2014 Toyota Tacoma
This year drew an ordinary 93 complaints for a Toyota Tacoma — the model's median is 202. What they were about is the unusual part: 11.8% of them mention valve, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Toyota Tacoma, which began in 2005 and ran to 2015. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 93 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 202 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- valve — 11.8% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation (9×). Owners wrote it as: valve, secondary, secondary air, switching.
- use — 17.2% of this year's complaints, against 6.5% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: use, radio, complained, above.
- lock — 12.9% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the other years of this generation (4.3×). Owners wrote it as: lock, vehicle only, came completely, completely out.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
MY MODEL CAME WITH A ENTUNE RADIO. THEY USE SOFTWARE . SOMETIMES THE RADIO WORKS JUST FINE OR IT MIGHT TURN OFF AND RESTART OR THE BLUETOOTH WORKS THEN DOESNT. IT HAS BEEN A NUMBER OF WACKY PROBLEMS. OTHER PEOPLE HAVE COMPLAINED ON YOU TUBE AND THE INTERNET. T…
SECONDARY AIR VALVE FAILURE RESULTING IN ENGINE STALL. OTHER 2013 -2014 TACOMA'S HAVE BEEN RECALLED FOR THIS SAME PROBLEM.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V425000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 14V828000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 14V475000 EQUIPMENT
- 13V557000 ENGINE Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Tacoma was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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