2025 Toyota Tacoma
This year drew an ordinary 79 complaints for a Toyota Tacoma — the model's median is 202. What they were about is the unusual part: 27.8% of them mention broke, against 10.1% across the model's other years.
Generation 3 of the Toyota Tacoma, which began in 2024. 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 | 79 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 202 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- broke — 27.8% of this year's complaints, against 10.1% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: broke, passengers, occupant, 1st.
- down — 25.3% of this year's complaints, against 8.2% across the model's other years (3.1×).
- potential — 16.5% of this year's complaints, against 5.7% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: potential, discovered, unsafe drive, fully.
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
Driver side front and passenger door handle broke internally. The door is unable to be opened from the inside. This puts occupants at risk of not being able to exit the veichle in an emergency or safely from the inside. The problem was fixed for the front afte…
Turning a corner my left axle broke and I only have 3100 miles on this vehicle. Still is not fixed because of warranty issues. When I do get it back I don’t know how I’m suppose to feel safe driving it. Upon checking on YouTube and Internet I see there is a pr…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 25V058000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 25V595000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 25V656000 POWER TRAIN 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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