2024 Toyota Tacoma
This year drew an ordinary 142 complaints for a Toyota Tacoma — the model's median is 202. What they were about is the unusual part: 24.6% of them mention transmission, against 5.6% across the model's other years.
First year of a new generation. The Toyota Tacoma was redesigned for 2024. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 142 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 202 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- transmission — 24.6% of this year's complaints, against 5.6% across the model's other years (4.4×).
- hydraulic — 13.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.8% across the model's other years (7.5×). Owners wrote it as: hydraulic, service brakes, brakes hydraulic, hydraulic however.
- undisclosed — 7.7% of this year's complaints, against 1.1% across the model's other years (7.1×). Owners wrote it as: undisclosed, driving undisclosed, undisclosed speed, depressing.
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
while driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle stalled. No warning light was illuminated. The contact restarted the vehicle and drove to the residence. The vehicle was towed to the dealer, where it was determined that the transmission was stuck in sixth ge…
notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 25V058000 (SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC). The contact stated that the dealer was contacted; however, the contact was informed that parts were not yet available for the recall repair. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufac…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V548000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 25V058000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 25V595000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 26V179000 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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