general problems of the 1996 Toyota T100

Two problems related to suspension have been reported for the 1996 Toyota T100. The most recently reported issues are listed below.

1 Suspension problem

Failure Date: 05/21/2015

The trucks under carraige is nothing but rust scary rusty , also the body especialy fender wells rust growing, rear bumber rusted off the truck nearly completely gone. Frame so rusty getting scared to tow a trailer. Great running has been a good one. Just don't understand the bad rust problem, I know the the smaller Toyota trucks were recalled and replaced or bought out, whos to say the frames on these Toyota T100 will not break also causing wreck and possible injury.

2 Suspension problem

At 40 mph, vehicle was forced to swerve off road. Vehicle struck a culvert and flipped over onto its roof. Both driver and passenger were wearing seatbelts. Passenger said she was thrown all over the vehicle in the rollover and ended up in the rear seat. Driver doesn't remember much of accident but ended up outside the vehicle. Driver has steel plate and screws in right knee and passenger also had knee injury only requiring stitches.




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