Bulletins
| Bulletin | Bulletin date | Replacement Bulletin | Item no. | Summary | Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNKNOWN OR OTHER | |||||
| 00407 | 10/26/2007 | 10023616 | Driver and passenger's side floor mats. *nj | 01/14/2008 | |
Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNKNOWN OR OTHER | |||
| 10/29/2012 | 72000 | ||
| My truck has a vibration in the rear of the truck we have balanced the drive line 3 times replaced both u-joints and there is still a vibration between 30 and 40 miles per hour. i took it to the toyota dearer ship and they keep it almost 2 weeks and first said it was the tires, and then the transmission and then the wheels and then maybe if i spent the money and put a new drive line on that might fix the problem but not sure. i have been out over 1,000 dollars and no luck with fixing the problem. | |||
| 12/05/2010 | 26856 | ||
| 1. stopping at red light. 2. engine suddenly accelerated while my right foot was on the brake. i have felt it kind of jump in the past but this was the first time i can say with confidence that the engine revved on its on own beyond my control. 3. after trying to shift it to neutral and park, i cut off the engine and started it again; engine stilled revved beyond my control. i cut off the engine again, pumped the accelerator, and restarted. this time the engine started normal rpm. plan to take it to local dealership to have diagnostics performed. | |||
| 12/19/2008 | |||
| My son and i were going to the courthouse. i do not know what component to blame the problem on, so i will just describe what happened. my son was a witness to the incident: i was trying to parallel park. my right foot was still pressing on the brake as i put the gear in r. when i did this, i heard an extremely loud whir from the rear wheels. i immediately put my truck in neutral. my truck was still not properly aligned in the parking spot: there was a car parked on the left that could hit me. i put the car in d. then i again heard an extremely loud whir from the rear wheels, so i pressed down completely on the brake, but my truck still moved forward and crashed into the car parked in front of me. my truck kept pushing into that car parked in front of me, so i immediately put my truck into parking gear and this stopped my truck. i took my truck to the toyota dealer and the dealer blamed the problem on the floormat. the dealer made the process of investigating the case and getting a satisfactory resolution too bureaucratic, so i just gave up and did not pursue the matter so i do not know what the case # is at the dealership. an example of the bureaucratic headache: i wanted to do a trade, but if i did that, i had to pay another $7,000, and i did not have that kind of money. there was another witness identified in the police report. according to the police report, this witness #1 advised that he came to his vehicle and adjusted where he parked. he advised that as he was getting out, he observed vehicle #1's [my vehicle] tires began to spin. he jumped back into his vehicle and observed it [my vehicle] crash into the curb and vehicle #2. the police report ends with: there were leaves on the ground around where the crash occurred. | |||
| 08/30/2010 | 19000 | ||
| 2007 tacoma truck. upon starting truck it went into a hi-speed idle pegging the tac. turned off ignation and restarted after about 5 seconds. same result. waited about 10 seconds normal operation on third start. it sounded like a jet had landed in my drive way. called dealer. stated that unless check engine was on there is no trouble code to be displayed. as of this date (8-30-10) i will not let my wife or anyone else drive this auto. | |||
| 02/01/2008 | 7000 | ||
| Unintended acceleration. the vehicle started speeding up like cruise control was engaged even after the gas pedal released. the only way to disengage was to pump the gas pedal until it released. | |||
| 01/30/2007 | 500 | ||
| My 2007 toyota tacoma, i had experiencing the engine revving quite high when my foot is on the brakes. this happened intermittently over the past 3 years. my other symptom is sometimes i feel like there is no brakes . that is i hit the brakes and nothing happens. i had to pump the brakes a few times. | |||
| 08/15/2009 | 38000 | 1 | |
| After pulling into a parking spot, prior to changing the gear from drive to park, the engine revved up violently on it's own. my foot was no longer on the accelerator. luckily, i was able to apply hard and fast pressure to the brake pedal as soon as the engine roared, and put the truck in park before lurching into the brick wall in front of me. i turned the truck off, and restarted it. it started normally, and i had no more problems with it. this happened in the summer of 2009, and hasn't happened since. i marked it up as being some strange eletro-mechanical anomoly, but after receiving toyota's ridiculous 'floor-mat' explanation and hearing how wide-spread this problem was, i wanted to go on record that the 2007 toyota tacoma suffers from the same unexplained safety hazard as the vehicles listed in the january 2010 toyota recall. it would have been bad enough hitting that wall, but someone could have been walking in front of me. this is not a good thing. *cn | |||