2023 TOYOTA TUNDRA — Complaint #2160081
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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:FRAME AND MEMBERS:UNDERBODY SHIELDS filed December 23, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2160081 (ODI reference 11706849) concerns a 2023 TOYOTA TUNDRA and was filed on December 23, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 17, 2025. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:frame and members:underbody shields, 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 TUNDRA cohort independently describe similar structure:frame and members:underbody shields 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 2023 TOYOTA TUNDRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Traveling on highwy bat 70 mph the fuel tank protection panel 77606/77641C came loose in the front after bracket support 77511 broke and the air pressure bent the protector down at the front and it hit the roadway and bounced up and banged against the tank area. I stopped, assessed damage, took picture and got off highway and drove home slowly. The subsequent part inspection showns fabrication errors in the part with fatigue failure and contaminated material. This could have been catastrofic failure with ontinued impact to fuel tank.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2160081 |
| ODI Number | 11706849 |
| Date Filed | December 23, 2025 |
| Failure Date | December 17, 2025 |
| VIN | 5TFJA5DB9PX |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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