2024 GX Engine Recall? (1 Viewer)
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Toyota Recalls Certain Toyota Tundra and Lexus GX and LX Vehicles - Toyota USA Newsroom
PLANO, Texas (Nov. 6, 2025) — Toyota is conducting a safety recall involving certain model year 2022-2024 Toyota Tundra, 2022-2024 Lexus LX, and 2024 Lexus GX vehicles in North America. Approximately 127,000 Toyota- and Lexus-branded vehicles (conventional gas models only) are […]pressroom.toyota.com
I saw someone on a Facebook group mention this, so I looked into it. Sounds like us that got the first couple allotments might be in for
I bought mine in May 24, build date 4/24 but I don’t have the recall. I wonder how they narrowed down the vehicles? A batch number of certain engines?
Yeah, no matter how qualified the mechanic is, they're human and will make mistakes. They are not going to remember every bolt and clip where it belongs. There will be a lot of clips broken as well.
The mechanics at the Lexus can't even rotate the wheels without scratching them. Do you think they will be able to remove and install a heavy chunk of metal without scratching or damaging anything else? I don't think so.
I'm mad that Lexus possibly knew there was a defect but continued to sell the GX even though the Tundra had an engine recall. Now it's the customers who have suffered through this recall, knowing that my brand-new GX will never be the same.
Same, like exactly with a 4/24 build date for our OT and no engine recall as of yet.
I have also changed all my own twice (@900, 5000) before the 10k service when I let Lexus change the oil. I sent samples to Blackstone Labs (attached) and although the iron, copper, and silver were slightly elevated they its not unusual and the silver was "probably just solder". Kind of wishing I would have done my own at 10k, but oh well. We've had zero issues with our GX besides the brake squeal that was corrected quickly and love the hell out of it.
Getting ready to do another 4k round trip back home to PA with it over the holiday and I'll change the oil when we get back and send that one in. Is what it is, I'd buy this thing again 100 times over even if we do end up with recall, although I'd maybe try to trade in for a '26 with the extra 1" and hopefully not the cool box.
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Mine is Dec. 2024 and no notices about the engine, just the backup camera, on website or app. Given the info on dates of affected engines, I'd guess mine isn't going to be an issue. I'll also echo what was said above, I really like this vehicle, and would buy it again, even with an engine swap (although I'm glad I don't have to fool with it).
I’m right around 20000 miles now, oil has been changed 5 times so far.
VIN Sticker on my door indicates 10/24 date, car arrived at dealer in Dec and we picked it up a week later.
The Lexus app only shows “when in reverse the image may fail” bulletin…so far.
I totally agree with Gvan1998. Simply no way that from dealership to dealership (Toyota or Lexus) the experience and final results will be consistent (disassembly, install, reassemble all miscellaneous parts). Not realistic. And what about resale valuation?
Toyota instead should have set up 1 consolidated facility in a place such as L.A. or Phoenix, maybe Texas. Filled it with equipment and a few dozen techs, supervisors, QA who already have this particular experience..and started each car down a pseudo repair line; and would include serious QA during the process. Be it Tundra or Lexus models.
Owners of each engine recall car should have been offered: 1) either a full buyout of the car to include their sales tax and registration paid; or 2) a complete trade-in for a new 2025 or 2026 off of incoming new inventory (moving to top of all dealer wait lists) OR the trade with the ability to actually custom order their new replacement as they want from the factory; or 3) a choice to keep the repaired car with a 90 day lemon-repair return policy AND a serious new warranty, maybe 10 years/150,000 miles bumper to bumper, starting from date/mileage of repair.
For those repaired cars owners choose to let go (option 1 or 2), Toyota-Lexus would parcel them out to their dealer network as used, refurbished and repaired by Lexus and with the same return policy and warranty as option 3.
I haven’t followed this closely. Maybe Toyota-Lexus already is offering some portions or other versions of the above. Different state laws may not allow for some of that, or demand a stronger lemon law, etc. I really don’t know.
But that’s the general approach their Corporate should have taken.
They’ve already blown most of their 30+ years of high quality, dependability reputation.
Now they should be thinking well outside the box to get both the media’s and customers attention, and demonstrate they are serious about fixing this mess.
Just my amateur opinion.
VIN Sticker on my door indicates 10/24 date, car arrived at dealer in Dec and we picked it up a week later.
The Lexus app only shows “when in reverse the image may fail” bulletin…so far.
I totally agree with Gvan1998. Simply no way that from dealership to dealership (Toyota or Lexus) the experience and final results will be consistent (disassembly, install, reassemble all miscellaneous parts). Not realistic. And what about resale valuation?
Toyota instead should have set up 1 consolidated facility in a place such as L.A. or Phoenix, maybe Texas. Filled it with equipment and a few dozen techs, supervisors, QA who already have this particular experience..and started each car down a pseudo repair line; and would include serious QA during the process. Be it Tundra or Lexus models.
Owners of each engine recall car should have been offered: 1) either a full buyout of the car to include their sales tax and registration paid; or 2) a complete trade-in for a new 2025 or 2026 off of incoming new inventory (moving to top of all dealer wait lists) OR the trade with the ability to actually custom order their new replacement as they want from the factory; or 3) a choice to keep the repaired car with a 90 day lemon-repair return policy AND a serious new warranty, maybe 10 years/150,000 miles bumper to bumper, starting from date/mileage of repair.
For those repaired cars owners choose to let go (option 1 or 2), Toyota-Lexus would parcel them out to their dealer network as used, refurbished and repaired by Lexus and with the same return policy and warranty as option 3.
I haven’t followed this closely. Maybe Toyota-Lexus already is offering some portions or other versions of the above. Different state laws may not allow for some of that, or demand a stronger lemon law, etc. I really don’t know.
But that’s the general approach their Corporate should have taken.
They’ve already blown most of their 30+ years of high quality, dependability reputation.
Now they should be thinking well outside the box to get both the media’s and customers attention, and demonstrate they are serious about fixing this mess.
Just my amateur opinion.
I am pretty confident that this engine recall will affect the rest of 2024 and possibly 2025 GX models. Look at the Tundra's engine recall: it started with 22-23 models and has now spread to 24 models.
The theory is that Toyota doesn't want to recall all the vehicles at once, so they can spread out the engine replacements so they don't get hammered with all the Tundras at once. Additionally, Toyota knows it affects the 25 Tundras but didn't include them because it doesn't want to stop sales of current models.
I totally agree with your statement and was going to reply the same. Would not be surprised this will be an in-stages recall.
I'm not going to worry about it as long as it keeps running. I haven't seen a single person on this forum complain about a an engine failure. That's got to mean something. But most of the Tundra failures have occurred after 40k miles.
I spoke to the dealer about my recall. They confirmed that my GX is impacted, but they have no further information to share and stated that they won't have any updates until January at the earliest. They advised me to call Lexus directly to see if they will share any additional information at this time.
I'm not going to worry about it until it becomes a problem, if ever, and then it will get fixed. I've spent too much of my life doing the opposite.
The pessimistic side of me and probably the realistic side of me tends to agree with what you're saying. But I continue to scratch my head with curiosity as to why Toyota has not issued a stop sale. If your theory is truly the case, by not issuing a stop sale they are just digging the hole deeper and deeper.
It's in the door jam.
Oh ya lol. Had a stroke there for a minute
Mine is 12/24.
My build date is 7/24. Too close for comfort 
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