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Model years to avoid

Toyota Tacoma

What it says about you

Opinion

You bought it knowing the resale value and you mention it, and the annoying thing is that you are correct. It is not comfortable. You have not complained once.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

22 model years on record, 6,133 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2010 (parts distribution), 2009 (lens), 2007 , 2006 (frame), 2005 (frame). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • secondary 2012, 2014 peak 40.5% of that year's complaints
  • damage 2023, 2025 peak 35.3% of that year's complaints
  • fuel 2018, 2019, 2020 peak 26.7% of that year's complaints
  • slow 2019, 2021 peak 11.5% of that year's complaints
  • motor 2005, 2017 peak 10.1% of that year's complaints
  • undisclosed 2022, 2024 peak 7.7% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 0 recalls 5 complaints
  2. 2025 4 recalls 79 complaints
  3. 2024 4 recalls 142 complaints
  4. 2023 4 recalls 51 complaints
  5. 2022 3 recalls 57 complaints
  6. 2021 0 recalls 78 complaints
  7. 2020 1 recall 86 complaints
  8. 2019 4 recalls 212 complaints
  9. 2018 3 recalls 202 complaints
  10. 2017 5 recalls 237 complaints
  11. 2016 4 recalls 323 complaints
  12. 2015 4 recalls 100 complaints
  13. 2014 4 recalls 93 complaints
  14. 2013 6 recalls 124 complaints
  15. 2012 7 recalls 294 complaints
  16. 2011 9 recalls 185 complaints
  17. 2010 parts distribution 873 complaints
  18. 2009 lens 518 complaints
  19. 2008 11 recalls 445 complaints
  20. 2007 10 recalls 540 complaints
  21. 2006 frame 782 complaints
  22. 2005 frame 707 complaints

What does a Toyota Tacoma say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.