NHTSA Campaign Id 05V328000; Date: Jul. 20, 2005
As a result, the vehicle occupants will not be made aware of whether or not the air bag is activated and ready to protect the occupant as appropriate.
2005 Toyota Tundra
Component: Air Bags:frontal
Manufactured by: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
Affected Units:: 2,527
Certain pickup trucks equipped with automatic transmissions and optional fabric front captain's chairs fail to comply with the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 208, 'occupant crash protection. ' these vehicles were built with an incorrect front passenger occupant classification system indicator light lens which will not display the status of the front passenger air bag.
Dealers will replace the front passenger occupant classification system indicator lens. The recall began August 5, 2005. Owners may contact Toyota at 1-800-331-4331.
Toyota recall no. 50k. Customers may also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236; (tty: 1-800-424-9153); or go to http://www.safercar.gov.
Date Owners notified by Manufacturer: Aug 5, 2005
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