2004 Toyota Sienna: power window failure

Filed Aug 12, 2016 · Body · CA

Driver door arm/hinge has pushed through and tore the metal in the door frame from what appears to be a bad weld according to online resources of people reporting similar problems. We bought the vehicle used and had no information that may have been sent to previous owners prior to march 2012. Door was making a popping noise when you would open or shut it. One day I couldn't roll down my window all of the way when the door was closed. When the door was open the window would roll down normally. We looked inside of the door to see what was causing it and noticed the arm was inside of the door with torn metal attached to it. Looks like the arm was defected and eventually pushed through the door frame ripping the metal. Date of march 2016 is when the window stopped rolling down all of the way. The noises were happening for years.

Filed May 23, 2014 · Body, Electrical · 90,100 miles · NY

The driver side door stop started making a noise when we open and close the door. The window stopped opening completely. Toyota has extended the warranty to 6 years or 100k miles for this defect. They won't repair my vehicle because it is beyond the extension. The cost is over $2,000. Now the door stop has broken off completely and door swings wide. This creates a dangerous situation every time we use the car. My understanding is that the welds were defected and toyota didn't want to spend 2k per vehicle to repair all the defected cars. Car doors are a major component of any vehicle and shouldn't fail.

Filed Mar 9, 2013 · Body · 84,000 miles · NY

Driver side door won't open all the way and the driver side window won't go all the way down. Toyota extended the warranty for a known defected weld however this warranty is for a 5 year term or 100k mile for an very important part of the car. Because the window won't go down to pay tolls I must open the door. The may cause a dangerous situation. Toyota short changed any owner of this vehicle by not recalling the vehicle for this defect.

Filed Jul 19, 2011 · Body · 90,300 miles · OH

The incident occurred while I was driving from ohio to florida, on spring break. I was the sole adult in the vehicle with my two daughters, who were riding in the middle seats. We had traveled all day and had stopped in lake city, fl to fill up with gas. When we got back on the highway (I-75), my daughter told me she was hot. It was just after 8 pm and the sun had set. Not wanting to turn on the air conditioner, I told her I would open the rear vent windows to move air through the car. I pushed the button to open the rear vent windows, and the window on the passenger side flew off the van. I heard the noise, and my daughter yelled that the window was gone. I looked in my rear view mirror to see the window sailing through the air in the draft of the van. Then it crashed and shattered all over the highway. We were very lucky that no one was traveling directly behind us. I slowed down and waited for any cars traveling behind me to pass and to see if anyone was going to pull over. No one stopped, and there was no reason for me to go back for the shattered window. I would like to note that I was not traveling at an excessive speed. Thankfully my van was the only car involved and no one got hurt. One expectation that I have when I buy a car is that the windows wont fly off when I open them during normal operation, no matter how old the car is. My car has never been in an accident, and further more it had just been in the dealership for the 90k maintenance and body check.

Filed May 3, 2010 · Body · OH

2004 toyota sienna. The drain system plugged in my moonroof with debris after a heavy rain. Flooded the headliner and went into the dash and screwed up the electrical system. Windows stopped working, alarm was going off in the middle of the night. On the highway, the driverside sliding door started opening on it's own where my one year old child's sits at 65 MPH. It is a flawed design with no screen protection of any kind to keep debris out. It plugs off and fills the vehicle with water shorting out the electrical system.

Filed May 10, 2007 · Locks, Visibility · AR

A month or so prior to this incident, I took the 2004 toyota sienna to the local toyota dealer and asked them to check the door latch on the driver's door - it was making a popping sound. I was told it would not hurting anything ,and some time in the future bring it in and they will order the part and take the door panel off to replace the latch. Well, on tuesday, may 8, 2007 I opened the door and the latch broke in half, and the part connected to the door broken the metal around the latch, and it fell into the door. When I lowered the window several hours later the window fell of the track and down inside the door. - it would not raise back up, so I took it back to the toyota dealer, and after waiting for 3 hours ,I was told the clips were broken, and they would have to order a new window with clips attached. The window was put back in place, and I was told not to roll the window down or it would fall off the track again. - the service department at the toyota dealer was going to charge me $106 for putting the window back up. I was told this labor charge and the charge to replace the window/clips, or the door latch , actually the door would have to be replaced, would not be covered under my extended warranty. - I was not informed that it was not covered under my extended warranty until they were charging me for the labor of putting my window back on the clips. So, they did not charge me anything - after I argued with them about this. - the next day, I had someone else look at the clips, window and the track holding the window. - the clips are not broken, just unglued from the window - because the track bent when the broken door latch part fell into the door.

Filed Aug 12, 2005 · Acceleration, Electrical · 22,000 miles · CO

Radiator ruptured and the engine overheated; hose replaced in steering column recall; rust protective tape recall; dvd screen replaced and the entire dvd player replaced(screen still not easily visible in middle row); passenger seat belt replaced; middle passenger seat belt failing; gasoline smell inside of car with AC on recirculation; driver's window fell inside door in snow storm and was not considered a safety issue to get a loaner vehicle even though the vehicle could not be locked; tires completely bald and leaking under 30,000 miles, dvd player must be at a high db volume and when returned to radio/cd will almost deafen you; interior lights have to be manually over ridden or will drain battery; car hesitates 1-2 seconds when trying to quickly accelerate and then lurches forward alarmingly; cruise control is not functioning; waiting to have fuel mixture sensor replaced. I was not informed of first 2 recalls until I my engine overheated. I did get the rust recall and a sticker on my sliding door informing user of danger of having middle windows open while opening the middle door could catch a head or other extremity. Toyota dealer service manager says mine is the only 04 sienna experiencing any problems except for the recalls on the radiator; the steering hose; the rust tape; and the middle seat belt. Not so according to all I have read here. Most of the problems have occurred between 22,000 and 34,000 miles; the dvd screen always failed to lock into a good position for the middle row viewers.