2010 TOYOTA TACOMA — Complaint #2178605
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NHTSA Complaint about AIR BAGS filed February 19, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2178605 (ODI reference 11719158) concerns a 2010 TOYOTA TACOMA and was filed on February 19, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 18, 2026. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as air bags, 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: yes, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. A complaint that flags a crash, fire, or fatality is escalated on NHTSA's internal review queue and factors more heavily into any Preliminary Evaluation decision on this make and model. 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 TACOMA cohort independently describe similar air bags 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 2010 TOYOTA TACOMA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Our son hit a guardrail and the airbags didn't deploy. Accident and failure was reported to insurance company
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2178605 |
| ODI Number | 11719158 |
| Date Filed | February 19, 2026 |
| Failure Date | February 18, 2026 |
| VIN | 5tenx4cn9az |
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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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