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Other speed control problem on the 2010 Toyota Tundra

4 crashes 2 injuries 6 of the 18 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.

Reports of this failure 18
With an odometer reading 17
Reports per 1,000 built 0.2 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 82%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 6
Typical repair $250–$2,000
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 3rd

When other speed control problem gets reported

Owners of the 2010 Toyota Tundra report other speed control problem at a median of 5,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 1,000 miles and a quarter after 15,000 miles, from 17 reports that carried an odometer reading.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 78,000 miles. It is the 3rd most-reported problem on this model year.

The mileage distribution

The reported range runs from 300 miles at the tenth percentile to 45,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 46,076 miles across the middle 80% of reports.

Reports bunched into a band this tight usually mean the component has a life of its own: it goes at roughly the same mileage regardless of who owns it.

82% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 17 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
260 miles 1,000 miles 4,100 miles 15,000 miles 46,336 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

Of these reports, 4 a crash and 2 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.

Putting it right typically runs $250–$2,000 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.

This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 17 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2010, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2004 at 110,000 miles.

By volume the 2008 carries the most reports, with 58; the 2010 has 18. 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.

What owners wrote

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.

2010 toyota tundra acceleration when trying to brake. The tundra could not stop and hit a 2000 buick which had struck a parked car and catapulted across the lane in front of tundra (buick and tundra going in opposite directions). *tr

3,342 miles NHTSA complaint 770245 filed 2010-03-04

Tl* the contact has a 2010 toyota tundra. The contact stated that the vehicle idles high when sitting at a stoplight. The contact stated that happens every now and then and not consistently. The contact stated that this problem happen 12 times on this vehicle. The failure mileage was 400o and the current mileage was 12000. The VIN was unavailable.

4,000 miles NHTSA complaint 770773 filed 2010-03-05

I have 2010 toyota tundra that has had a sudden acceleration. I was driving down the highway with the cruise set at around 73mph. I had to hit the brake, when I hit the cruise to reinstate the cruise the truck seamed like it went full trouble. My foot was never on the gas and the truck accelerated to over 90 before I canceled the curse control. This has happened only once. *tr

1,000 miles NHTSA complaint 770998 filed 2010-03-06

Also reported on the 2010 Toyota Tundra

Other suspension problem

23 reports median 88k

Other body or interior problem

19 reports median 23k

Other electrical problem

11 reports median 47k

Other brake problem

11 reports median 31k

Other powertrain problem

10 reports median 12k

Other wheel or tire problem

10 reports median 7k

How far this goes

Complaints are voluntary, so 18 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 other speed control problem happen on the 2010 Toyota Tundra?

Across 17 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 5,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 1,000 miles and a quarter after 15,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other speed control problem on the 2010 Toyota Tundra?

18 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 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