Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure on the 2010 Toyota Tundra
Only 7 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When fuel tank, filler or evap failure gets reported
There are 8 reports of fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure on the 2010 Toyota Tundra, 7 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 8th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 70,000 miles | — | — |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Putting it right typically runs $250–$1,800 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 12 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2017, at a median of 45,000 miles, and latest on the 2004 at 140,000 miles.
By volume the 2000 carries the most reports, with 56; the 2010 has 8. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Leaf springs have broken, each spring has a man leaf with two additional springs, both additional springs have broken under normal use of the vehicle, only one spring remains on each side. The vehicle is parked and undrivable, last week when I heard it, I though it was just a rock kicking up under the frame, but when I stopped to investigate I noticed my truck sitting low to the ground and the springs were broken. If one more spring on either side breaks, it could puncture the fuel tank and will put the vehicle frame on the axle. At highway speeds this would casue a major accident most likely involving death. I had my daughter in the truck at 35 MPH when this happened last week, thank god it didn't turn into a fatality. I request an investigation of the manufacturer defect in the springs, the broken halfs of the springs still remain intact and can be examined for default. The first incidences happened in the past, where I was unable to know how and what the circumstances were. The last incident did however happen last week and bare metal can be seen at the break in the uploaded photo. No weight was in the truck at the time.
I heard metal rattle as I rode over sewer covers / bumps on the road. The dealer inspected the vehicle and found that the driver's side leaf spring was completely rotted through and broken. I was the only driver of the truck & purchased it brand new. It was used as a passenger vehicle and it had never towed more than a pop-up camper & it had never been used to carry anything heavier than hockey bags and groceries. The truck had 66,000 miles on it when the spring broke. It was necessary to replace the leaf spring due to the fact that had I been hit the gas tank could have punctured & exploded. Toyota would not cover the cost because I was over 36,000 miles.
Also reported on the 2010 Toyota Tundra
Other suspension problem
Other body or interior problem
Other speed control problem
Other electrical problem
Other brake problem
Other powertrain problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 8 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
Complaints are voluntary, so 8 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does fuel tank, filler or evap failure happen on the 2010 Toyota Tundra?
Across 7 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 70,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is fuel tank, filler or evap failure on the 2010 Toyota Tundra?
8 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
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