2016 Toyota Tundra
This year drew an ordinary 119 complaints for a Toyota Tundra — the model's median is 127. What they were about is the unusual part: 31.1% of them mention controller, against 11.9% across the other years of this generation.
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 | 119 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 127 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 15 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- controller — 31.1% of this year's complaints, against 11.9% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: controller, brake controller, electric, mode.
- work — 18.5% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the other years of this generation (2.9×).
- situation — 14.3% of this year's complaints, against 4.8% across the other years of this generation (3×). Owners wrote it as: situation, manually, expected, provides.
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.
What owners wrote
THE INTEGRATED BRAKE CONTROLLER IS NOT WORK WHEN APPLYING THE BRAKES IN ELECTRIC BRAKE MODE. TOOK MY TUNDRA OUT FOR A TEST DRIVE WITH MY 24' 3200 LB TRAVEL TRAILER. I SET THE GAIN TO 10 AND HIT THE MANUAL SLIDE AND THE TRAILER TIRES LOCKED UP. STEPPED ON THE B…
THE INTEGRATED BRAKE CONTROLLER DOES NOT WORK. DEALER HAD NO FIX. WHEN SET FOR ELECTRIC BRAKES, THE MANUAL SLIDER DOES APPLY BRAKES TO THE TRAILER BUT WHEN APPLYING FOOT PEDAL BRAKING, THERE IS NO BRAKES BEING APPLIED TO THE TRAILER. WHILE RESEARCHING THIS ONL…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V416000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V051000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 17V311000 WHEELS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V420000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 21V920000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 21E103000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
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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