2024 TOYOTA GRAND HIGHLANDER — Complaint #2035693
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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:BODY:HOOD:HINGE AND ATTACHMENTS filed October 26, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2035693 (ODI reference 11622092) concerns a 2024 TOYOTA GRAND HIGHLANDER and was filed on October 26, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 1, 2024. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:body:hood:hinge and attachments, 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 GRAND HIGHLANDER cohort independently describe similar structure:body:hood:hinge and attachments 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 2024 TOYOTA GRAND HIGHLANDER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The hood of the vehicle flexes a lot at highway speeds, and it causes a lot of distraction if the sun is reflected on it. My concern is how much distraction it causes
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2035693 |
| ODI Number | 11622092 |
| Date Filed | October 26, 2024 |
| Failure Date | October 1, 2024 |
| VIN | 5TDAAAB51RS |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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