2006 Toyota Tundra: engine knocking or ticking

Filed Aug 8, 2024 · SC · 1 injury

June 14-15, 24 I was driving down the road when all of a sudden it felt like I hit something hard with the passenger front side of my truck. I knew there was nothing anywhere in the road other than potholes, so I was very shocked and worried of what it was. The truck jerked hard and slammed my head into the driver side window post almost knocking me out. It took all I had to keep from wrecking and hitting someone head on. Upon inspection, I saw that the frame had completely rusted through on the passenger side. I had a mechanic, body shop and several very experienced people look at it and have spoken with my insurance company and sent photos, but all are saying this is a serious life threatening Toyota issue where there were recalls and class action suits and they should be held accountable because they know there is a problem. Carfax didn’t show any issues and there were no apparent issues that stood out when I purchased the truck in Oct 2023. I still owe a lot on it and can’t drive it due to this issue. My mom spoke with a lady at Toyota who agreed that this never should’ve happened and that they would work with us to remedy the problem. Then she was transferred to another dept and then another dept and eventually told that Toyota has no open campaigns, the vehicle is out of warranty due to age and miles. No pictures were asked for even though they were offered as this is a serious safety problem that they know about. I was unaware at the time of purchase of this serous problem, but now that I’ve done a lot of research, I see that many have had similar incidents and luckily lived to write about it. Will the next one be so lucky? All I want is for Toyota to repair the vehicle. Toyota did tell my mom that a recall in 2016 had a rust plate/guard placed on the truck. It failed to work! Toyota needs to be held accountable for the many who are still having these issues. They are a large co.whi can afford to assist us who are struggling due to their sorry products.

Filed Oct 7, 2020 · Airbags · 170,000 miles · NC · crash · 1 injury

Tl* the contact owned a 2006 toyota tundra. The contact stated that her husband ran a stop sign and another vehicle crashed into his vehicle from the front right side fender and the vehicle overturned, knocking him out. The air bags did not deploy. A police report was filed. The contact stated that her husband sustained fractures on c2 vertebrae, sternal, lower lumber area, thoracic vertebrae. And was taken to the emergency room. The contact stated that about three years ago, the vehicle was taken to the danville toyota dealer, located at: 125 piedmont pl, danville, va 24541, where an unknown air bag was repaired. The contact recently received a notification of the federal safety agency campaign number: 19v741000 (air bags). The vehicle was not taken to a dealer. The vehicle was destroyed. The contact mentioned that she emailed a letter to the manufacturer of the accident and was make aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 170,000. The VIN was not available.

Filed Mar 12, 2018 · Suspension · 149,254 miles · TX

The upper ball joint failed 16 days after the annual inspection. My son drove over a speed bump in an apartment complex and the driver-side front wheel folded under the car. I contacted toyota and told them they should recall vehicles with this part because of the catastrophic nature of the failure. They dismissed it and claimed "...we do not show any recalls or other support programs applicable to the vehicle." just a few hours before this part failed, my son had been helping friends move. He had been driving down the freeway with three passengers in his truck and the bed of the truck full of furniture. People could have died. I googled ball joint failures on toyota vehicles and found the following link: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/01/toyota_ball_joints.html. This LED me to your web site. We were never informed of this recall by toyota and have literally been driving a ticking time bomb. The cost of the repair was $2,113.71 - not including the body damage that occurred from dragging the truck onto the tow truck platform.

Filed Dec 5, 2010 · Acceleration, Electrical · 23,550 miles · VA

My 2006 toyota tundra pickup truck has developed maximum acceleration on seven (7) occasions when I made hard accelerations in order to pass other vehicles while also engaging the resume mode of the cruise control. On the first two (2) occasions I applied the brakes heavily with no results and my vehicle continued to accelerate and I was forced to knock the truck out of gear and the engine continued to run a max rpms and I keep pumping the gas pedal until the engine finally slowed. The last time a similar event occurred I had a open highway after passing a slower vehicle so I cut the ignition off and my vehicle slowed down, I turned the ignition back on and my truck went to max acceleration again. The third time I cut the ignition off I heard a thump in the floor board close the gas pedal and the vehicle slowed and operated normally when I turned the ignition back on. I was traveling on a interstate the first two times this problem happened and just avoided hitting other vehicles. On the last occasion I had time to try a different solution. In each event the breaks were not effective at all. On 12/2/10 my toyota dealers service dept. Checked my truck after I made the above complaint and found no problems. In the past I had raised the issue with the dealers service dept and regional toyota rep. And was told by both that the 06 tundra did not have acceleration problems. *tr updated 01/17/12 updated ivoq 03/30/12

Filed Dec 28, 2006 · Body, Transmission · 10,000 miles · FL

This filing is in reference to my 2006 toyota tundra sr5 v8 4.7 ltr 10,000 miles. For the past few weeks of driving the above referenced vehicle I started to notice a knocking metal sound under the center console when accelerating and braking... I took no immediate action as I found it to be a very light sound. After a few more days of driving the knock became more noticeable I was more alarmed, when I got home I got under my truck with a flashlight and started to take a look around, after careful inspection I found that 3 of 4 12mm hex bolts on the automatic transmission mount/ crossmember were missing further more the case was that the rear transmission mount located near the driveshaft were loose enough that could be moved with minimal strength with my hand I was able to recover 1 bolt that fell into the crossmember along with a plastic retainer. I quickly tightened the loose bolts and realigned the mount took the truck out for a quick test drive and the sound stopped totally, the next morning I contacted my local toyota dealer and purchased 2 new hex bolts that came out to $ 3.40. After this u can say that all is now well, I believe this should be looked into as there maybe other similar units out there with the same issue, this could cause major damage to the vehicle and also possible inflict an accident.