Recalls
| Campaign | Manufacturer | Manufacturing date | Type | # of units affected | Date Owner notified Mfg | Recall Initiated by | Manufacturers of recalled vehicles/products | Report Recieved Date | Record Creation Date | Regulation Part Number | FMVSS Number | |||||
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| 02V339000 | SOUTHEAST TOYOTA DISTRIBUTORS | V (Vehicle) | 176 | MFR | TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. | 12/17/2002 | 01/15/2003 | |||||||||
| Defect Summary | On certain sport utility vehicles equipped with five factory alloy wheels (model 6934 and 6936), with factory llat, and with port installed wr4, four alloy wheel upgrade processed at the jacksonville, florida port and distributed by southeast toyota distributors in the states of alabama, florida, georgia, north and south carolina, when the vehicles were processed at the port, an alloy tire/wheel upgrade was installed. the upgrade included 4 alloy wheels. the original spare tire/alloy wheel was not changed. the spare tire requires the use of a different style of wheel nut to attach it to the vehicle. | |||||||||||||||
| Consequence Summary | If the spare tire/wheel is installed on the vehicle using the wheel nuts provided for the upgrade alloy wheel, damage to the wheel could result and could eventually lead to a loose wheel. | |||||||||||||||
| Corrective Summary | Owners will be provided with different style lug nuts, a warning label for the spare re/alloy wheel, and an owner's manual addendum. | |||||||||||||||
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Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
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| WHEELS | |||
| 04/04/2006 | |||
| 2003 toyota highlander 4.0 have had serious problems with the brakes on this vehicle since i purchased it due to toyota originally installing brakes that are too small for the size of this vehicle. trying to get it to a stop is a problem and the brakes fail alot as well as the fact that they destroy the oem rotors and pads and i have replaced the pads several times as well as had the rotors turned twice and now need to replace all 4 rotors and pads due to this something really needs to be done to fix this issue per toyota. | |||
| WHEELS - LUGS/NUTS/BOLTS | |||
| 08/17/2003 | 2 | 02/14/2003 | |
| The locking lug nuts on the toyota highlander wheels break and fragment with sharp metal shards when they are removed with the matching lock lug socket and 1 foot wrench without any abnormal torsion. the equipped lug wrench is exactly 12 inches long (lever length). the lug nuts when broken cannot be removed to change the tires. this has happened twice: once on the highway and the second time with a new matching socket and the 12 wrench. the original locking lug nut had to be drilled off by the dealer. the person applying the torque weighs 153 lbs. patrick vanschoyck, m.d.*ak | |||