2006 TOYOTA TUNDRA — Complaint #1475964
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:UPPER BALL JOINT filed June 14, 2018
NHTSA complaint #1475964 (ODI reference 11101928) concerns a 2006 TOYOTA TUNDRA and was filed on June 14, 2018. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 11, 2016. The vehicle had 179,383 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:control arm:upper 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. 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:control arm:upper 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 2006 TOYOTA TUNDRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2006 TOYOTA TUNDRA. WHILE DRIVING AT UNKNOWN SPEEDS, THE FRONT DRIVER SIDE WHEEL DETACHED WITHOUT IMPACT FROM THE VEHICLE. THERE WERE NO WARNING INDICATORS ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO AUTONATION TOYOTA SOUTH AUSTIN (800-IH 35TH S, AUSTIN, TX 78745, (512) 900-1045) WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE DRIVER SIDE BALL JOINTS NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. THE CONTACT WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE BALL JOINTS ON THE PASSENGER SIDE. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE AND REFERRED THE CONTACT TO NHTSA. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 179,383.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1475964 |
| ODI Number | 11101928 |
| Date Filed | June 14, 2018 |
| Failure Date | February 11, 2016 |
| VIN | 5TBET34186S |
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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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