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Toyota Tacoma 2009

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

1.22 per 1,000

3.5 times this nameplate’s own median · from 156 complaints filed in the first three years, of 519 ever. 95% lower bound 1.03.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.77	112
2009	1.22	156
2010	0.72	78
2011	0.22	24
2012	0.29	36
2013	0.35	53
2014	0.20	32
2015	0.27	45
2016	1.08	200
2017	0.61	118
2018	0.55	122
2019	0.58	143
2020	0.20	48
2021	0.17	42
2022	0.15	37
2023	0.17	41

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Suspension 119 complaints

leaf	51	43%
notification campaign	42	35%
unavailable exceeded	29	24%
leaf spring	29	24%
however part	29	24%
leaf springs	28	24%

Exterior Lighting 105 complaints

lens	62	59%
cracked	38	36%
amber	21	20%
melted cracked	17	17%
plastic lens	11	11%

Power Train 75 complaints

revs

14%

When it breaks

43% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 36,000 miles, from 380 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

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Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.