1995 TOYOTA T100 — Complaint #1782663
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NHTSA Complaint about AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE filed December 10, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1782663 (ODI reference 11443379) concerns a 1995 TOYOTA T100 and was filed on December 10, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 10, 2021. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as air bags:frontal:driver side:inflator module, 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 T100 cohort independently describe similar air bags:frontal:driver side:inflator module 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 1995 TOYOTA T100 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Within about 30 seconds of pulling out of my driveway on a dead end street, and thus driving very slowly, the driver's side airbag suddenly exploded. Thankfully there was no one else on the road and I wasn't going at a high speed. The airbag hit me in the face, knocking off my glasses and producing terrible smell and smoke. My left cheek is bruised. The horn went off continually until I was able to turn off the road into another driveway and turn off the engine. There was no warning, no impact, no braking until it exploded.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1782663 |
| ODI Number | 11443379 |
| Date Filed | December 10, 2021 |
| Failure Date | December 10, 2021 |
| VIN | JT4VD22F9S0 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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