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2012 TOYOTA PRIUS — Complaint #1590640

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NHTSA Complaint about HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM: INVERTER filed August 2, 2019

NHTSA complaint #1590640 (ODI reference 11241343) concerns a 2012 TOYOTA PRIUS and was filed on August 2, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 1, 2019. The vehicle had 69,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as hybrid propulsion system: inverter, 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 PRIUS cohort independently describe similar hybrid propulsion system: inverter 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 2012 TOYOTA PRIUS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2012 TOYOTA PRIUS
Component
HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM: INVERTER
State
Georgia
Mileage
69,500 mi

Complaint Description

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2012 TOYOTA PRIUS. WHILE DRIVING 20 MPH, THE VEHICLE BEGAN TO STALL AND A WARNING INDICATOR SIGNALED THE CONTACT TO PULL THE VEHICLE OVER. THE CONTACT WAS ABLE TO COAST THE VEHICLE INTO A PARKING SPACE. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO MARIETTA TOYOTA (750 COBB PKWY S, MARIETTA, GA 30060, (470) 938-8436) WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE HYBRID INVERTER NEEDED REPLACEMENT. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS UNKNOWN *BF .

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1590640
ODI Number 11241343
Date Filed August 2, 2019
Failure Date August 1, 2019
VIN JTDKN3DU1C5

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.