Table 1 shows one common unknown or other related problems of the 2007 Toyota Tacoma.
| Problem Category | Number of Problems |
|---|---|
| Unknown Or Other problems |
I bought an undercover truck tonneau cover to cover the bed of my 2007 Toyota Tacoma truck. After three years of use the cover developed severe fatigue cracking around the mounting hinges. Fearing a catastrophic failure, with the cover possibly flying off into traffic, I removed the cover from the truck. The failure has not been corrected by undercover and the part remains in my possession. Their response was that they would not replace or repair the cover since it was out of warranty and that it should be removed if I felt it was a safety hazard. Pictures of the cracked hinges are available.
After pulling into a parking spot, prior to changing the gear from drive to park, the engine revved up violently on it's own. My foot was no longer on the accelerator. Luckily, I was able to apply hard and fast pressure to the brake pedal as soon as the engine roared, and put the truck in park before lurching into the brick wall in front of me. I turned the truck off, and restarted it. It started normally, and I had no more problems with it. This happened in the summer of 2009, and hasn't happened since. I marked it up as being some strange eletro-mechanical anomoly, but after receiving Toyota's ridiculous 'floor-mat' explanation and hearing how wide-spread this problem was, I wanted to go on record that the 2007 Toyota Tacoma suffers from the same unexplained safety hazard as the vehicles listed in the January 2010 Toyota recall. It would have been bad enough hitting that wall, but someone could have been walking in front of me. This is not a good thing.
My son and I were going to the courthouse. I do not know what component to blame the problem on, so I will just describe what happened. My son was a witness to the incident: I was trying to parallel park. My right foot was still pressing on the brake as I put the gear in r. When I did this, I heard an extremely loud whir from the rear wheels. I immediately put my truck in neutral. My truck was still not properly aligned in the parking spot: there was a car parked on the left that could hit me. I put the car in d. Then I again heard an extremely loud whir from the rear wheels, so I pressed down completely on the brake, but my truck still moved forward and crashed into the car parked in front of me. My truck kept pushing into that car parked in front of me, so I immediately put my truck into parking gear and this stopped my truck. I took my truck to the Toyota dealer and the dealer blamed the problem on the floormat. The dealer made the process of investigating the case and getting a satisfactory resolution too bureaucratic, so I just gave up and did not pursue the matter so I do not know what the case # is at the dealership. An example of the bureaucratic headache: I wanted to do a trade, but if I did that, I had to pay another $7,000, and I did not have that kind of money. There was another witness identified in the police report. According to the police report, this "witness #1 advised that he came to his vehicle and adjusted where he parked. He advised that as he was getting out, he observed vehicle #1's [my vehicle] tires began to spin. He jumped back into his vehicle and observed it [my vehicle] crash into the curb and vehicle #2. " the police report ends with: "there were leaves on the ground around where the crash occurred. ".
My 2007 Toyota Tacoma, I had experiencing the engine revving quite high when my foot is on the brakes. This happened intermittently over the past 3 years. My other symptom is sometimes I feel like there is no brakes . That is I hit the brakes and nothing happens. I had to pump the brakes a few times.
I was driving down hill along about 50 km/h. I noticed stop lights and cars spinning and sliding everywhere. I gently took my foot off the throttle to start engine braking and as usual nothing happens immediately. Worse, truck started to accelerate because of rpm hang problem on every manual transmission equipped model (my complaint to dealer was ignored twice). This is not exactly a place where you can push the brakes even with abs because it also is an off slope turn. Instead of slowing down gracefully, the rpm hang actually acts like a cruise control. Combined with the downhill and the rpm hang I am not decelerating at all! suddenly the ecu finally decides to close the throttle (fuel cut off). At this point truck tail of my truck slide to the right and to the left. Only my 20 year experience and good luck let me avoid a fatal accident. The non-linear throttle response is not safe. This is just dangerous how the ecu is programmed! maybe because only <10% of all trucks have manual transmissions Toyota doesn't want to hear about it. Toyota must issue ecu patch for manual transmission models v6 Tacoma, fj cruiser to eliminate: 1. Rpm hang when shifting 2. High rpm (1450) when rolling downhill in neutral or with clutch depressed 3. Make linear throttle response.