# NHTSA recall 16V672000

A recall listed here may apply to a vehicle of this year, make and model. Only the manufacturer can say whether it applies to one vehicle: check the VIN with the official lookups.

- Published by: NHTSA \(United States\)
- Campaign number: 16V672000
- Manufacturer's number: G0W
- Manufacturer: Toyota Motor Engineering \& Manufacturing
- Reported: 2016\-09\-16
- Owners notified: 2016\-11\-10
- Component: AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- Units potentially affected: 7817

## What is wrong

Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing \(Toyota\) is recalling certain model year 2016 Toyota Prius vehicles manufactured November 30, 2015, to June 14, 2016.  An air bag inflator manufacturing error may result in the inadvertent partial inflation of the front passenger air bag.


## What can happen

A front passenger air bag that unintentionally inflates can increase the risk of a crash or injury.


## The remedy

Toyota will notify owners, and dealers will replace the front passenger air bag assembly, free of charge.  The recall began November 10, 2016.  Owners may contact Toyota customer service at 1\-800\-331\-4331.  Toyota's number for this recall is G0W.


## Notes

Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1\-888\-327\-4236 \(TTY 1\-800\-424\-9153\), or go to www.safercar.gov.


## Remedy progress the manufacturer reported

- Report: Quarterly report 6, for 2018 quarter 1
- Filed with NHTSA: 2018\-04\-27
- Vehicles in the campaign: 7817
- Reported remedied: 6860 \(87%\)
- Reported unreachable: 781
- Reported removed: 0

These are the manufacturer's totals for the whole campaign at the end of 2018 quarter 1, as filed with NHTSA. They do not say whether one vehicle has been remedied: check the VIN with the official lookups. The reports are from data as of 2026\-10\-19.

## Vehicles this campaign lists

- [2016 TOYOTA PRIUS](/makes/toyota/prius/2016/recalls.md). Built 2016\-11\-30 to 2016\-06\-14.

## Check a VIN

- [NHTSA recall lookup by VIN, United States](https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls)
- [Transport Canada recall search, Canada](https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/7/VRDB-BDRV/search-recherche/menu.aspx?lang=eng)

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