2001 TOYOTA TUNDRA — Complaint #1196490
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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:BODY:HOOD:HINGE AND ATTACHMENTS filed July 7, 2015
NHTSA complaint #1196490 (ODI reference 10732460) concerns a 2001 TOYOTA TUNDRA and was filed on July 7, 2015. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 28, 2015. The vehicle had 102,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Illinois based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:body:hood:hinge and attachments, 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. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
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 structure:body:hood:hinge and attachments 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 2001 TOYOTA TUNDRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2001 TOYOTA TUNDRA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE SECONDARY HOOD RELEASE-LEVER FRACTURED DUE TO CORROSION, WHICH MADE IT DIFFICULT TO OPEN THE HOOD. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE CONTACT WAS ADVISED THAT THE PART NEEDED WAS DISCONTINUED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 102,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1196490 |
| ODI Number | 10732460 |
| Date Filed | July 7, 2015 |
| Failure Date | June 28, 2015 |
| VIN | 5TBJN321X1S |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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