2011 Toyota Tundra
This year drew an ordinary 134 complaints for a Toyota Tundra — the model's median is 119. What they were about is the unusual part: 14.9% of them mention code, against 5.3% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Toyota Tundra, which began in 2007 and ran to 2021. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 134 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 119 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Recalls | 11 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 16 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- code — 14.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.3% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: code, valve, p2442, p2441.
- rack — 14.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.6% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: rack, power steering, pinion, rack pinion.
- spring — 9.7% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the other years of this generation (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: spring, horn, ran, clock.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
RACK AND PINION SEALS FAILED CAUSING THE POWER STEERING FLUID TO LEAK INSIDE THE BOOTS ON THE END OF THE RACK AND PINION ASSEMBLY THEREFORE NOT LEAKING ONTO THE GROUND SO THERE WAS NO INDICATION OF A PROBLEM UNTIL THE POWER STEERING FAILS TO WORK PROPERLY WHIL…
POWER STEERING FLUID DRAINED OUT OF THE RESERVOIR AND INTO THE RACK AND PINION BOOT. THERE WERE NO EVIDENCE OF FLUID LEAKS UNTIL THE RACK AND PINION BOOT EXPLODED ON THE DRIVER SIDE. THE VEHICLE WAS IN PARK AND WHEN I TURNED THE STEERING WHEEL COMPLETELY TO TH…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V743000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V689000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 11V588000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 13V014000 AIR BAGS
- 11V148000 TIRES
- 11V254000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 11V185000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 13V123000 EQUIPMENT
Showing 8 of 11. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Tundra was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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