Toyota Tacoma (2005–2015) Owners Manual: Reporting safety defects for U.S. owners
If you believe that your vehicle has a defect which could cause a crash or could cause injury or death, you should immediately inform the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in addition to notifying Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (Toll-free: 1-800-331-4331).
If NHTSA receives similar complaints, it may open an investigation, and if it finds that a safety defect exists in a group of vehicles, it may order a recall and remedy campaign. However, NHTSA cannot become involved in individual problems between you, your dealer, or Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
To contact NHTSA, you may call the Vehicle Safety Hotline toll-free at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY: 1-800-424-9153); go to http://www.safercar.
gov; or write to: Administrator, NHTSA, 1200 New Jersey Ave, S.E., Washington, DC 20590. You can also obtain other information about motor vehicle safety from http://www.safercar.gov.
For owners
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Seat belt instructions for Canadian owners (in French)
The following is a French explanation of seat belt instructions extracted
from the seat belt section in this manual.
See the seat belt section for more detailed seat belt instructions in English.
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Other materials:
If your vehicle has to be stopped in an emergency
Only in an emergency, such as if it becomes impossible to stop the vehicle
in the normal way, stop the vehicle using the following procedure:
Steadily step on the brake pedal
with both feet and firmly depress it.
Do not pump the brake pedal repeatedly as this will increase the effort required ...
Theft Deterrent System Unexpectedly Sets Itself
DESCRIPTION
A situation in which the theft deterrent system unexpectedly sets itself can
be caused when the main body ECU (multiplex network body ECU) cannot detect whether
a door is open or closed.
If the theft deterrent system unexpectedly sets itself, there may be a malfunction
in a court ...
Disassembly
DISASSEMBLY
PROCEDURE
1. REMOVE STARTER YOKE ASSEMBLY
(a) Remove the nut and disconnect the lead wire from terminal C.
(b) Remove the 2 bolts.
(c) Pull out the starter yoke assembly and commutator end frame together with
the starter armatur ...
