2006 Toyota Tacoma
Complaints about this year name frame far more often than the other years of this generation — 31% of them, about 3× the usual rate of 10.6%.
Generation 1 of the Toyota Tacoma, which began in 2005 and ran to 2015. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 782 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 185 |
| Involving a crash | 66 |
| Involving a fire | 7 |
| Recalls | 11 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- rusted — 14.3% of this year's complaints, against 5% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: rusted, severely, rusted out.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Also unusual this year
- rust — 18% of complaints, 4× usual
- rusted — 13% of complaints, 3× usual
What owners wrote
WENT TO GET MY CAR INSPECTED AND IT FAILED FOR A RUSTED FRAME. DID SOME RESEARCH AND FOUND OUT IT'S UNDER RECALL.
The frame of the vechile completely rusted, not normally rusted, its obvious that cheap or bad quality material. If it goes like this will break soon.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V743000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V604000 SUSPENSION
- 16V396000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 13V337000 SEAT BELTS
- 12V092000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 09V388000 VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 09V223000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 10V035000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 11. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Tacoma was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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