The Tundra Camshaft Recall Just Reached America, and It’s 62,000 Trucks

Toyota is preparing a US safety recall for about 62,000 Tundra pickups whose twin-turbo V6 may have a camshaft that could snap while the truck is being driven, causing a total loss of power.

The trucks fall into two groups. Roughly 44,700 are 2025 and 2026 Tundras built from late June 2025 to mid-April 2026, and another 17,800 are 2022 and 2023 Tundras that were built from early November 2021 to mid-January 2023 and later received a replacement engine that may have come with one of the faulty camshafts. Dealers are holding back about 78 of the newer trucks and 7 of the older ones that are still in their inventory.

The plan was first reported by The Drive, which cited a dealer notice describing the campaign. According to that report, the camshafts were improperly manufactured by a single supplier and come from one production lot, and Toyota estimates that only about 300 of them are affected, all on the engine’s first cylinder bank. The production periods and vehicle counts above come from a table in the notice that was posted to an owners’ forum under the recall code 26TA26.

The Drive reports that the recall covers only the 3.4-liter twin-turbo V6, which Toyota calls the V35A-FTS, and leaves out 2024 model-year trucks, the i-Force Max hybrid Tundra and the Sequoia, which uses the same engine. Dealers will inspect the camshaft and install a new one free of charge if it comes from the affected lot, and Toyota plans to notify owners by mid-January 2027. The forum post that carried the notice said no remedy was available yet, so owners may have to wait until those letters arrive before a dealer can do the work.

The US plan follows a recall Toyota filed in Japan on November 12 for four American-built Tundras that had been brought into that country privately. That notice blamed a right-side exhaust camshaft that may have cracked during machining and could break and stall the engine. Toyota has not yet filed the US campaign with federal regulators: when we checked on November 13, NHTSA’s database still listed only one recall for the 2026 Tundra, a load-label correction on a single truck. Toyota has not confirmed the recall publicly, and the figures in this story come from the dealer notice and The Drive’s report.

This is a separate problem from the machining debris that has plagued the same engine. The Drive notes that three recalls over debris left on the number one main bearing have covered more than 270,000 vehicles, and that Toyota first said it would replace every affected engine before telling dealers to test each one to decide whether a replacement was needed.

The Toyota Report Take

When four Japanese-market Tundras were recalled for a cracked camshaft a day ago, the obvious question was whether the same batch of parts had gone into trucks sold here, and this answers it. The scale of the real problem is small, since about 300 suspect camshafts spread across 62,000 trucks means the vast majority of owners will get an inspection and a handshake. The uncomfortable part is the 2022 and 2023 group, since those are trucks whose engines were already replaced, very likely under the main bearing debris recall, and whose owners may now learn the new engine needs a look too. Until the letters go out in January, owners of a 2025 or 2026 Tundra without the hybrid would be wise to ask their dealer whether their VIN is on the list rather than wait for the mail.

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