2018 Toyota Tundra
This year drew an ordinary 99 complaints for a Toyota Tundra — the model's median is 127. What they were about is the unusual part: 19.2% of them mention pre-collision, against 3.8% 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 | 99 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 127 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 9 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 15 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- pre-collision — 19.2% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the other years of this generation (5.1×). Owners wrote it as: pre-collision, pre-collision system, goes, warning indicator.
- dash — 22.2% of this year's complaints, against 8.4% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: dash, pulled, warnings, look.
- fuel — 17.2% of this year's complaints, against 6.6% across the other years of this generation (2.6×).
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 was driving on the highway and as I was entering an exit, I heard a loud bang like a shot gun blast. I was on my way back to work from lunch, so I pulled into my office's parking lot. I look at my vehicle's dash display screen to see if a tire had blown. I e…
FUEL PUMP. I was driving at highway speeds of about 70mph when I suddenly lost propulsion but the truck was still running. I had cars behind me and coming from the front. I shifted to neutral and back to drive to see if that would fix it and nothing changed. I…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V920000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 21V688000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 20V410000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 21E103000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 20V012000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 18V685000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 18V711000 EQUIPMENT
- 17V831000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 9. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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