NHTSA Safety Recalls
2020 Toyota Highlander Recalls
The 2020 Toyota Highlander has 4 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on December 20, 2023.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2020 Toyota Highlander. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 4
- Owner complaints
- 321
- Crashes reported
- 16
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
in complaints
overall, 5 stars max
On a 2020 Toyota Highlander, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
4 recalls on the 2020 Toyota Highlander
Air bags: sensor: occupant classification
- Campaign
- 23V865000
- Reported
- December 20, 2023
- Vehicles affected
- up to 999,901
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2021 Highlander, 10 other models
Structure: body: bumpers
- Campaign
- 23V720000
- Reported
- October 26, 2023
- Vehicles affected
- up to 750,795
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2021–2023 Highlander, 1 other model
Air bags
- Campaign
- 20V633000
- Reported
- October 14, 2020
- Vehicles affected
- up to 3,121
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 1 other model
Fuel system, gasoline: delivery
- Campaign
- 20V162000
- Reported
- March 19, 2020
- Vehicles affected
- up to 38,810
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- only the 2020 Toyota Highlander
2020 Toyota Highlander complaints by year
NHTSA has received 321 owner complaints about the 2020 Toyota Highlander, the newest on October 19, 2026. Of these, 16 describe a crash (5%); owners reported 20 injuries.
In complaints about the 2020 Toyota Highlander, the component group named most often is the power train (39%), followed by the service brakes (12%) and the air bags (10%).
2 of the 2020 Toyota Highlander's 4 recalls also concern the air bags.
Where 2020 Toyota Highlander owners gave the mileage (60 complaints), the median was 20,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Power Train126
- Unknown Or Other45
- Service Brakes39
- Air Bags32
- Structure30
- Fuel/Propulsion System19
Complaints received, by year
| 2020 | 18 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 27 | |
| 2022 | 22 | |
| 2023 | 24 | |
| 2024 | 59 | |
| 2025 | 100 | |
| 2026 | 71 |
Complaints about the 2020 Toyota Highlander peaked in 2025, when NHTSA received 100. 28% arrived between 2019 and 2023, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2020 vehicles, the 2020 Toyota Highlander drew 1.4× the complaints of the median Toyota Highlander year in the same window: 7th highest of the 22 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: ★★★★★
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 4/5
The 321 complaints about the 2020 Toyota Highlander are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Toyota Highlander by model year
Other 2020 Toyota models
Newest record on this page: October 19, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted