Toyota Launches 2.8 Million-Vehicle Global Recall

Toyota Motor Corp. says it will recall 2.77 million vehicles worldwide to repair steering and water pump defects.

In Europe the campaign includes 496,000 vehicles with a defective steering gearbox link that could fail and 83,000 vehicles with a faulty hybrid system cooling pump.

The recall comes a month after Toyota announced a global recall of 7.4 million vehicles its largest ever for a single defective part to fix power window switches that could cause a fire.

The new campaign involves 2.14 million vehicles worldwide with the steering system defect, 10,000 hybrids with the faulty pump and 620,000 vehicles with both problems.

Beyond Europe, the steering shaft recall involves 10 models and encompasses 1.5 million vehicles in Japan, 670,000 in the U.S. and 104,000 in other markets. The hybrid water pump recall covers 175,000 vehicles in Japan, 350,000 in the U.S. and 22,000 elsewhere.