2015 Toyota Tacoma
This year drew an ordinary 100 complaints for a Toyota Tacoma — the model's median is 202. What they were about is the unusual part: 14% of them mention around, against 5% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Toyota Tacoma ran from 2005 to 2015, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 100 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 202 |
| Involving a crash | 15 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- around — 14% of this year's complaints, against 5% across the other years of this generation (2.8×).
- models — 10% of this year's complaints, against 3.1% across the other years of this generation (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: models, toyota aware, dealer inspected, way back.
- airbags — 9% of this year's complaints, against 3.2% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: airbags, deployed, cut, airbags deployed.
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
I BOUGHT A NEW 2015 TACOMA 4X4 AND IT HAS 77,000 MILES ON IT NOW. THERE IS KNOCKING NOISE COMING FROM BEHING THE STEERING WHEEL. I TOOK IT TO THE DEALER TO HAVE IT INSPECTED AND THEY TOLD ME THE STEERING INTERMEDIATE SHAFT NEEDS REPLACED. EVIDENTLY THERE IS "P…
WHILE TRAVELING APPROXIMATELY 60 MPH, I COLLIDED INTO A LARGE FREE RANGE ANIMAL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. UPON IMPACT NONE OF MY AIRBAGS DEPLOYED AND AS A RESULT I SUFFERED LIFE THREATENING INJURIES, WAS FLOWN TO THE NEAREST HOSPITAL AND HAD OPEN HEART SURGER…
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.
- 15V099000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 14V663000 EQUIPMENT 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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