At least Toyota issued a recall and offered to replace frames at no cost. I had a recall notice for a 2001 Toyota Tundra to being the truck to the dealer to inspect the rear cross-bracing where the spare tire resides and replace x-brace if rust is bad. The pile of old and pallets of new Tacoma frames in the back of the shop is a bit surprising. I live in a tropical area so the salt is in the air and vehicles still rust moderately bad here.
no, they just lost a 3.4 Billion Dollar lawsuit on their frames.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies...suit/ar-AAkfyfK
Also, I love how folks on here blame the supplier, Toyota provides the specs for the frame, coatings process etc.
They also certify the vendors process and perform internal audits at the vendors plant. Toyota would also have incoming material inspection in their assembly plants, anyone who worked in manufacturing would understand this. Obviously they have a huge pattern failure in that the frames are sub-standard and Toyota got burned yet again by rust. This one is on Toyota, another dent in their supposed quality!
You seem to have missed the fact that this thread exists because of the latest class-action suit. Furthermore, Toyota won a multi-million dollar suit against Dana Corp for their not producing the frames in a manner agreed to by both parties.
Then why did they use the frames if Toyota knew were sub-standard??? If that is the case then Toyota will knowingly use sub-standard parts and will only warranty if they get sued and lose lawsuits!
And I provided the link since people on here infer that Toyota is doing the recall voluntarily, no they fought it and lost a lawsuit.
