WHEELS:HUB
A wheel detaching from a moving vehicle can result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
4 safety recall campaigns, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 23 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
1 campaign covering the 2023 TOYOTA BZ4X carries NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
A wheel detaching from a moving vehicle can result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
A rearview camera that fails to display an image can reduce the driver's view behind the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
An inoperative defroster and defogger system can decrease the driver's visibility under certain driving conditions, increasing the risk of a crash.
A vehicle with an incorrect maximum capacity weight value may be overloaded, which can increase the risk of a crash.
Two 2023 TOYOTA BZ4Xs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.