2007 TOYOTA TUNDRA — Complaint #953268
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY:MOUNTING filed December 11, 2012
NHTSA complaint #953268 (ODI reference 10488013) concerns a 2007 TOYOTA TUNDRA and was filed on December 11, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 12, 2011. The vehicle had 52,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Massachusetts based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, gasoline:storage:tank assembly:mounting, 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 fuel system, gasoline:storage:tank assembly:mounting 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 2007 TOYOTA TUNDRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 TOYOTA TUNDRA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE BOLT FOR THE FUEL TANK FRACTURED AND DETACHED FROM THE VEHICLE. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALER WHERE THE CONTACT WAS ADVISED THAT THE FAILURE WAS CONTRIBUTED TO RUST AND THE FUEL TANK STRAPS WERE COMPLETELY RUSTED. THE CONTACT WAS TOLD BY THE MANUFACTURER THAT THEY WOULD EXTEND HIS WARRANTY TO COVER HALF OF THE REPAIR COSTS. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS UNKNOWN, BUT THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 57,000. UPDATED 01/29/13*LJ UPDATED 1/30/2013 *JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 953268 |
| ODI Number | 10488013 |
| Date Filed | December 11, 2012 |
| Failure Date | December 12, 2011 |
| VIN | 5TBBV54167S |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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