2016 TOYOTA 4RUNNER — Complaint #1495700
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT filed August 30, 2018
NHTSA complaint #1495700 (ODI reference 11123559) concerns a 2016 TOYOTA 4RUNNER and was filed on August 30, 2018. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 29, 2018. The vehicle had 18,445 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Arizona based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:driveline:constant velocity 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 4RUNNER cohort independently describe similar power train:driveline:constant velocity 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 2016 TOYOTA 4RUNNER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2016 TOYOTA 4RUNNER. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE TO PRECISION TOYOTA OF TUCSON (520-795-5565, 700 W WETMORE RD, TUCSON, AZ 85705) FOR ROUTINE SERVICE. THE DEALER DIAGNOSED THAT THE INNER CONSTANT VELOCITY BOOT LEAKED OIL AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THERE WAS NO WARNING INDICATOR ILLUMINATED. THE CONTACT WAS INFORMED THAT THE PART WAS NOT COVERED UNDER WARRANTY. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE AND STATED THAT THE PART WAS NOT COVERED BY THE WARRANTY. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 18,445.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1495700 |
| ODI Number | 11123559 |
| Date Filed | August 30, 2018 |
| Failure Date | August 29, 2018 |
| VIN | JTEBU5JR6G5 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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