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During brake work dealership advised me leaf spring assemblies on both left & right side had broken centre spring. Rh sping broken in 2 places causing centre portion to turn and damage shock absorber. Dealer replaced both leaf assemblies and shocks no charge. New leafs replaced with 4 spring assembly. Vehicle operated under normal driving conditions only.
Rear leaf spring broke which caused a banging noise from under the truck. The leaf spring is sticking out, rubbing the tire. Dealer needs to replace both rear shock absorbers and leaf springs.
The center leaf on both springs has failed. Toyota knows of the problem, but told me too many miles on the vehicle. Although they did replace headgasket for a recall at 135K. I went to an auto/truck spring shop and when I went inside, the gentleman there said "broken rear springs?" before I said anything. They keep them in stock, replacing so many. I"ve been lucky, the part that broke isn't a mounting point. So the suspension had continued to hold up the tuck. It's going to be expensive for me to repair, $800+ between the springs, shocks(leaf slid over and ate the shock) and the exhaust pipe(slid over and ate that.) I've resigned that I've got to do it, but maybe Toyota has to do some better research on their components. Thanks.
The springs slide into the left rear tire, rubbed it, busted the tire, and lost control of the truck causing it to roll over 3 times. The truck was totaled.( dot number: Tire size: 265-75R15 )
- Pennington Gap, VA, USA
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Left rear leaf spring broke at 45,000 miles. Toyota replaced it. Did not replace both springs.the other leaf spring failed at 85,000 and Toyota would not provide replacement. Failed under normal driving conditions, neither driving off-road or with heavy load.
The rear leaf spring broke, a 4" section is missing from the middle. The still attatched part had swug round and was rubbing against the inside wall of the tire. The potential for an accident is plain to see, especially since all of the problems with leaf springs/suspension that this model has had. The heaviest item ever carried in this truck weighed 480# and has never been used "off road" and never hit a pothole or the likes.
While driving at 20 mph the rear leaf springs broke off which caused consumer to lose control, and hit a cliff. This is the third time the springs broke, and the second time the consumer has had an accident due to the springs breaking off.
Rear leaf spring completely failed, did not support suspension; bottomed out. Vehicle sagged/noisy leaf spring. Shock absorber went out, vehicle bounced U/down, rear wheels did not stay in contact with road, allowing truck to wander, could cause crash, dealer replaced spring.
Owner states that the rear springs make noise and that when vehicle starts to move from a stand still to about 30 to 40 mph ripples are heard and vehicle becomes hard to control.
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- Calgary Alberta Canada T2p2g5, MT, USA