2010 TOYOTA YARIS — Complaint #1643170
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER:STORAGE:FUEL GAUGE SYSTEM filed February 3, 2020
NHTSA complaint #1643170 (ODI reference 11306737) concerns a 2010 TOYOTA YARIS and was filed on February 3, 2020. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 31, 2020. The vehicle had 142,234 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Missouri based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, other:storage:fuel gauge system, 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 YARIS cohort independently describe similar fuel system, other:storage:fuel gauge system 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 YARIS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2010 TOYOTA YARIS. THE CONTACT STATED THE FUEL GAUGE FAILED TO ILLUSTRATE THE CORRECT AMOUNT OF FUEL WHICH CAUSED THE VEHICLE STALL DUE TO A LACK OF FUEL. THE CONTACT STATED NO WARNING LIGHT WAS ILLUMINATED OR INFORMED THAT THE FUEL LEVEL WAS LOW. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DRIVABLE AND WAS TOWED TO LOCAL DEALER (JOE MACHENS TOYOTA LOCATED AT 1180 VANDIVER DR, COLUMBIA, MO 65202, WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED WITH NEEDING THE FUEL SENDER GAUGE TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. THE CONTACT STATED AFTER THE REPAIRS, THE VEHICLE SEIZED AND THE CHECK ENGINE WARNING WAS ILLUMINATED. THE CONTACT HAD NOT INFORMED THE DEALER OF THE SECONDARY FAILURE. THE MANUFACTURER HAD NOT BEEN INFORMED OF FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 142,234. *LN*JB *DL
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1643170 |
| ODI Number | 11306737 |
| Date Filed | February 3, 2020 |
| Failure Date | January 31, 2020 |
| VIN | JTDBT4K31A1 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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