2013 Toyota Tundra
This year drew an ordinary 84 complaints for a Toyota Tundra — the model's median is 127. What they were about is the unusual part: 20.2% of them mention wheel, against 5.7% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Toyota Tundra, which began in 2007 and ran to 2021. 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 | 84 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 127 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 15.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- wheel — 20.2% of this year's complaints, against 5.7% across the other years of this generation (3.5×).
- spring — 10.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.5% across the other years of this generation (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: spring, belt, seat belt, plastic.
- ecu — 8.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the other years of this generation (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: ecu, poor, tells, reflash.
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 SEAT BELT LATCH QUIT WORKING THE PLASTIC PIECE AND SPRING CAME UP OUT OF THE LATCH. MY VEHICLE WAS STATIONARY.
Plastic piece and spring have ejected from the seat belt receiver and now the receiver does not latch on to the seat belt when it is inserted into the receiver (driver side but could happen to any/all). The seat belt no longer buckles.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V311000 WHEELS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V429000 WHEELS Fixed free of charge.
- 13V014000 AIR BAGS
- 13V123000 EQUIPMENT
- 21V920000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 21E103000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Tundra 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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