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really awful
Crashes / Fires:
1 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
1 / 0
Average Mileage:
47,926 miles

About These NHTSA Complaints:

This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.

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2002 Toyota Tacoma wheels / hubs problems

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2002 Toyota Tacoma Owner Comments

problem #8

Dec 112014

Tacoma

  • miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

The contact owns a 2002 Toyota Tacoma. The contact received notification of NHTSA campaign number: 12V542000 (tires). However, the part needed to do the repair was unavailable. The contact stated that the manufacturer exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was not made aware of the issue. The contact had not experienced a failure. The VIN was not available.

- Colombus, OH, USA

problem #7

Aug 012013

Tacoma 4WD 2-cyl

  • Automatic transmission
  • 164,000 miles
The contact owns a 2002 Toyota Tacoma. The contact stated that the spare tire became detached from the vehicle while traveling approximately 5 mph. The manufacturer was contacted prior to the failure and informed the contact that the remedy for NHTSA campaign number 12V542000 (tires) had not been finalized. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 164,000. Updated 09/05/13

- Middleton, NH, USA

problem #6

Aug 012010

Tacoma

  • 135,000 miles
TL. the contact owns a kuhmo mohave A/T tires on a 2002 Toyota Tacoma. The contact stated the side wall of the rear driver side tire collapsed while driving at 25 mph. The contact change the tire and took the tire to a dealer. The dealer examine to the tire and stated the tire failed with no other defects. The dealer replaced the tire under the tire warranty. The contact stated he does not feels safe with the current tires on the vehicle. The failure mileage was 4,000.

- Temperance, MI, USA

problem #5

Aug 152007

Tacoma

  • miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

This is in response to the new Toyota recall on the sienna mini-vans spare tire. I own a 2002 Toyota Tacoma, in which the frame was recently replaced due to rust perforation in certain states. I am the original owner and back in 8/2007 I had a flat tire and had to change it. The spare tire resides under the vehicle and is secured by a cable. When I went to access the spare, I noticed the whole cable and the surrounding pieces were severely rusted and was very difficult to separate the tire from the cable. After hearing about the recall on the sienna for the spare tire getting rusty, and possibly falling loose while driving, I realized that my Tacoma, and possibly other vehicles that use this method, and are exposed to extreme climate conditions, could trigger a similar event.

- Marlboro, MA, USA

problem #4

Aug 142004

Tacoma

  • Automatic transmission
  • 40,200 miles
The left rear tire (dunlop grandtrek P265) of 2002 Toyota Tacoma blew out on ca 215 freeway (with speed of 60-70 mph). I lost control of the vehicle, it spun and collided with another vehicle which resulted to minor physical injury to the other vehicle's driver. Original tires came from the dealership, carson Toyota (California). Contacted Toyota and the dealership--they gave us the run-around. The dealership was very unresponsive stating that they are not at fault, did not know that the tire would blow up on the vehicle that during the sale--nevertheless, to cut cost on a $2ok value truck, put substandard, defective tires, least expensive in the market. I will end up putting up the costs for replacing all tires with more reliable tires (Michelin). I hope that there would be better law/legislation protecting consumers and no one would experience the same incident that occured to me.

- Carson, CA, USA

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problem #3

Mar 302004

Tacoma 6-cyl

  • Automatic transmission
  • 36,005 miles
Two Firestone tires on my truck blew out on the freeway within 10 days of eachother, while my wife was driving. This put her in extreme danger and a very unsafe situation.

- Pell City, AL, USA

problem #2

May 202003

(reported on)

Tacoma 4WD

  • 8,200 miles
Defective rims and tires.

- Santa Fe, NM, USA

problem #1

Jun 042003

(reported on)

Tacoma

  • miles
Several repairs to wheels and tires. Re:steve & kathy mittman the consumer had been to three Toyota dealers in performing repairs to the wheels and tires. Beaver Toyota performed two complete alignments and replaced three wheels that were out of specifications. American Toyota has performed a complete alignment, mounted and balanced all the tires on the wheels, prior to replacement by beaver Toyota. Karl malone had replaced two tires that were found to have excessive run out, as well as mount and balanced all four tires on the new wheels. The manufacturer agreed that this was a defect but declined to replace all five tires and the rims due to sources who stated the tires were within specification.

- Santa Fe, NM, USA

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