2010 TOYOTA TACOMA — Complaint #1429603
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NHTSA Complaint about AIR BAGS filed December 1, 2017
NHTSA complaint #1429603 (ODI reference 11051811) concerns a 2010 TOYOTA TACOMA and was filed on December 1, 2017. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 1, 2017. The vehicle had 140,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New Hampshire based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as air bags, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same TOYOTA TACOMA cohort independently describe similar air bags failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2010 TOYOTA TACOMA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2010 TOYOTA TACOMA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE AIR BAG WARNING INDICATOR ILLUMINATED AND THE STEERING COLUMN CONTROLS CEASED TO FUNCTION. THE CONTACT, A CERTIFIED TOYOTA MECHANIC, DIAGNOSED THAT THE SPIRAL CABLE WAS DEFECTIVE AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE AND THE CONTACT WAS REFERRED TO NHTSA. THE DEALER WAS NOT CONTACTED. THE MANUFACTURER'S REPRESENTATIVE INFORMED THE CONTACT THAT NHTSA WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SCOPE OF THE RECALL EVEN THOUGH THE RECALL WAS VOLUNTARY. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 140,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1429603 |
| ODI Number | 11051811 |
| Date Filed | December 1, 2017 |
| Failure Date | May 1, 2017 |
| VIN | 5TEUU4EN6AZ |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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