2005 TOYOTA TACOMA — Complaint #664710
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST:HYDRAULIC filed April 7, 2008
NHTSA complaint #664710 (ODI reference 10223599) concerns a 2005 TOYOTA TACOMA and was filed on April 7, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 16, 2008. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:power assist:hydraulic, 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 TACOMA cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:power assist:hydraulic 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 2005 TOYOTA TACOMA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
AFTER READING A NEWS ARTICLE ABOUT UNINTENDED ACCELERATION IN 2005 -07 TACOMA PICKUPS, I WAS REMINDED OF AN INCIDENT I HAD A FEW MONTHS BACK. INDEED MY TACOMA SURGED WHEN I HIT THE BRAKE. WHEN THIS HAPPENED, I REALIZED MY FOOT WAS ON BOTH THE BRAKE AND THE ACCELERATOR. I HAD TO PICK UP MY FOOT AND RE-APPLY THE BRAKE. THERE WAS NO MALFUNCTION ON THE CAR'S PART, BUT THE PEDALS ARE POSITIONED TOO CLOSE, AND AT THE SAME DISTANCE FROM THE FLOORBOARD, WHICH MAKES IT MUCH TOO EASY TO PRESS THEM AT THE SAME TIME. THIS SHOULD INDEED BE REMINDED, FOR IT IS A REAL PROBLEM. IT IS EASY A THE DRIVER TO ASSUME THAT THEY ARE ONLY PRESSING THE BRAKE BECAUSE THE BRAKE PEDAL REQUIRES MORE PRESSURE THAN THE ACCELERATOR. I COULD HARDLY FEEL THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL UNDER THE RIGHT SIDE OF MY FOOT WHILE I PRESSED ON THE BRAKE, BUT I WAS DEPRESSING BOTH AT THE SAME TIME. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 664710 |
| ODI Number | 10223599 |
| Date Filed | April 7, 2008 |
| Failure Date | February 16, 2008 |
| VIN | 5TEKU72N45Z |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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