2000 Toyota Tundra defect investigations
Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2000 Toyota Tundra. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.
- FRAME CORROSIONPreliminary Evaluation PE09049 · opened Oct 6, 2009 · closed Jan 26, 2010 · led to recall 09V444000
This investigation was opened based on 20 reports of model year (my) 2000 and 2001 vehicles experiencing severe corrosion of the frame, resulting in either under-body mounted spare tire separation or rear brake failure.the failure report counts shown above are for my 2000 and 2001 vehicles only.by letter of november 16…