2006 TOYOTA TUNDRA — Complaint #662757
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:UPPER BALL JOINT filed March 23, 2008
NHTSA complaint #662757 (ODI reference 10222092) concerns a 2006 TOYOTA TUNDRA and was filed on March 23, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 14, 2008. The vehicle had 31,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New Mexico based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:control arm:upper 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:upper 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 2006 TOYOTA TUNDRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2006 TOYOTA TUNDRA UPPER SEALED FOR LIFE BALL JOINTS BOTH LEFT AND RIGHT STARTED LEAKING FROM SHAFT WHERE SEAL HAS ALLOWED LUBE TO ESCAPE THEREFORE A FAILED BALL JOINT. TOYOTA SAYS BALL JOINTS ARE A NORMAL WEAR ITEMS AND REFUSED WARRANTY REPAIR ON BOTH ITEMS AND SAID IT WAS OK FOR A SEALED FOR LIFE BALL JOINT TO LEAK AT THE SMALL TAPERED END OF THE SEAL WHERE IT CONNECTS TO THE SHAFT. THE BOOTS WERE NOT CRACKED OR TORN. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 662757 |
| ODI Number | 10222092 |
| Date Filed | March 23, 2008 |
| Failure Date | March 14, 2008 |
| VIN | 5TBDT44146S |
Similar SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:UPPER BALL JOINT Complaints for 2006 TOYOTA TUNDRA
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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