2013 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER — Complaint #2065417
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NHTSA Complaint about AIR BAGS:PASSENGER SIDE FRONTAL:CUSHION filed February 13, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2065417 (ODI reference 11642557) concerns a 2013 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER and was filed on February 13, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 10, 2025. The vehicle had 124,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to South Dakota based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as air bags:passenger side frontal:cushion, 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 HIGHLANDER cohort independently describe similar air bags:passenger side frontal:cushion 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 2013 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2013 Toyota Highlander. The contact stated that while driving in negative 10-degree weather at 75 MPH, the driver's and passengerâs side curtain air bags deployed without warning or impact. The local dealer was contacted, but the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was approximately 124,000. The VIN was not available.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2065417 |
| ODI Number | 11642557 |
| Date Filed | February 13, 2025 |
| Failure Date | February 10, 2025 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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