2023 Toyota Tacoma
This year drew an ordinary 51 complaints for a Toyota Tacoma — the model's median is 202. What they were about is the unusual part: 35.3% of them mention damage, against 14.1% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Toyota Tacoma ran from 2016 to 2023, 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 | 51 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 202 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- damage — 35.3% of this year's complaints, against 14.1% across the other years of this generation (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: damage, loss, prior, potential.
- cause — 17.6% of this year's complaints, against 5.5% across the other years of this generation (3.2×).
- being — 17.6% of this year's complaints, against 6.1% across the other years of this generation (2.9×).
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
Passenger Side windshield wiper fluid sprayer. It sprays the top of the vehicle hood during operation preventing fluid from the sprayer reaching the windshield. Prevents potential debris from being cleared off the windshield whether dirt, mud, and bugs or Ice…
Wiring harness on the vehicle is being completely replaced due to "rodent damage" according to the dealer. I am not an automotive engineer but if compromised wiring finally fails while driving I suspect a number of systems could be affected. There was no indic…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V520000 CHILD SEAT
- 23V480000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 24V152000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 25V040000 STEERING 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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