed in a crash test by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. This airbag fails to stay inside the vehicle if certain conditions are met when the window on the driver’s side is open. Toyota acted quickly. It recalled the concerned vehicles and stopped the sales of those vehicles.
Since then, the flaw was corrected with the new redesign of the airbag anchoring system. Once that new design has passed all safety tests, Toyota said it will begin replacing the affected models immediately and will continue sales shortly. The stop-sale began in June 2023; however, owners can expect to see their 2024 models start trickling into dealerships by the end of October. Toyota and Lexus dealers will repair the airbags free for the owner.
Two flagship models for the company are the Toyota Grand Highlander and the Lexus TX, both of which sport three rows of seats and all the frills families want. So resuming sales on these SUVs bodes very well for Toyota. This will bode very well for Toyota as the company has been positioning itself for success in a region in which demand continues to grow for midsize and large SUVs. Both have been highly successful with state-of-the-art technologies and security features and overall reliability, so resumed production will be enough to revitalize the interest of customers in these cars.
Affected customers should be contacted through dealers for getting serviced so that they become road-worthy and then can be released back onto the roads.
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