Complaint volume
373 consumer-submitted complaints are matched to this model year. Treat the count as a research signal, then read the actual summaries for repeated symptoms.
Complaint records
2023 Toyota Tundra Complaints
373 consumer-submitted complaints on record for the 2023 Toyota Tundra, grouped by component category.
373 Total complaints
7 Crash reports
5 Fire reports
3 Injury reports
Complaint data reflects consumer-submitted reports. A complaint is not proof
of a defect, recall, or manufacturer fault. Enriched severity fields come
from official bulk records when the complaint can be matched by ODI number.
Buyer interpretation
How to use these complaints before buying
Complaint records are most useful when they turn into inspection points, seller questions, and comparison checks against nearby model years.
Pattern to inspect
The most common categories are engine, engine and engine cooling, power train. Use those categories as a test-drive checklist instead of judging the vehicle from the total count alone.
Severity flags
Enriched records include 7 crash reports, 5 fire reports, 3 injury reports, and 0 fatality reports. These fields come from complaint records and should be read in context.
Mileage clue
Mileage is available on 47 complaints, with an average reported failure mileage of 29,637 miles. Compare that with the mileage on the listing.
Questions to ask the seller
- Have you had any problems related to engine, engine and engine cooling, power train?
- Can I see recent maintenance and repair records?
- Has the vehicle ever been towed, involved in a crash, or repaired for the same issue twice?
- Can we also check the recall record for this 2023 Toyota Tundra?
Used-car checklist
Use these complaints before the test drive.
Build a buyer checklist to turn these issues into questions and inspection points.
2023 Toyota Tundra
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How severe are the 2023 Toyota Tundra complaints?
7 Crash
5 Fire
3 Injury
0 Fatality
15 Towed
3 Medical attention
What are the most common 2023 Toyota Tundra complaint categories?
ENGINE 65
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING 28
POWER TRAIN 27
UNKNOWN OR OTHER 24
FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM 18
POWER TRAIN,ENGINE 15
FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE 10
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL 9
POWER TRAIN,ENGINE,FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM 7
SERVICE BRAKES 7
373 total complaints on record
Latest complaints
| Date | Component | Summary | Severity | Mileage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2025 | ENGINE | The contact owned a 2023 Toyota Tundra. The contact stated while driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle was erratically shaking and several unknown warning lights illuminated. The vehicle lost motive power. The contact stated that the interior of the vehicle was extremely hot. The contact exited the vehicle and noticed smoke exiting from underneath the hood. The contact then noticed a fire under the hood. The contact called the local fire department. The fire department extinguished the fire. The vehicle was towed to the dealer. No injuries were sustained. The contact's personal items in the vehicle were damaged. The vehicle was condemned as a total loss by the insurance company. In addition, the contact stated that the failure occurred just minutes after the vehicle was serviced at the dealer for a 45,000-mile routine service appointment. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and a case was filed. The failure mileage was approximately 45,000. | Crash: No Fire: Yes Towed | 45,000 |
| Mar 2025 | ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING | The contact owns a 2023 Toyota Tundra. The contact received notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 24V381000 (Engine and Engine Cooling); however, the part to do the recall repair was unavailable. The contact stated that the manufacturer had exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The contact stated while driving at an undisclosed speed and depressing the accelerator pedal, the vehicle hesitated before accelerating as intended. The contact stated that the vehicle intermittently hesitated before accelerating as intended while depressing the accelerator pedal. The contact stated that the failure occurred at various speeds. The contact had not taken the vehicle to an independent mechanic or dealer. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The contact related the failure to NHTSA Campaign Number: 24V381000 (Engine and Engine Cooling). The failure mileage was approximately 50,000. VIN tool confirms parts not available. | Crash: No Fire: No | 50,000 |
| Mar 2025 | POWER TRAIN | The engine began to misfire and stumble while idling. There was smoke present from the tail pipe when you would take off from the stop light. After Toyota ran an oil consumption campaign they came to the conclusion that the valve guides were bad and they need to replace both heads on the vehicle. It took 3 week for the repairs to be completed. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2025 | ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING | The contact owns a 2023 Toyota Tundra. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle lost motive power with the oil warning light illuminated. The contact received notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 24V381000 (Engine and Engine Cooling); however, the part to do the recall repair was unavailable. The vehicle was towed to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the engine assembly had failed and needed to be replaced. The dealer confirmed that parts were not yet available. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact stated that the manufacturer had exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 89,062. VIN tool confirms parts not available. | Crash: No Fire: No Towed | 89,062 |
| Feb 2025 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | Hesitation from a stop. Truck has a delay when pressing on accelerator nearly causing a collision. This happens randomly. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2025 | ENGINE | Hesitation when driving when first start the truck and after the trucks been on awhile. Always has been doing this | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2025 | VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | When at a 2 way stop sign, for example, I am fully stopped, foot on the break, I see that there is a break in the cross traffic that indicates that I am safe to cross. I hit the gas and the car does not move for a few seconds. By now the car has me in danger and the other drivers who are coming towards me in the cross traffic. I count on the car to go when I hit the gas, especially when trying to get across a busy street or accelerating from a stop to merge into moving traffic. When the car does not move for a few seconds after hitting the gas, I’ve now been put in danger and have caused a disruption in the flow of traffic as well as putting others in danger. No lights on the dash indicate an issue, the truck is in normal mode, and I have not had this confirmed by a dealer yet, but I’ve read many testimonials from other 2023 tundra drivers having the same issue. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2025 | POWER TRAIN,FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM | After braking or coming to a momentary stop, such as a stop sign, the tundra’s throttle is delayed for 2-3 seconds. Full pedal to floor, no acceleration. Extremely scary when it occurs, results in pulling out into traffic and having to wait 2-3 seconds before accelerating. It seems to be the ECM hunting for gears after slowing, hesitating, then selecting 6th gear and bottoming out before downshifting to 2nd and nearly burning out as it finally accelerates away from rapidly approaching traffic. Often happens, or is noticed more frequently, when turning right from a stop sign. Please have Toyota fix this, they are not acknowledging there is an issue! | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2025 | POWER TRAIN,ENGINE,FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM | Hesitation when trying to accelerate. When I come to a stop sign and hit the gas, there’s always a hesitation | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2025 | POWER TRAIN | Truck sporadically will not accelerate from stop without significant lag when gas pedal is pressed. Happens infrequently, but typically occurs after truck is started. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2025 | POWER TRAIN,ENGINE | There is a lag in the accelerator. It happens 10 to 20% of the time. It is a one or two second lag on the gas pedal. Pretty critical when turning out into traffic. I have al most been hit twice due to car not accelerating properly. I have taken to the dealer twice. They have told me they could not recreate when driving | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2025 | POWER TRAIN,UNKNOWN OR OTHER,ENGINE | Hesitation From Stop and Surge Concerns. this may cause traffic surge, collison in my front for having no control of the speed if I end up pressing the gas all the way which it cause a quick surge of speed, due to the hesitation when pressing the gas, this happened to my car for a lot of times now which I ignored it until I saw the help from the Toyota Tundra forum, that I can actually send a report to NHTSA. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2025 | VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | Truck will have a very bad hesitation when coming to a stop and trying to accelerate again before a complete stop. Many times this has almost got me into an accident when trying to pull out into traffic. You will push the gas and there in a 2-3 second delay before the truck will even move. This often makes it a very close call if you’re not expecting it. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2025 | POWER TRAIN,UNKNOWN OR OTHER | Vehicle suffers from power failure response intermittently when attempting to accelerate. Sometimes it feels as it’s its sputtering before getting a sudden jolt of acceleration. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2025 | ENGINE | 2023 Toyota Tundra with 31,000 miles on it and the main bearings was knocking and engine about to cease, Toyota has a recall for this exact same thing on truck that where produced two months earlier so I am told they are replacing the hole engine but for mine Toyota only wants to just do a half block when that main bearings goes it will put metal shavings though out the engine that’s why they are replacing the hole engine why not my truck. Have bought 4 Toyota had a 07 Tundra from new put 320,000 miles on it not a lick of trouble and cost half the price. No warning lights came on. Thought engine was going to explode. Has only been serviced and inspected by Toyota dealership. My advice don’t buy a new tundra. So let the run around begin on trying to get it fixed and for how long. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2025 | POWER TRAIN | The vehicle is a great vehicle. However, I have been noticing that my transmission fluid temperatures rise quickly, whether on the highway or when driving around town. I spoke to a Toyota dealership, and they told me that the proper operating temperatures for the transmission are between 167 degrees and 185 degrees. the temperatures on my transmissions have gotten past 200 degrees. I feel that it is a safety issue because if I am towing or driving long distances or in stop-and-go traffic over time, the transmission may cause a breakdown and then I will be stuck in the middle of traffic. It is a pretty big and heavy vehicle to push off the roadway, and way too expensive to allow someone to push me off of the roadway. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Feb 2025 | VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | Sometimes my truck hesitates from leaving a complete stop. I will press on the accelerator and there is throttle lag response, which causes me to pull out slower than expected. There was one time where I pulled out and lost throttle power in traffic. I have taken it to the dealer and reported this Issue. They flashed the ECU and said that was the only fix they had, but it didn’t do much difference I still experienced the throttle lag from a dead stop. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Jan 2025 | POWER TRAIN,ENGINE,FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM | Consistently this vehicle experiences a hesitation to accelerate from a stop or rolling stop such as a stop sign or at a round about type intersection. When this occurs there may be up to a 2 second delay from when I press the accelerator to when the vehicle moves and once it does begin to move it will jump forward rapidly. I have had several near miss collisions upon entering round abouts when this occurs as well as at several stop sign intersections. This problem has existed from when the vehicle was at about 5,000 miles. I have reported this condition to the Toyota dealer on 2 occasions and they tell me Toyota does not recognize this is an issue and there is no fix. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Jan 2025 | SERVICE BRAKES,ENGINE,BACK OVER PREVENTION | The engine has 13,441 miles on it and it has been consuming 4 quarts of oil in 1700 miles. The dealer sealed the engine and is performing an oil consumption test. Approximately 500 mile into the test the check engine light started flashing due to a misfire. The dealer found that the #1plug was fouled out and had to be replaced. At 1029 miles into the test the truck was idling in a parking lot for about 8 minutes when it started to misfire and stumble. After stepping on the throttle to clear out the misfire, the dash lit flashing multiple warnings including the breaking system was stuck on hindering the truck from being able to move. After several restarts and playing with the parking brake I managed to get the parking brake off. It still had the flashing check engine light on and flashing. The pre-collision light was flashing, along with the traction control light was flashing and none of the safety systems were working. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Jan 2025 | POWER TRAIN | Even after the recall / tcm reprogram, this truck will especially when cold and rolling away from a stop after deceleration stall / stutter for a few seconds before it starts accelerating again. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Jan 2025 | VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL,LANE DEPARTURE | Hesitation from a stop. Vehicle isn’t following pedal input and at times can put me into a side collision. Lane keep assist is dangerous and throws me off the road constantly. At times the lane assist will fight my input at the wheel and pull me off-road and over the lines. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Jan 2025 | POWER TRAIN,ENGINE | Excessive hesitation in acceleration from stop or slow start. No warnings displayed car has less than 18000 miles. The excessive hesitation poses a real danger when pulling into traffic or trying to avoid an accident. The truck can randomly take several seconds to respond to accelerator input. This issue halls been reported my many 2022 and later Tundra owner. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Jan 2025 | POWER TRAIN,ENGINE | Vehicle hesitates when accelerating from a stop. Feels like the engine may stall and the vehicle will not respond to throttle inputs. Very unsafe as I may not be able to accelerate to avoid an accident. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Jan 2025 | ENGINE | My Tundra has a build date of January, 2023. The Engine recall by Toyota included models up till February 13, 2023. I want to know specifically why my vehicle was not included in the recall even though it was built within the recall period. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |
| Jan 2025 | POWER TRAIN | At certain times when starting (pressing the accelerator pedal) from a total stop, or from when rolling very slowly, the tuck creeps forward but there is up to a two second delay in start of increase of engine revs and power being delivered. This is quite scary when pulling out into traffic. When the power comes on it tends to surge with rapid acceleration for a very short time. To be clear, no accident has occurred and there are no warning lights on the dash. However, I feel that this vehicle behavior creates a significant hazard worth highlighting. Once the vehicle starts moving, it goes back to normal operation within seconds. It’s not a consistent issue - it does not happen very frequently - but I’ve had it since the truck was new and it has 27k miles on it now. I have made several complaints to the maker and my dealer at every service, but they fail to replicate / recognize this issue after a number of tests drives. I went on a test drive with one dealer tech and when we replicated this issue I was told that ‘all trucks are like this’. There is a technical service bulletin fix for this, but the maker has refused to do it on my truck and others have reported that it did not resolve the issue on their trucks. From online forums, this seems to be a common issue on non-hybrid models. The truck transmission also tends to thud into drive when cold and the chances of the hesitation / surge issue occurring is higher just after a cold start (‘cold start’ being a relative term in South Texas). It most often occurs at the nearest stop sign just after I leave home, but does occur randomly at other times. | Crash: No Fire: No | Unknown |