Issue ID | 829346 |
Internal NHTSA # | 10367659 |
Manufacurer | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION |
Brand | TOYOTA |
Model | TACOMA |
Model Year | 2007 |
File date | 19/12/08 |
Component | UNKNOWN OR OTHER |
Product type code | VEHICLE |
Description of the problem | 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." |
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Source of the issue | PORTABLE SAFETY COMPLAINT FORM (PDF) |
City and State | CHARLOTTE, NC |
VIN pattern | 3TMLU42N67MXXXXXX |
Was vehicle invloved in a crash? | Y |
Was vehicle involved in a fire? | N |
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No. of injured persons | 0 |
No. of fatalities | 0 |
Date of purchase | 16/10/24 |
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Vehicle speed | 3 |
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