2005 Toyota Sienna
Complaints about this year name side door far more often than the other years of this generation — 9% of them, about 3× the usual rate of 3.4%.
Generation 1 of the Toyota Sienna, which began in 2004 and ran to 2010. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 1,130 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 162 |
| Involving a crash | 39 |
| Involving a fire | 8 |
| Recalls | 12 |
| EPA combined | 18.5 mpg |
What owners wrote
THE DRIVERS SIDE DOOR. WHEN OPEN AND CLOSING THE DOOR, THERE IS A VERY LOUD CLICKING. I WAS TOLD THAT THERE IS A CRACK IN THE DOOR NEAR THE TOP HING THAT IS CONNECTED TO THE DOOR.
WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS STATIONARY, THE SLIDING SIDE DOOR CLOSED ON MY SON'S FINGERS, AND THEY GOT JAMMED IN THE DOOR. THE SENSOR ON THE SLIDING DOOR DID NOT WORK, WHEN IT SHOULD HAVE NOT CLOSED WHEN IT HIT MY SON'S FINGERS.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V657000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 14V743000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V396000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V273000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 11V539000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
- 13V429000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 10V036000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 08V244000 STRUCTURE
Showing 8 of 12. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Sienna was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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