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2001 TOYOTA TUNDRA — Complaint #655200

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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:LOWER BALL JOINT filed January 26, 2008

NHTSA complaint #655200 (ODI reference 10216159) concerns a 2001 TOYOTA TUNDRA and was filed on January 26, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 24, 2008. The vehicle had 105,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:control arm:lower ball 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 TUNDRA cohort independently describe similar suspension:front:control arm:lower ball 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 2001 TOYOTA TUNDRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2001 TOYOTA TUNDRA
Component
SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:LOWER BALL JOINT
State
California
Mileage
105,000 mi

Complaint Description

MY SON WAS DRIVING MY 2001 TUNDRA 4X4, ON HIGHWAY 1, WEST OF WATSONVILLE CALIFORNIA, AT APPROXIMATELY 65 MPH ON STRAIGHT AND LEVEL FREEWAY THE LEFT FRONT LOWER BALL JOINT FAILED DETACHING, EXCEPT FOR BRAKE LINES, THE LEFT FRONT WHEEL. THE VEHICLE SKIDDED ON WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE BALL JOINT ASSEMBLY AND HE WAS ABLE TO CONTROL THE VEHICLE TO THE CENTER MEDIAN. THE TRUCK SUSTAINED MINOR BODY DAMAGE AND LUCKILY NO INJURIES TO MY SON OR THE PASSENGER. TOYOTA HAS AGREED TO REPAIR THE DAMAGED BALL JOINT BUT NOT THE BODY DAMAGE OR THE NON DAMAGED BALL JOINT. I AM NOT COMFORTABLE DRIVING THE VEHICLE ANY LONGER. *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 655200
ODI Number 10216159
Date Filed January 26, 2008
Failure Date January 24, 2008
VIN 5TBBT44131S

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