Toyota Dyna
Registered from 2002 to 2014.
About this model
The Toyota Dyna is a light to medium-duty cab over truck for commercial use. In the Japanese market, the Dyna is sold alongside its twin called the Toyoace. The Toyoace was a renaming of the Toyopet SKB Truck as a result of a 1956 public competition with 200,000 entries. "Dyna" is short for dynamic.
From the Wikipedia article Toyota Dyna, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
What fails its inspection
Great Britain's MOT record for the 2009 3.0 diesel. 35 of 141 tests failed, 25%.
Better than 50% of 2009 cars. The typical one fails 25%, across 961 models with enough tests behind them to say.
| Where | Share of failures | Failed tests |
|---|---|---|
| Lights and electrics | 63% | 22 |
| Brakes | 43% | 15 |
| Suspension | 43% | 15 |
| Tyres and wheels | 26% | 9 |
| Exhaust and emissions | 23% | 8 |
| Visibility | 20% | 7 |
The defects inspectors cite
- A suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn
- Brakes imbalance across an axle such that the braking effort from any wheel is less than 70% of the maximum effort recorded from the other wheel on the same axle.
- Engine MIL illuminated indicating a malfunction
- The aim of a headlamp is not within limits laid down in the requirements
- Parking brake efficiency below minimum requirement
- Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements
Where it stands out against its peers
- Lights and electrics: failed more often than 98% of 2009 cars — 63% of its 35 failed tests, where an ordinary 2009 car has 37%.
Same model year only, at least 30 peer cars, zeros included. Every car has a worst part; this shows which, and how far from ordinary it is. A high share means more to check, not a verdict.
NHTSA's investigations are American; no European regulator publishes an equivalent record, so this section has nothing to draw on for a European car. There is no European equivalent of the service-bulletin register either.
Before you buy one
Built from what this car fails on, not from general knowledge of the model.
- Brakes — 43% of its failures
- Parking brake efficiency below minimum requirement
- Suspension — 43% of its failures
- A suspension pin, bush or joint excessively worn
- Tyres and wheels — 26% of its failures
- Brakes imbalance across an axle such that the braking effort from any wheel is less than 70% of the maximum effort recorded from the other wheel on the same axle.
- Tyre tread depth not in accordance with the requirements
- Exhaust and emissions — 23% of its failures
- Lights and electrics — 63% of its failures
- A rear registration plate lamp or light source missing or inoperative in the case of a single lamp or all lamps
- A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning
- Visibility — 20% of its failures