5.5

fairly significant
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
16,600 miles

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problem #1

Dec 052006

Tacoma 6-cyl

  • Automatic transmission
  • 16,600 miles
While using the cruise control at freeway speed, driving up an incline. The transmission downshifted violently two gears from 5th to 3rd. Actual speed acceleration happened enough to nearly cause a rear end collision. I had to manually cancel cruise control to regain safe control....

- Doraville , GA, USA

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