2006 Toyota Tacoma Wheels Problems

“The vehicle frame and included tow hitch and misc areas of the undercarriage are extremely rusted to the point of cracking and flaking metal. Also of a less serious concern, the alloy rims are heavily corroded, both conditions were noticed within two years of ownership. I am the original and sole vehicle owner. I will be mailing pictures along with a hard copy of this form to the address below. Updated 02/01/12 updated 04/18/12”

“Spare tire cable snapped on the morning of 7/12/12.snapping of the cable resulted in the rear of the vehicle becoming airborne and shifting to the side while in mid air. Luckily time was on my side. I was working nights and had this incident unfolded while working my normal day shift, I am positive there would have been contact between my vehicle with another vehicle, or another vehicle with tire and rim on route 287 north in new jersey as the roads are packed like sardines in a can yet moving at a brisk pace. I did not know what is was at first but immediately pulled off into the shoulder. …”

“While rotating tires, I have had three different wheel lugs break, one approximately 10000 miles previously and two on the same wheel on the date indicated above. The lug nuts where not cross threaded. These lugs where broken while torquing the nuts per the manufacturer specification. The torque wrench was not professionally calibrated, but was compared to a recently calibrated torque wrench, both wrenches coincided. Granted the lugs have had a small amount of oil for lubrication. However, I had a gentleman whom was a metallurgist his working career and did failure analysis for a oil company. …”

“While rotating the wheels on my 2006 Tacoma pick up truck the lug stud snapped. I was using a torque wrench and the stud snapped at less than 85 ft-lbs of torque”

“Wheels corroding slightly noticed when purchased new and progressively worsened over time. Now out of warranty says manufacturer and thousands of complaints of same online blogs. Affected only 2005 - 2008 certain vehicles.”