Toyota announced a safety recall for more than 75,000 of its new Tacomas in the U.S. after discovering an issue with the child seat anchors.
About 75,400 Toyota Tacomas have a faulty design in their child safety seat anchors, the automaker announced on July 21. Affected 2022-2023 models of Toyota’s popular truck could display faulty child seat anchors that may fail in a crash, the company said.
The upper child seat anchors of the trucks “may not have been welded sufficiently and may not meet minimum strength requirements.” That means the child seat is more likely to move during an accident, increasing the chance of injury.
Any truck that failed to meet minimum strength requirements for child seats would violate U.S. safety regulations.
Toyota said it’s working on a fix for the problem. Once it finalizes the solution, it will then notify the affected truck owners to bring their vehicles to a Toyota dealer for repair. The carmaker said it will contact owners by mid-September 2022.
