2021 TOYOTA C-HR — Complaint #2178395
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed February 19, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2178395 (ODI reference 11719018) concerns a 2021 TOYOTA C-HR and was filed on February 19, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 15, 2026. The report was geocoded to Kansas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train, 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 C-HR cohort independently describe similar power train 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 2021 TOYOTA C-HR shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I was told that the bearing was going out in the transmission. Toyota is charging $11,000 to replace it. Seems to be a common occurrence amongst these vehicles.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2178395 |
| ODI Number | 11719018 |
| Date Filed | February 19, 2026 |
| Failure Date | January 15, 2026 |
| VIN | Jtnkhmbx1m1 |
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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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