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2008 Toyota HIGHLANDER Electrical System Problems, Complaints and Defects

Issue ID	1378511
Internal NHTSA #	10986101
Manufacurer	Toyota Motor Corporation
Brand	TOYOTA
Model	HIGHLANDER
Model Year	2008
File date	16/05/17
Component	ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Product type code	VEHICLE
Description of the problem	At 5:00 pm on may 16, 2017 i drove home from work (15 minutes of in-town driving) everything was fine. I parked in the garage and went inside to prepare to leave with my family for my son's senior honors night. At 5;45 pm we got into the car and immediately my mom and my husband said, "what's burning?". It smelled like paper burning. Before leaving the house, my husband popped the hood to make sure there wasn't a wire or something else burning under the hood of the car. We dove 10 minutes to town to eat. We stayed in restaurant 30 minutes. When we returned to my car, my mother got in the passenger's front seat and and my husband in back and we all smelled a strong smell of something burning. I looked at my mom before starting the car and saw the black, burnt headrest. It appears there was an actual flame at some point. Everyone got out of the car, we removed the headrest, but the back left side of the passengers seat was still very hot to the touch. My husband drove the vehicle to the fire station nearby, since the toyota dealer was already closed. The firefighters unplugged the wires from the seat. The seat cooled back down.
Vehicle Mileage at Failure	144000
Number of Occurences
Source of the issue	NHTSA WEB SITE
City and State	WATKINSVILLE, GA
VIN pattern	JTEDS42A682XXXXXX
Was vehicle invloved in a crash?	N
Was vehicle involved in a fire?	Y
Was incedent reported to police?	N
Was medical attention required?	N
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Date of purchase	07/08/26
Was original owner?	N
Anti-lock brakes	N
Cruise control	N
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Vehicle speed	0
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What is Recall?
A recall is when a product is removed from the market or a correction is made to the product because it is either defective or potentially harmful.
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Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
What is Defect?
Non-conformance of a car component with the specified requirements, or non-fulfillment of user expectations, including the safety aspects.

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2008 Toyota HIGHLANDER Electrical System Problems, Complaints and Defects, Recalls and Failures

2008 Toyota HIGHLANDER Electrical System Problems, Complaints and Defects

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