2004 TOYOTA TACOMA — Complaint #661082
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:INDICATOR LIGHT filed March 11, 2008
NHTSA complaint #661082 (ODI reference 10220835) concerns a 2004 TOYOTA TACOMA and was filed on March 11, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 28, 2008. The vehicle had 38,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Louisiana based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:indicator light, 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 TACOMA cohort independently describe similar parking brake:indicator light 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 2004 TOYOTA TACOMA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
PARKING BRAKE LIGHT STAYS ON. VEHICLE IS SLUGGISH. BRAKES ARE SQUEALING. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 661082 |
| ODI Number | 10220835 |
| Date Filed | March 11, 2008 |
| Failure Date | January 28, 2008 |
| VIN | 5TENL42N94Z |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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