2008 TOYOTA TUNDRA — Complaint #1919142
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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:FRAME AND MEMBERS filed August 15, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1919142 (ODI reference 11538619) concerns a 2008 TOYOTA TUNDRA and was filed on August 15, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 4, 2023. The vehicle had 171,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Massachusetts based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:frame and members, 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:frame and members 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 2008 TOYOTA TUNDRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact's husband owns a 2008 Toyota Tundra. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, a fellow motorist alerted her husband that an unknown part had been hanging from underneath the vehicle. Upon inspection, the contact's husband discovered that the fuel tank had detached from the vehicle due to severe corrosion. The contact stated that several years prior, the vehicle had been subjected to an unknown recall related to corrosion. The contact stated that a special coating was sprayed on the vehicle to prevent corrosion; however, the recall remedy failed to prevent the corrosion. The dealer was notified of the failure but offered no assistance. The manufacturer had yet to be notified of the failure. The vehicle had yet to be repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 171,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1919142 |
| ODI Number | 11538619 |
| Date Filed | August 15, 2023 |
| Failure Date | August 4, 2023 |
| VIN | 5TBDV54188S |
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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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