2015 TOYOTA PRIUS — Complaint #2166862
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES filed January 15, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2166862 (ODI reference 11711319) concerns a 2015 TOYOTA PRIUS and was filed on January 15, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2026. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, 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 PRIUS cohort independently describe similar service brakes 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 2015 TOYOTA PRIUS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I purchased a vehicle a year ago whenever my vehicle was still under the tenure and the 10 year and itâs still under 150,000 mile range. The vehicle was purchased strictly from the Toyota dealership in Lakeland, Florida, and shortly thereafter my brakes completely went out and the booster actuator assembly looking it up by further realize that is a very common issue and that there is so much that thereâs class action lawsuits and also instead of it having a recall, it has a customer support to replace parts. My car is very dangerous and doesnât have any brakes and itâs still very new from the dealership. What itâs very interesting is that itâs not throwing any codes at all, though it beeps the entire time that Iâm in the vehicle with the ABS light on and I know that itâs that problem why is it not showing any codes I think that for sure, the dealership wouldâve had to done something to prevent that in order to sell the car unsafely
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2166862 |
| ODI Number | 11711319 |
| Date Filed | January 15, 2026 |
| Failure Date | January 1, 2026 |
| VIN | JTDKN3DU5F0 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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