Toyota Tacoma owners have reported a total of 10,276 problems for their cars built in the 31 model years listed in the chart below. The chart shows the number of problems reported across all service years for each given model year of the Toyota Tacoma. The 2006 Toyota Tacoma cars have the most problems reported (958 problems).
The following chart shows the 31 most common problems for Toyota Tacoma cars. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's structure (1,940 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's suspension (1,477 problems).
It would not be fair to compare the Toyota Tacoma of an older model year to newer model years since older vehicles have been in service longer and thus are expected to have more problems. In order to compare the reliability across Tacoma model years, we use the PPMY index which is defined as the problems reported per thousand vehicles per Year. A smaller PPMY index indicates greater reliability of the given model year cars.
PPMY = P / S / Y * 1000,
where P = total problems reported during the life of a Toyota Tacoma model year; S = total units sold of the model year; Y = years since the debut of the model year (the age of the vehicle).
The results are shown in Table 3.
| Tacoma Model Year | Problems | Sales [1] | Vehicle Age |
PPMY Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 71 | 240,232 | 4 | |
| 2021 | 106 | 287,716 | 5 | |
| 2020 | 119 | 205,032 | 6 | |
| 2019 | 289 | 259,844 | 7 | |
| 2018 | 266 | 206,765 | 8 | |
| 2017 | 305 | 276,249 | 9 | |
| 2016 | 414 | 175,720 | 10 | |
| 2015 | 135 | 187,018 | 11 | |
| 2014 | 129 | 139,828 | 12 | |
| 2013 | 164 | 172,009 | 13 | |
| 2012 | 401 | 127,803 | 14 | |
| 2011 | 220 | 122,520 | 15 | |
| 2010 | 337 | 111,681 | 16 | |
| 2009 | 607 | 116,059 | 17 | |
| 2008 | 556 | 146,311 | 18 | |
| 2007 | 670 | 165,845 | 19 | |
| 2006 | 958 | 195,709 | 20 | |
| 2005 | 859 | 151,776 | 21 | |
| 2004 | 531 | 159,348 | 22 | |
| 2003 | 468 | 130,885 | 23 | |
| 2002 | 433 | 162,322 | 24 | |
| 2001 | 489 | 160,294 | 25 | |
| 2000 | 269 | 142,518 | 26 |
Another way to measure the reliability across the model years of the Toyota Tacoma is to use the total number of problems reported during the vehicle's first year in service, as shown in the Table 4.
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