Toyota Recalling 51,000 2011 Tundra Pickups For Driveshaft Failures

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc, today announced it will conduct a voluntary safety recall on approximately 51,000, 2011 model year Tundra trucks to inspect the rear drive shaft.  The rear drive shaft in an estimated 0.05 percent of the vehicles may include a component (slip yoke) that could break due to improper casting during the foundry process.  

Toyota is aware of one drive shaft slip yoke failure in a customer-owned vehicle. There are no reports of accidents or injuries associated with this condition.  No other Lexus or Toyota vehicles are involved in this recall.

Owners of the involved vehicles will receive a letter advising them of this recall by first class mail starting in May 2011.  Toyota will also post this information on its website.

Toyota dealers will be instructed to perform an inspection to identify a specific "production lot" number located on the rear drive shaft. Based upon the inspection results, in a limited number of cases, the rear drive shaft may need to be replaced.

The inspection is estimated to take ten minutes.  If the rear drive shaft needs to be replaced, the repair will take more time depending on the dealer workload.  The inspection and / or replacement will be performed at no cost to the vehicle owner.

Detailed information and answers to questions are available to customers at www.toyota.com/recall and the Toyota Customer Experience Center at 1-800-331-4331.



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toolatetorace - 4/26/2011 10:44:55 PM

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Yes that could be an exciting ride if the slip yoke breaks. That is the front portion of the driveshaft that either goes into the tranfer case if four wheel drive or tranmission if two wheel drive . Imangine pole vaulting if you will . Not as dramatic if the back end of drive shaft or pinion yoke breaks . Driveshaft just falls down at that point and you roll to a stop

truckman - 4/27/2011 4:09:29 AM

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I bet that the faulty casting was done in China, there quality is world class for garbage. Time to pay for quality if you want to still call it that, and that goes to anyone out sourcing to China, maybe it was Mexico or India? Any one know?

toolatetorace - 4/28/2011 10:16:34 AM

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I don't think toyota gets along too well with China . Toyota does have plants in Mexico and Canada though