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2008 Toyota Tundra

Complaints about this year name pedal far more often than the other years of this generation — 17% of them, about 3× the usual rate of 5.8%.

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.

What the complaints were about

• accelerator — 20.6% of this year's complaints, against 6.6% across the other years of this generation (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: accelerator, accelerator pedal, foot, vehicle speed.
• pedal — 16.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.8% across the other years of this generation (2.9×).
• acceleration — 8.6% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation (6.4×). Owners wrote it as: acceleration, suddenly accelerated, unintended, unintended acceleration.

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.

Also unusual this year

• accelerator — 13% of complaints, 4× usual
• accelerator pedal — 9% of complaints, 8× usual
• frame — 10% of complaints, 4× usual

What owners wrote

HE RECEIVED REPAIRS TO THE VEHICLE UNDER NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER 09V388000, VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL, ACCELERATOR PEDAL. AFTER THE REPAIRS, THE VEHICLE WOULD EXHIBIT OCCURRENCES OF ABNORMAL UNINTENDED ACCELERATION AT SPEEDS OF 35-65 MPH. THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL WO…

WHILE ACCELERATING FROM A STOP SIGN AT APPROXIMATELY 5 MPH AND DEPRESSING THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL, THE VEHICLE LUNGED FORWARD AND CRASHED INTO THE PASSENGERS SIDE OF AN ONCOMING VEHICLE. THE POLICE WERE CALLED AND A REPORT WAS FILED AT THE SCENE. NEITHER THE [VI…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 21V920000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
• 21E103000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
• 14V743000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
• 16V396000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
• 11V148000 TIRES
• 12V491000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
• 13V123000 EQUIPMENT
• 11V278000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.

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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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