1995 TOYOTA PICKUP — Complaint #800346
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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:LINKAGES:ROD:RELAY:CONNECTING filed July 19, 2010
NHTSA complaint #800346 (ODI reference 10343959) concerns a 1995 TOYOTA PICKUP and was filed on July 19, 2010. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 19, 2005. The vehicle had 85,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania 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 PICKUP 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 1995 TOYOTA PICKUP shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 1995 TOYOTA PICKUP. THE CONTACT STATED THAT HIS VEHICLE WAS INCLUDED IN THE RECALL ASSOCIATED WITH NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER 05V389000 STEERING LINKAGES, ROD RELAY CONNECTING. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN AUTHORIZED DEALER BUT THE CONTACT WAS INFORMED THEY COULD NOT REPAIR THE VEHICLE SINCE THE IDLER ARM WAS STUCK WITHIN THE STEERING COLUMN. APPROXIMATELY FIVE YEARS LATER, THE CONTACT ATTEMPTED TO TURN THE LEFT TURN SIGNAL BUT IT WOULD NOT RESPOND. THE TURN SIGNAL WOULD NOT FUNCTION BECAUSE THE ALIGNMENT WITHIN THE STEERING COLUMN WAS NOT CORRECT. THE FAILURE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED BY THE DEALER. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 85,000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 103,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 800346 |
| ODI Number | 10343959 |
| Date Filed | July 19, 2010 |
| Failure Date | December 19, 2005 |
| VIN | 4TARN01PXSZ |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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