2016 TOYOTA TACOMA — Complaint #1824247
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:FOG LIGHTS filed July 8, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1824247 (ODI reference 11472885) concerns a 2016 TOYOTA TACOMA and was filed on July 8, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 7, 2022. The vehicle had 143,749 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:fog lights, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 exterior lighting:fog lights 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 2016 TOYOTA TACOMA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2016 Toyota Tacoma. The contact stated that while driving, the driverâs side fog light housing melted. There was an abnormal odor of smoke. There were no warning lights illuminated. The local dealer was not contacted. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 143,749.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1824247 |
| ODI Number | 11472885 |
| Date Filed | July 8, 2022 |
| Failure Date | July 7, 2022 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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