Toyota: 21 published Texas lemon law decisions
Every published TxDMV decision naming Toyota, for case-years 2014-2026, with what each order did and a link to the order itself.
This is not a census of Texas lemon vehicles, and no number on this page is a defect rate. Confidential settlements, manufacturer buybacks agreed before a hearing, and complaints withdrawn along the way never enter this corpus at all and are structurally invisible to it. What is counted here is contested proceedings that reached a published decision, which is a small and non-random slice of everything that goes wrong with a vehicle in Texas.
A manufacturer with more decisions here is not "more of a lemon" than one with fewer. It may simply have sold far more units in Texas, or its owners may be likelier to push a dispute to a contested hearing rather than settle. There is no sales or registration denominator behind these counts, so the division that would turn them into a rate cannot be done, and this site does not publish one.
What these 21 orders did
Counts of published proceedings naming Toyota. These are not shares of anything: there is no figure here for how many vehicles Toyota sold in Texas, so no proportion computed from this table would mean what it appears to mean.
| What the order did | Decisions |
|---|---|
| Repurchase ordered | 2 |
| Repair ordered | 4 |
| Dismissed | 15 |
Which vehicles these decisions were about
Make and model exactly as the source documents print them, so a model that two orders name differently appears twice rather than being silently merged. A model appearing more often is not a defect rate.
| Vehicle | Decisions |
|---|---|
| Toyota Tundra | 3 |
| Toyota Camry | 2 |
| Toyota Corolla | 2 |
| Toyota Highlander Limited | 2 |
| Toyota RAV4 | 2 |
| Toyota Avalon | 1 |
| Toyota Crown | 1 |
| Toyota Highlander | 1 |
| Toyota Highlander Hybrid Limited | 1 |
| Toyota Prius | 1 |
| Toyota Sequoia | 1 |
| Toyota Sienna | 1 |
| Toyota Supra | 1 |
| Toyota Tacoma | 1 |
| Toyota Tundra Crewmax | 1 |
By vehicle model year
The model year of the vehicle at issue, not the year the decision issued.
| Model year | Decisions |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2 |
| 2017 | 3 |
| 2016 | 3 |
| 2015 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 |
Every Toyota decision
21 recordsNewest decision first. Every row links the source document it was read from.
Source PDF 2024 Toyota Tundra
intermittent main infotainment screen failure Repair ordered
Source PDF 2023 Toyota Crown
high-speed vibration and steering alignment defect Repurchase ordered
Source PDF 2018 Toyota Highlander Limited
antifreeze (coolant) odor in cabin Dismissed
Source PDF 2016 Toyota Avalon
intermittent power loss and hesitation on acceleration Dismissed
Source PDF 2014 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Limited
musty/moldy odor from air conditioning vents Dismissed
Source PDF 2012 Toyota Highlander Limited
electrical issues affecting satellite radio and Bluetooth connectivity Dismissed
The honest use of this page is to read the orders. Every row links the document it came from, and those documents say what happened in a specific dispute over a specific vehicle: what the defect was, how many repair attempts there were, and what the examiner ordered.
The dishonest use is to treat the number at the top as a quality score. It counts contested proceedings that reached a published decision, which is a function of how many vehicles a manufacturer sells in Texas, how its warranty department handles disputes before they get that far, and how likely its owners are to push a case to hearing rather than accept an offer. Those are three different things, and none of them is the reliability of the vehicle.