2000 TOYOTA TUNDRA — Complaint #1107192
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:LOWER BALL JOINT filed September 8, 2014
NHTSA complaint #1107192 (ODI reference 10631655) concerns a 2000 TOYOTA TUNDRA and was filed on September 8, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 6, 2014. The vehicle had 310,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Missouri based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:control arm:lower ball joint, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same TOYOTA TUNDRA cohort independently describe similar suspension:front:control arm:lower ball joint failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2000 TOYOTA TUNDRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 TOYOTA TUNDRA. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 35 MPH, THE LOWER BALL JOINT SEPARATED FROM THE SOCKET AND THE LOWER A FRAME DROPPED. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO THE CONTACT'S RESIDENCE. THE CONTACT ALSO MENTIONED THAT THE ORIGINAL BALL JOINT FAILED WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS INSPECTED. THE CONTACT, WHO IS A CERTIFIED MECHANIC, REPLACED THE BALL JOINT BUT THE FAILURE PERSISTED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE VIN WAS UNAVAILABLE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 310,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1107192 |
| ODI Number | 10631655 |
| Date Filed | September 8, 2014 |
| Failure Date | September 6, 2014 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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