2006 TOYOTA TUNDRA — Complaint #1495653
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST:HYDRAULIC:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS filed August 30, 2018
NHTSA complaint #1495653 (ODI reference 11123520) concerns a 2006 TOYOTA TUNDRA and was filed on August 30, 2018. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 24, 2018. The vehicle had 117,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Tennessee based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:power assist:hydraulic:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings, 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 service brakes, hydraulic:power assist:hydraulic:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings 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 APPROXIMATELY 60 MPH ON THE HIGHWAY, A TRACTOR TRAILER ENTERED THE CONTACT'S LANE. THE CONTACT DEPRESSED THE BRAKE PEDAL AND IT BECAME STUCK TO THE FLOORBOARD. THE CONTACT DESCRIBED THE FAILURE AS A COMPLETE LOSS OF BRAKE FUNCTION. IN AN EFFORT TO AVOID A CRASH, THE VEHICLE WAS DOWNSHIFTED TO THIRD GEAR AND THEN SECOND GEAR TO STOP THE VEHICLE. THE CONTACT DROVE TO TOYOTA KNOXVILLE (10415 PARKSIDE DRIVE, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 37922, (865) 312-6618) WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE BRAKE LINES FAILED. THE FRONT AND REAR BRAKE LINES WERE REPAIRED. IN ADDITION, THE FUEL TANK BRACKET WAS REPLACED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURES AND PROVIDED THE CONTACT WITH CASE NUMBER: 1808302087. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 117,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1495653 |
| ODI Number | 11123520 |
| Date Filed | August 30, 2018 |
| Failure Date | August 24, 2018 |
| VIN | 5TBDT44126S |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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