Toyota Recalls Nearly 400,000 Cars for Rear-View Camera Malfunction

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on Oct. 7 announced the recall of nearly 400,000 Tundra trucks and Sequoia sport utility vehicles due to a software malfunction in the vehicles’ rear camera.

According to a recall notice from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), certain Toyota Tundras and Hybrid vehicles manufactured between 2022 and 2025, along with Toyota Sequoias made between 2023 and 2025, may not properly display images in the rear camera system when the vehicles are shifted into reverse gear, which increases the risk of a crash or striking a pedestrian while backing up.

The 393,838 affected vehicles fail to comply with rear-visibility standards established by Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, the NHTSA said. The recalled vehicles’ Panasonic multimedia display may show a half-green, full green, or full black screen rather than the actual image from the camera’s video feed, Toyota said.

Toyota said a remedy for the problem will be available sometime this month. Drivers with recalled vehicles can take their trucks or SUVs to a Toyota dealership for a free update to the vehicle’s multimedia display software system. The company will begin mailing recall notices to owners on Nov. 16.

In the interim, the automaker said, drivers should not rely on their vehicle’s camera system and instead should visually check their surroundings before backing up. Toyota also noted that owners of affected vehicles whose backup cameras aren’t properly displaying rear-view images can shut off their automobiles and restart, which may allow the camera to properly display images.

According to Toyota, there were 220,860 Tundra trucks manufactured at the company’s manufacturing facility in San Antonio between early November 2021 and late July this year that may have the software glitch. An additional 105,010 Tundra Hybrid trucks made in the same location between mid-March 2022 through late July 2025 may also be affected, as well as 67,980 Sequoia Hybrid SUVs manufactured there from late August of 2022 through early July this year.

Drivers began alerting the automaker in 2022 of problems with their multimedia displays, Toyota said in its recall notice. Toyota requested testing from Panasonic’s automotive manufacturing facility in Reynosa, Mexico. Panasonic ran a testing program from January through April 2025 and found that the issue of green or other faulty images on the 14-inch multimedia displays may be caused by deviations in lane counters used to synchronize the camera.

From May through September, Panasonic ran vehicle bench testing using the original software and a revised version to confirm the problem. No other Toyota-, Lexus-, or Scion-branded vehicles are part of the safety recall (numbers 25TB10 and 25TA10), Toyota noted.

It’s the fifth recall in less than a month for Toyota. On Sept. 11, Toyota announced the recall of approximately 591,000 Toyota and Lexus vehicles due to a malfunction in those vehicles’ 12.3-inch display panels. On Sept. 26, Toyota recalled about 1,500 four-cylinder Supras due to a potential water leak in the vehicles’ starters. On Oct. 1, Toyota conducted a safety recall for about 6,000 Tacoma trucks due to an issue with the front driveshaft joints. Last, on Oct. 7, Toyota also recalled nearly 55,000 Sienna minivans due to potentially faulty welds in the second-row seat mounts.