New recall for 22-23 Tacoma 22TA09

I logged into Toyota's techinfo site today, and downloaded the dealer service department version of the recall notice. It includes how to inspect the welds and how to repair it, should they need to be repaired.

Happy reading.

 

Thanks, my Tacoma was a very late 2022 build (first week of September) and is clean; my assumption is the issue was either limited to a certain period of time, before mine was built, or one of the factories and not the other; mine was built in Guanajuato.

 

The 75k potentially affected Tacomas were built between "late October 2021 - late May 2022" according to the recall.

 

Read the technical inspection and repair, thanks blu92. Pretty invasive. I hope mine can pass the weld check, but it seems like it could be a matter of how ham fisted the tech is in wedging the punch in there.

 

lol at dealer techs hitting your welds with a chisel.

"If you drive the chisel too hard, you
could accidentally punch a hole with the
chisel though the back panel."

 

Surprised they didn't just have some holes drilled and bolts or rivets used. Seems a lot easier than grinding and welding inside a finished vehicle. What could go wrong????

 

it needs to be strong enough to hold during a collision

 

You can bolt or rivet as strong as a resistance pinch weld.

 

I'm guessing the awnser is no, but can't Toyota just rate the Tacoma unacceptable to use child saftey seats?

 

I'd like to see the video linked on page 9, but it appears you have to be logged in to watch or download it. Or they screwed up the click on link address.

 

Yeah, need to be logged in to download it.

The video is 86.3mb large (about 4 minutes long). Too big to attach here, and I don’t have a YouTube account to post it to.

It's nothing special, the first two minutes are basically reinforcing the need for the correct chisel, size of hammer and no using air hammers. The second half was somebody doing the actual hammer-work on a vehicle that passes the inspection (the only real value in the video IMO, compared to the document).

 

You won’t get the recall now because you voided the agreement to not redistribute the information.

 

I gave mine a pretty solid tug in different directions. Didn't go anywhere, but I'm not letting a tech chisel on my truck to fix a problem that doesn't exist for me anyway. One of my kids is in a booster, so that doesn't matter, and i've always found the top latch to be pointless anyway and rarely used it in prior vehicles. If you have the lap anchors nice and tight, that seat isn't going anywhere.

 

This is what i can see with the wall still in place.

 

Made my appointment back in September and they finally got me in yesterday to do the inspection, mine was fine. Takes them roughly 90 minutes.

The dealer said so far only 1 truck they’ve had come in for this didn’t pass. They outsource the job to a local body shop for those who need the weld repaired.

 

just left the dealer today. I had the same experience. It’s nice to know the calls and letters will stop, so it was worth it for 90 mins of my time.

 

Based on TSB for the fix.

assume for a second you have a faulty weld.
Some tech is going to go back there, “tap” on the weld with essentially a chisel with the exact amount of force prescribed in the TSB.( his arm is calibrated)

he doesn’t notice any physical weld separation, reports all good and sends you on your way.

meanwhile his experiment just caused the faulty weld to become even worse (imagine an internal crack propagation) and now it might actually be a safety issue.