On Thursday, LA Times reported that Toyota issued a recall for the newer Tundra pickups due to possible problems with its airbag.

Toyota discovered an assembly error on the pickup during testing for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's vehicle assessments. The error could cause the interior trim over the center pillar to intervene with the side-curtain deployment of the airbag.

The issue affects some 230,000 vehicles in total and is limited to the 2014 model year of the Tundra CrewMax and Double Cab pickups.

Toyota issued the recall as a precaution, although the company has not received any report of injuries due to this problem. The error prevents the airbag from deploying properly to get into its specified inflated shape.

The owners of the affected vehicles are being sent emails informing them of the recall. This covers 200 pickups in Mexico, 10,000 units in Canada and 130,000 units in the United States.

The recalled vehicles will be inspected by Toyota technicians to see if the trim piece, which they call the garnish, has been correctly installed. The misassembled parts will be replaced with new ones.

Since May 1999, Toyota has been manufacturing the Toyota Tundra in the United States.

Toyota Tundra is the first full-sized pickup truck built by Toyota. It was chosen as the Truck of the Year by Motor Trend Magazine in 2000 and had been nominated for the North American Truck of the Year award. It is now assembled in San Antonio, Texas, where a pickup truck is an integral part of the culture of the state. 

The first generation Tundra pickups were similar to the older Toyota T100 and the Toyota Tacoma, as the Tundra also had the top of the line 3.4-liter V6 engine.

The second generation was installed with a V8 engine sized at 4.7 liters as part of the lineup.