Toyota filed a recall with Japan's transport ministry on August 26 covering 790 GR Supras, for a starter defect that in the worst case can lead to a fire.
The affected cars carry type codes 3BA-DB26 (507 units) and 3BA-DB86 (283 units), built between December 16, 2019 and September 11, 2025.
The defect
The starter's internal relay contacts have insufficient durability. Repeated engine starts — including the automatic ones performed by idle-stop — wear the contacts abnormally, and the wear debris accumulates at the contact points. The resulting fault may prevent the engine from starting and, in Toyota's worst-case language, could cause a fire while the starter is operating or the vehicle is being driven.
For the 790 vehicles covered by this filing, Toyota reported no related defect cases or accidents. The fix is a starter replacement with an improved part on every affected car, free of charge.
The defect is not confined to Japan
US owners have their own version of this campaign already. NHTSA recall 26V056, filed by BMW of North America on January 30, 2026, covers 803 model-year 2021–2023 Toyota Supras — part of a larger 87,394-vehicle campaign spanning BMW models with the same starter — for internal starter wear that can prevent the engine from starting and, in an extreme case, cause "a thermal event or fire" when starting the engine or while driving. US owners can check their VIN at NHTSA.gov or with a Toyota dealer.
For future buyers of an affected Japanese-market car, documentation showing the recall repair was completed will be a service-history item worth confirming against the chassis number.
Because the defect is tied to repeated starter operation, cars that regularly use the automatic stop-start system accumulate starter cycles — and therefore contact wear — more quickly.