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2000 TOYOTA TUNDRA — Complaint #628062

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM filed June 22, 2007

NHTSA complaint #628062 (ODI reference 10193979) concerns a 2000 TOYOTA TUNDRA and was filed on June 22, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 20, 1999. The vehicle had 15,000 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 service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum, 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:foundation components:drum 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 2000 TOYOTA TUNDRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2000 TOYOTA TUNDRA
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM
State
Texas
Mileage
15,000 mi

Complaint Description

2000 TUNDRA BRAKE VIBRATION ISSUE; PURCHASED AS COMPANY TRUCK OCT 1999, TOOK TO DEALER AT 15K FOR BRAKE VIBRATION; STATES ROTORS AND PADS REPLACED BUT IT NEVER REALLY GOT BETTER, I JUST GOT USED TO IT. COULD NOT CONSTANTLY TAKE TRUCK IN TO LOOSE FOR 2-3 DAYS THE DEALER REQUIRED SO I BEGAN USING MY PERSONAL MECHANIC OF YEARS. PERSONAL MECHANIC REPLACED PADS AND TURNED ROTORS AT 59K, PERSONAL MECHANIC CHANGED 2 OXYGEN SENSORS AT 67K (I HEARD THOSE WERE RECALLED PRIOR TO 80K), PERSONAL MECHANIC BECAME A NUT CASE OVER THESE BRAKES AT 88K, HE REPLACED ROTORS, DRUMS, PADS AND I STILL BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS.... I KNEW MY MECHANIC WAS SINCERE. I HAVE JUST LIVED WITH IT; I AM NOW AT 140K MILES AND A BIT SICK IN STOMACH FROM THE BRAKING ISSUES. I DECIDED TO HAVE ANOTHER AREA MECHANIC GIVE IT A GO; WHILE MY TRUCK IS IN SHOP I SURF WEB AND DISCOVER THIS HAS BEEN A SERIOUS ISSUE SINCE I DROVE OFF THE FREAKING LOT WITH THAT TRUCK. I'VE GOT RECEIPTS, NOT NECESSARILY IN ORDER BUT I HAVE THEM. T

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 628062
ODI Number 10193979
Date Filed June 22, 2007
Failure Date October 20, 1999
VIN 5TBBT4418YS

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.