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Toyota Highlander 2016technical service bulletin

Bulletin SET-TSB-16-005 · NHTSA communication 10116446 · issued Sep 9, 2016

Technical service bulletin
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Official summary

Southeast Toyota Accessory On Board Vacuum may restrict access to the secondary manual fuel door release. This publication provides kit part numbers for modification of vacuum to provide access to secondary manual fuel door release.

Vehicles covered

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.