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2009 Toyota Tacoma electrical system problems

40 complaints about electrical system have been filed for the 2009 Toyota Tacoma, which is 7% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
40 7% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
40,000 miles 38 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
1 and 1
Injuries and deaths
0 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When electrical system problems show up

Electrical system complaints by mileage, 2009 Toyota Tacoma Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 40,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 14 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 5 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 8 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 5 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 2 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 1 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 1 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 1 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 0 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 1 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 40,000 miles
Based on 38 complaints that include mileage. 71% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles14
20k to 40k miles5
40k to 60k miles8
60k to 80k miles5
80k to 100k miles2
100k to 120k miles1
120k to 140k miles1
140k to 160k miles1
160k to 180k miles0
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles1

What the data shows

Of the 38 electrical system complaints that report mileage, the median is about 40,000 miles, and 71% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 1 crash, 1 fire.

What owners wrote

The plastic housing/plastic lens covering the amber daytime running lights and the clear fog lights are burned, melted, cracked and broken. This is not due to any front end collision but due to the extreme heat generated by the original factory-installed light bulbs. The lights are generating so much heat that they are melting, burning and cracking the plastic housing which then breaks under driving stress.

Reported at 54,700 miles, June 2013 Fire

My one week old 2009 toyota tacoma truck's blue tooth function is defective. It will not read contacts from cell phone. I am supposed to enter my 500 ever changing contacts one by one into the truck's blue tooth system. Otherwise, I will have to look at my cell phone while driving, dial the number, then talk on the blue tooth. Toyota e-mailed that I should have known my cell phone is not compatible with their system.

Reported at 137 miles, September 2008

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