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YA BABY!!! Keep the "Kids" in line!!! Regarding the tow hitch receiver; I checked my 2004 DC hitch which I don't use either, but Toyota has addressed that problem: my cap has two slots either side to the end of cap to drain any moisture collected inside. Hey love this message board!! Keep up the good work passing on info. Mark/Cape Cod |
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Where is the oil filter located in the 2006 Tundra? Once I find it, is there anyhtingelse I need to know about changing it other than the obvious?
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Hi there, My husband and I own a 2002 Toyota Tundra and have noticed lately that there is a "thumping" sound that sounds like it is coming from the back of the truck. He mostly notices it while accelerating after the truck has been sitting for a while. Anyone ever experience this? Thanks in Advance
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Replying to: musicangel99 (Jun 17, 2006 2:58 pm) That thump is your transmissoin shifting back into first gear. I would just check and see if it is time for a transmission flush..but becareful, sometimes that can do more damage than good..so do your research and ask alot of questions. |
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I've been on this forum for as long as i can remember, and have been trying to resolve my 01' sequoia's tick tick sound, this is definitely a defect toyota needs to resolve, but im guessing it would be ridiculously expensive for them. Well, I purchased some headers off ebay from SSautochrome for about $250..came with both headers, gaskets, bolts...had a mechanic i know put them in for me...which fit perfectly btw, and GOODBYE TICK TICK SOUND!!!! my sequoia finally sounds normal again  when looking for an installer, dont let them lie to you..it took my mechanic about 6 hours to put them in(not 14 like some shops said), and that was with serveral breaks. So yes, only way is to replace your exhaust manifolds. All n all..i love me Sequoia 
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Replying to: paliguy81 (Jun 28, 2006 10:50 am)  WASHINGTON — Toyota Motor Corp. will spend millions to deactivate front-seat passenger air bag cut-off switches in nearly 160,000 Tundra pickups to avoid having to install a costlier child safety seat anchoring system. The Japanese automaker is taking the action after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week on June 28 rejected Toyota's petition to waive a federal safety regulation that requires most vehicles built after September 2002 and equipped with the cut-off switch to also have a child seat anchor system known as LATCH — for lower anchorages and tethers for children. The regulation was meant to ensure that child seats stay in place in a crash, especially in vehicles with smaller rear-seating, such as pickups. At the time the regulation was adopted, 600 children under the age of 5 were killed every year in auto crashes and another 70,000 were injured. Children are at high risk of death or injury from airbags that deploy. That's why child seats aren't allowed in front seats that don't have an airbag cut-off switch, which activates the airbag only if it senses an adult is in the passenger seat. Deactivating the switch means the air bag will always deploy, making it unsafe to ever put a child in the front seat. Toyota will voluntarily recall the pickups, beginning in mid-September, after completing engineering of the parts to deactivate the air bag cut-off switch, spokesman Bill Kwong said Friday. "We always recommend that child seats are used in the rear as children are safest there," Kwong said. Owners will get notice of the recall in September, he said. Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety said Toyota shouldn't be allowed to simply deactivate the switches. Toyota's failure to provide the latches "is not merely an incidental statistical artifact but a clear and present danger to the children who ride in child restraints in the front passenger seats of those vehicles," said Henry Jasny, general counsel for the Washington-based group. Kwong said there may have been some engineering issues that make it impractical to add the latches rather than deactivate the airbag cut-off switch. He said the exact cost of the recall isn't known — only that the fix is expected to require two hours of labor. At more than $100 for labor, it could cost more than $16 million if all vehicles are serviced, he said. It isn't known what the parts will cost since they are still being designed, he said. In its ruling, NHTSA took no position on whether Toyota could comply by simply deactivating the switches. Kwong said beginning in the 2006 model year, Toyota deactivated its front passenger air bag cut-off switch to satisfy the regulations. In June 2005, Toyota acknowledged that 156,555 Toyota Tundras from the 2003-05 model years didn't comply with the child seat anchor safety regulation. The automaker asked NHTSA to waive the regulation and spent more than a year trying to convince the agency it wasn't required to install child-seat anchoring systems. Toyota lost the debate last week, when NHTSA rejected the company's final appeal. Toyota noted that it hadn't received any customer complaints and that there were no injuries reported as a result of the lack of the anchoring system in the front seats of the trucks. Tundras have compliant child safety latches in rear seats. "However, the fact does not render the absence of the anchorages in the front seats inconsequential," NHTSA chief Nicole Nason said in a June 28 notice published June 28. Small children's safety "depends on proper installation of the child-restraint systems in which they ride." NHTSA also noted that parents with vehicles built before 2002 who mistakenly believed their vehicles complied with the regulation have "used seatbelt latch plates, drilled holes through the nylon webbing of the seatbelt" in an effort to use the front seat. Frightening that they could get away with that just to save some coin.  No wonder they make more money than the other automakers (who complied in 2003!) 
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| How do I add ATF to my 2006 base model tundra; 4.0 2WD AUTO TRANS | |
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| I've a 2000 4WD Limited and have had all the recall brake issues done (I've got hard copies of TSB's if you need) and just turned 49K on OE tires. I started to notice "mild" steering wheel shimmy 58-65 MPH on various types of Interstates, asphalt, cement, etc. Put on new Geolanders, had front end alligned, still shimmied. Had alignment checked, tires "road force balanced", one tire replaced, and shimmy was reduced but still there. Could this be a ball joint problem? Or what? Anyone with this experience? | |
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I just lost the "chirp" which follows locking/unlocking doors with the remote. It's probably wired into the headlamp circuit since the lights still flash, but the sound is gone. Anyone know where the Piezo is located? I can't find it and dealer manuals don't seem to show it.
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Replying to: 2000limited (Aug 01, 2006 2:57 pm)
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