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2019 Toyota Tundra

This year drew an ordinary 72 complaints for a Toyota Tundra — the model's median is 127. What they were about is the unusual part: 27.8% of them mention fuel, against 6.6% 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.

What the complaints were about

• fuel — 27.8% of this year's complaints, against 6.6% across the other years of this generation (4.2×).
• warning lights — 26.4% of this year's complaints, against 9.1% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: warning lights, residence, most, towed residence.
• didn — 12.5% of this year's complaints, against 4.4% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: didn, taking, trust, cases.

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 attempting to start the vehicle at the residence, the contact stated that the engine was shaking abnormally. No warning lights were illuminated. The contact stated that a dealer was contacted. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed and…

while driving approximately 75 mph, a 2008 Lincoln struck the rear passenger side of her vehicle which caused her vehicle to tail spin and crash into the guardrail. The vehicle continued to tailspin. The air bags did not deploy. All the warning indicator light…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 20V682000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
• 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

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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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