1994 TOYOTA TRUCK — Complaint #627514
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:LINKAGES:ROD:RELAY:CONNECTING filed June 18, 2007
NHTSA complaint #627514 (ODI reference 10193588) concerns a 1994 TOYOTA TRUCK and was filed on June 18, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 14, 2007. The vehicle had 181,547 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:linkages:rod:relay:connecting, 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 TRUCK cohort independently describe similar steering:linkages:rod:relay:connecting 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 1994 TOYOTA TRUCK shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
INTERMITTENT LOUD NOISE FROM STEERING WHEN TURNING THE VEHICLE. I FOUND RECALL 05V389000 FOR A STEERING RELAY ROD PROBLEM WITH VEHICLE AND CONTACTED TOYOTA A T 1-800-331-4331 ABOUT THE RECALL IN DECEMBER 2006. TOYOTA ADVISED ME THIS VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL DUE TO THE VIN. PROBLEM CONTINUED UNTIL I HAD THE VEHICLE SERVICED BY MY LOCAL TOYOTA DEALERSHIP IN JUNE 2007. THE DEALERSHIP ADVISED THE STEERING RELAY ROD WAS CRACKED AND NEEDED REPLACEMENT. ACCORDING TO THE INVOICE THE PART REPLACED WAS 45450-39175. THE SERVICE MANAGER AT THE DEALERSHIP WAS INFORMED OF THE RECALL, AND HE ADVISED THAT THE PART THEY REPLACED WAS THE SAME PART INVOLVED IN THE RECALL. I DID NOT KNOW IF THE DEALERSHIP STILL HAS THE OLD PART. I CONTACTED TOYOTA AGAIN ON 6/18/2007 AT THE TOLL FREE # ABOVE AND WAS ADVISED THAT PART #45450-39175 WAS NOT THE PART INCLUDED IN RECALL 05V389000; HOWEVER, THEIR REPRESENTATIVE WOULD NOT PROVIDE ME WITH THE PART # OF THE STEERING RELAY ROD INVOLVED IN T
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 627514 |
| ODI Number | 10193588 |
| Date Filed | June 18, 2007 |
| Failure Date | June 14, 2007 |
| VIN | JT4VN93G9R5 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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