2009 Toyota Tundra
This year drew 38 complaints, which is too few to read anything into. A share of a small number moves too much: one owner writing about the same fault twice would swing it further than a real pattern does. So nothing is claimed about this year either way. The 13 recalls below are on file regardless, and are not affected by how many people filed complaints.
Generation 1 of the Toyota Tundra, which began in 2007 and ran to 2021. 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 | 38 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 127 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 13 |
| EPA combined | 15 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 21V920000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 21E103000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 14V743000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V689000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 16V396000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 11V148000 TIRES
- 11V185000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 11V278000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 13. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Tundra 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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