2008 TOYOTA SCION TC — Complaint #1826914
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING: REAR COMPARTMENT/TRUNK filed July 19, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1826914 (ODI reference 11474732) concerns a 2008 TOYOTA SCION TC and was filed on July 19, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 19, 2022. The vehicle had 92,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:wiring: rear compartment/trunk, 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 SCION TC cohort independently describe similar electrical system:wiring: rear compartment/trunk 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 2008 TOYOTA SCION TC shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2008 Scion TC. The contact stated that the trunk rubber seal had melted onto the bumper, causing the battery to drain and the electrical system to fail with several unknown warning lights illuminated. The dealer was made aware of the failure; however, the vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 92,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1826914 |
| ODI Number | 11474732 |
| Date Filed | July 19, 2022 |
| Failure Date | July 19, 2022 |
| VIN | JTKDE167X80 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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