This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
The daytime driving lights are too hot causing the plastic housing to melt, crack and, in some cases, break. My research has found that this is a common problem in Toyota Tacoma trucks from 2005-11. In April 2015, Toyota replaced the headlight assemblies with a supposed "redesigned" assembly to address this issue. However, now in April 2021, the "redesigned" assemblies have again melted, cracked and broken due to the daytime driving lights being too hot and too close to the light assembly. Nothing was redesigned in 2015. Whatever safety or fire hazard in the owner or operator that caused Toyota to replace the headlight assemblies in 2015 still exists today. I have contacted Toyota and my dealer and they have offered no assistance or remedy.
There is an issue on driving amber signal lights located on front of vehicle. Bulbs are too hot, and have melted and cracked the lense cover on the inside of the head light assembly. It is hampering light out put, and could form a hole in the future which will provide a high beam of light to on coming traffic. Also, it could ignite due to heat and plastic melting. Reports of this occuring on Toyota vehicles have been numerous with no resolve. Mind you, this is a engineer or manufacturing mishap and error as they failed to consider at the moment of designing /manufacturing, and now the results are more than evident. Other Toyota vehicles are not having this issue which means that someone figured out a resolve on their future production in order to avoid bad publicity. It is fair to say, that Toyota should replace such a defect, or reimburse its customers who decide to replace them due to such a defect. Thank you for considering the validity of this manner!
Running lights are melting the head light clear assembly...this is the second time for the running light bulbs to melt the head light assembly..the heat is 233 degrees using a digital heat reader...the yellow bulbs are 24 watts..
Burnt headlight len. The running light lens is burnt and cracked due to overheating. When I tried to contact Toyota's recall phone number, after over a dozen attempts, the number was always busy.
Front headlights have yellow signal and daytime running lights that are always on and the light bulb heat up causing the plastic to heat and melt and still feel hot when using on a long drive. I worry about my car catching on fire
2009 Toyota Tacoma. Consumer writes in regards to bubble and crack in passenger front turn signal. The consumer stated the dealer refused to repair the vehicle due to the expiration date for the repair to be made ended in 2015.
Daytime running lights have burned and cracked lenses. Toyota corporate says the recall is over. This needs to be fixed--repair costs over $500. Please help--
The contact owns a 2009 Toyota Tacoma. The contact stated that the signal lights started to separate from the vehicle and the lens lost color. Also, the contact mentioned that the headlights were dim. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failures. The approximate failure mileage was 60,000....updated 04/08/15 updated 4/13/15 the consumer stated the signal lights are housed in a heated lamp module and they constantly burned out/ the melted the signal lens inside the head lamp assembly and cracked the plastic and now the signal lamps are fogging up inside the lens of the head lamp assemblies. Updated 04/21/15 updated 10/22/2015
At appx. 24,000 miles, I noticed that my 'daytime' running lights were cloudy and that both lenses were cracked. I neglected to take it in for this, since I was more concerned about the engine hesitating on acceleration. When I finally remembered to tell/show them, they weren't concerned, because the warranty was out. They did offer to split it with me. My cost would have been $492. Screw'em... this is clearly a factory defect. Especially with as many of the same complaints I have found for this. You'd think the dot would do something.
The running lights melted the lenses at 35000 miles and I took my truck back to Toyota and they replaced the lights, said they put bulbs in there that would not get as hot. Now at over 80000 miles they have melted again, the plastic is turning black, looks like a possible fire hazard. I have seen this same issue with other similar models. Toyota is aware of the problem, needs to recall and properly fix!
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