Toyota withdraws 51 thousand Tundra pickups because of marriage to the gimbal shaft

About it reports Associated Press, citing a statement from U.S. sales offices of Japanese companies. According to them, moving fork drive shaft from 0,5% of cars sold might be defective. Toyota already has information about a case of failure of this part. All accidents or injuries as a result of this fault message was received.

Under service campaign cars get only Toyota Tundra 2011 release. Since early May car owners will send notification of the need to visit the nearest service center to diagnose the machine. All information will also be available on the official website of the company. Diagnosis and replacement of defective parts will be free.

Recall that last week Toyota announced a recall of more than 300,000 SUVs RAV4 and Highlander models due to faulty airbags. In total, over the past year and a half concern Toyota was forced to withdraw more than 14 million sold worldwide car from bad rugs, disengaging the gas pedal and the errors on the braking system.