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Toyota Tacoma 2016–2018technical service bulletin

Bulletin T-SB-0273-17_Rev · NHTSA communication 10142877 · issued Jun 8, 2018

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Suspension
component
2016–2018
model years
3
vehicle entries

Official summary

TSB: REVISION NOTICE June 8, 2018 Rev2: ? Applicability has been updated to include 2018 model year Tacoma vehicles. ? The entire bulletin has been updated. October 13, 2017 Rev1: ? The Warranty Information and Repair Procedure sections have been updated. Any previous printed versions of this bulletin should be discarded. Some 2016 ? 2018 model year Tacoma vehicles may exhibit a squeak noise from the rear leaf spring when traveling over speed bumps or with movement from loading and unloading the suspension. Follow the Repair Procedure in this bulletin to address this condition.

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.