2008 Toyota Tundra at 48,000 miles
You did not give a mileage, so this uses 48,000 — the median reported failure mileage for this model year, which is a rough stand-in for “a typical example of this car”. Put your real reading in the box below for an answer about your car.
At 48,000 miles on this car
At 48,000 miles on a 2008 Toyota Tundra, 25 of the failure modes other owners have reported already have their median report at or below your reading, and 5 more fall inside the window where they are usually reported. The heaviest of the ones already due is other speed control problem.
Already past the median 25
Half of all reports of these failures came in at or below where your car is now.
- Other speed control problem 28k
- Other body or interior problem 37k
- Other suspension problem 354
- Cruise control failure 12k
- Wiring harness or short circuit 21k
- Other wheel or tire problem 23k
- Tail light, brake light or signal failure 21k
- Other steering problem 14k
- Differential or transfer case failure 3k
- Parking brake failure 9k
- Blower motor or climate control failure 5k
- Liftgate, tailgate or trunk failure 38k
13 more.
You are in the window 5
Your reading falls inside the middle half of reports for these.
Typically later 28
Reported further down the road than where you are.
- Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 48k
- Loss of braking 50k
- Steering column or shaft failure 54k
- Other lighting problem 55k
- Other visibility problem 57k
- Wiper or washer failure 62k
- Engine knock or bearing noise 69k
- Fuel gauge or level sensor failure 75k
- Paint peeling or clear coat failure 76k
- Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure 76k
- Seat, track or recliner failure 77k
- ABS module or sensor failure 79k
16 more.
Timing unknown 2
Reported, but too few owners gave an odometer reading to place them.
- Excessive oil consumption 1×
- Door latch or handle failure 1×
Why the list is generic until you type a number
Every figure below is a comparison against your odometer, so with no reading given the page has to pick one: 48,000 miles, roughly what a 2008 car covers at 12,000 miles a year. A reading 30,000 miles either side of that moves failures between the columns, which is the difference between a useful list and a generic one.
Already inside the reported range
25 failure modes on the 2008 Toyota Tundra have a median reported mileage at or below 48,000: other speed control problem (median 27,500 miles, 58 reports), other body or interior problem (median 37,500 miles, 43 reports), other suspension problem (median 400 miles, 23 reports), cruise control failure (median 10,000 miles, 15 reports), wiring harness or short circuit (median 20,000 miles, 11 reports) and other wheel or tire problem (median 25,000 miles, 11 reports).
These are the ones worth mentioning to a mechanic by name at the next service. Being past a median is not being overdue — it means the reports cluster below where you are now, so if the failure was going to be typical, it would already have happened.
The window you are in now
5 further modes are reported in a band that includes 48,000 miles: other fuel system problem (34k to 85,000 miles), other brake problem (22k to 95,000 miles), other powertrain problem (18k to 87,500 miles), other electrical problem (41k to 95,000 miles) and rust or structural corrosion (31k to 110,000 miles). These are the ones to watch on this car over the next few thousand miles.
A window here is the 25th to 75th percentile of reported mileages, so it holds the middle half of the reports and excludes the tails on both sides.
Still ahead of you
28 further modes sit above your reading, the nearest being steering rack, gear or tie rod failure at a median of 50,000 miles. On a car you intend to keep, these are the ones that decide whether it is worth keeping.
What this list is not
It is a reading of what owners of other 2008 Toyota Tundras reported, and at what odometer reading they reported it. It is not a maintenance schedule, not a diagnosis, and not a prediction about this car: two identical cars with different service histories are not the same car.
Complaints are filed voluntarily, mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers, and a failure mode with few reports has a wide window even when the median looks precise. Modes with fewer than 8 dated reports are shown without percentiles for that reason.
Where 48,000 miles falls on the curve
The three columns above sort the failure modes one by one. This is the same evidence in aggregate: every dated report on this model year, stacked up in the order the odometer readings arrived. The dashed line marked you is where your car sits. How much of the line is to the left of that mark is how much of this model year's reported trouble is, on the evidence, already behind you.
About 44% of the dated reports on this model year had already been filed by 48,000 miles. That is the share of the problems that show up in this record, not of the problems this car will have. A further 5 reports came in above the top of the scale, which is why the line stops short of the top.
- Line share of reports filed by that mileage
- Dashed the mileages called out above
A steep early climb means a car whose reports cluster young, which is the pattern of a defect rather than of wear. A line that only gets going past six figures is the opposite. Neither shape says anything about the specific car in your driveway, and a curve built from a few dozen readings can be moved by one owner with a talkative afternoon.
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Questions this page answers
What should I expect at 48,000 miles on a 2008 Toyota Tundra?
25 of the failure modes owners have reported on the 2008 Toyota Tundra have a median report at or below 48,000 miles, and 5 more fall inside the mileage window where they are usually reported. That is a watch list drawn from other owners, not a prediction about this car.
How to use the three columns. The left column is the list to hand a mechanic before you buy, and to check the service history for if you already own the car. The middle column is what to budget for this year. The right column is not a reprieve — it is a reminder that a used car has a bill schedule, and this is roughly where it falls. All of it is drawn from 460 owner complaints about this exact model year, not from a maintenance manual. How the percentiles are computed.
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed