2004 TOYOTA TUNDRA — Complaint #1342030
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:STABILIZER BAR filed December 19, 2016
NHTSA complaint #1342030 (ODI reference 10936169) concerns a 2004 TOYOTA TUNDRA and was filed on December 19, 2016. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 12, 2016. The vehicle had 140,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:stabilizer bar, 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 suspension:front:stabilizer bar 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 2004 TOYOTA TUNDRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
FRONT SUSPENSION STABILIZER BAR RUSTED OFF OF FRAME, RESULTING IN LARGE, STRUCTURALLY COMPROMISING HOLE IN THE WELDING LOCATION ON THE FRAME. WHEN TURNING INTO MY DRIVEWAY I HEARD THE STABILIZER BAR DETACH FROM THE FRAME. THE DRIVEWAY IS MODESTLY SLOPED WHICH CAUSED MY LEFT WHEEL SUSPENSION TO FLEX AS IT WOULD IN ANY ORDINARY DRIVING CONDITIONS. UPON INSPECTION OF THE FRAME, I NOTICED THAT THE DETACHMENT RESULTED IN A SMALL HOLE. UPON CLEANING UP THE EFFECTED AREA, HOWEVER, I NOTICED A MASSIVE HOLE IN THE FRAME. LITTLE DID I REALIZE THAT I HAD BEEN DRIVING ON A COMPLETELY UNSAFE VEHICLE THIS WHOLE TIME. TOYOTA HAS A RECALL IN PLACE FOR THESE EXACT SAME COMPONENTS FOR 2000 -2003 TOYOTA TUNDRAS. WHY ISN'T THERE A RECALL IN PLACE FOR THESE? THEY ARE THE SAME PARTS. THE FIRST TWO PHOTOS ARE BEFORE WIRE BRUSHING THE AREA. THE LAST TWO ARE FROM AFTER BRUSHING THEM. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1342030 |
| ODI Number | 10936169 |
| Date Filed | December 19, 2016 |
| Failure Date | November 12, 2016 |
| VIN | 5TBBT44154S |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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