Toyota Highlander: Seats and Restraints

Affects Toyota Highlander · 2008 — about 7K vehicles.

The hazard

On certain vehicles, during the installation of an infant seat on the 3rd row seat, the seatbelt mechanism might revert back to the Emergency Locking Retractor (ELR) mode vs. an Automatic Locking Retractor (ALR) mode. Toyota has initiated a Customer Support program to provide replacement parts to prevent the ALR from reverting to ELR mode. Correction: Dealers will install a newly designed seatbelt component free of charge.

What to do

Contact your dealer; the remedy details were not included in the filing.

Critical — crash/injury risk now High — injury risk; see remedy Moderate — fix at next service Low — minor / informational