Toyota Recalled the Tundra's Engine Three Times — and Still Doesn't Have a Fix

Here’s the short version: the engine in the current Tundra has been recalled three times for the same defect, and as of this writing Toyota still hasn’t shipped a remedy that holds. If you own one of these trucks, that’s not a press-release problem. That’s a “the engine in my driveway might grenade a bearing and I can’t get it fixed” problem.

Let me walk through what the federal filings actually say, because the story is cleaner than the headlines make it sound.

The defect, in plain English

The engine is the V35A-FTS — Toyota’s 3.4-liter twin-turbo V6, the one that replaced the old 5.7 V8 when the truck was redesigned for 2022. During machining at the plant, metal debris can get left behind inside the engine. That debris circulates, works its way to the main bearings, and chews them up. When a main bearing fails, you get the symptoms NHTSA lists in the filing: engine knock, rough running, a no-start, or a stall — a stall being the dangerous one, because losing power in traffic is how a defect becomes a crash.

This isn’t a sensor or a software gripe. It’s metal-in-the-oil, and the only real fix for a spun bearing is a new engine.

Three recalls, one root cause

• May 2024 — NHTSA campaign 24V381. The first recall. Covered 2022–2023 Tundra and the 2022–2023 Lexus LX 600 built with the V35A. Same debris-to-bearing failure mode.
• November 2025 — NHTSA campaign 25V767. The expansion. NHTSA lists 126,691 potentially affected U.S. vehicles, now reaching into 2022–2024 Tundras, 2022–2024 Lexus LX, and the 2024 Lexus GX. The filing’s own language is the tell: Toyota was still developing the remedy, with owner notification slated for early January 2026.
• May 2026 — the latest. Trade outlets covering the truck report the promised remedy has slipped again — roughly four years after the problem first surfaced — with owners still waiting on a definitive fix. (We’ll update this piece with the campaign number once it posts to the federal database.)

Read those three together and the pattern is the part that matters: Toyota keeps widening who’s affected while the fix keeps moving to the right. A recall is supposed to be the manufacturer admitting something’s broken and telling you how they’ll make it right. Here, the first half happened three times. The second half hasn’t really landed.

What this means if you own one

You don’t need to panic, but you should be deliberate.

1. Run your VIN. Check it against Toyota’s recall lookup and NHTSA. If your truck is in 24V381 or 25V767, you’re in the population.
2. Don’t ignore a knock. If the engine develops a new knock, runs rough, or throws a no-start, treat it as urgent — that’s the documented failure path, not normal break-in noise.
3. Paper everything. Because the remedy is still unsettled, keep dated records of every dealer visit and every symptom. If this ends up in a goodwill-repair or lemon-law conversation, that timeline is your leverage.
4. Know that the dealer can’t refuse the recall repair once a remedy exists — for any affected brand, regardless of where you bought the truck. The hold-up here isn’t the dealer; it’s that the fix itself isn’t finalized.

We track the Tundra’s full recall and complaint record by model year — the 2022, 2023, and 2024 trucks each have their own page with the NHTSA campaigns and owner reports laid out. If you’re shopping a used one right now, that’s where I’d start before you sign anything.

The Tundra is, by most accounts, a good truck. But “good truck with an engine recall that’s been open for four years and counting” is a sentence a buyer deserves to hear before they hand over the money — not after.