The passenger side power sliding door has jammed and cannot be opened. We had to let our son out of the car at school on the driver side and he was almost hit by another car. Toyota has known about this issue and has issued an extended warranty, but they should be covering all vehicles when it comes to child related issues. Offering a limited warranty extension does not cure their failure to produce a safe vehicle for the consumer. We have already replaced the passenger side and now the passenger side has failed.
2005 Toyota Sienna body complaints
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Struts will not properly hold up the liftgate causing head injury by banging on the side of forehead of the person lifting the liftgate.
Rear sliding door actuator will not open or close using remote or pillar door switch. This is a tremendous safety issue for children who cannot open the door physically.
Drivers side door weld broken. Toyota familiar with problem but won't fix. Toyota extended the warranty to 5 years and 100,000 miles but mine is older than 5 years. Door welds should not break in life of car. Toyota dealership body shop says they have fixed hundreds of these.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 toyota sienna. The contact stated that while the vehicle was parked, a crack along the dashboard was discovered. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 90,000 and the current mileage was 97,000.
The toyota sienna sliding doors no longer slide. After numerous complaints, toyota issued an enhanced warranty. Unfortunately, the parts covered will not fix the doors. The additional quote is $1,000. If you research online, this is a common problem. I believe toyota is trying to avoid a recall on doors and parts they know to be malfunctioning.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 toyota sienna. The contact stated that the dashboard began to crack. The contact was concerned that the failure would affect air bag deployment in the event of a crash. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer for inspection or repairs. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure who provided no assistance. The failure and current mileage was 65,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 toyota sienna. The contact stated that while the vehicle was parked, she tried to open the rear sliding door and the door could not be opened. The vehicle was taken to a private mechanic but was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified. The failure mileage was 122,000. The consumer stated the sliding door was inoperative. It would close on her or her kids at any given time. Updated 12/18/12
The dashboard of the toyota sienna 2005 is cracking. The crack started from the AC vent on both sides so my opinion it is a bad design or component that should be recalled. The car is always inside the garage and the crack appeared around 72k miles.
The power sliding door of the toyota sienna is faulty and according to the dealer the failed part is the actuator. The car has 73k miles and it is unacceptable that this particular component failed. You can't open the door using the fob or the remote switches so during emergency this will pose a problem when exiting the vehicle. I see a lot of similar occurrence in the internet so this could be a defect in the design.
I tried to close the rear door after putting my groceries in the rear well. The door closed part-way then went back up. I did it again manually and using my remote 'clicker'. Same thing happened. In order to close the door I had to push it manually to close the door. We took it back to the dealer who said the struts needed to be replaced (approximately $500). Later I realized there had been a recall on faulty struts. These are the replacements. I notice on the internet where are others are now having problems with the replacements that were installed.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 toyota sienna xle. The contact stated that a large crack extended the entire length of the dashboard. The manufacturer was notified and informed the contact that there were no recalls pertaining to the defect and the service warranty was expired. The vehicle had not been repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 91,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 toyota sienna. The contact stated that when opening the front driver side door, he would hear a loud creaking noise. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for inspection where they stated that there was a welding issue. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 80,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 toyota sienna. The contact stated that the driver's side door weld was fractured. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who diagnosed that the weld needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure who did not offer any assistance since the vehicle was no longer under warranty. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 98,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 toyota sienna. The contact stated that the driver side door had become inoperable. The retaining rod that kept the door from opening was fractured. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who stated but the vehicle was not repaired. The VIN was unknown. The manufacturer was not notified. The failure mileage was 60,000.
Sliding door is not open and close when using electrical button. We got the extend warranty but when we bring to toyota dealer they told us have to pay $295.00 to check it . If a defect is not under warranty. I fill it is not fair. Door is not open because the latch was not release by pushing button. Is it safe when children are in side? If we remove the latch everything is working fine. Please help american consumer to make toyota responsible for any lack of assembly. They have to pay for the time of inconvenient also. Please investigate this issue. Thank you
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 toyota sienna. The contact stated that the sliding doors would open sporadically without any warning. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who diagnosed that the door weld needed to be replaced. The dealer did not offer any assistance since the vehicle was no longer under warranty. The failure mileage was 8,000 and the current mileage was 48,499.
Our car started having problems in 2008 with the passenger side rear sliding door. It became gradually more difficult to operate and eventually would not open at all. When I took the car to the dealer in 2009 (it had 99,000 miles), the toyota dealer said that it was a 'known problem with siennas and recommended cutting the door cable. He said it would cost over $1000 to fix. I paid to have the problem diagnosed. The sliding door failure is a safety issue for us, and anyone with children. The door is now operated manually, which it was not designed to do. It requires an unreasonable amount of force to open/close. The safety mechanisms, which were designed into the door to prevent injury, ' these sensors do not operate now. My pre-teen children have to get out of the car on the street side, since the door is too difficult to operate. I feel that this door failed because of a design defect which toyota has known about for several years. Toyota has apparently intentionally delayed the release of the 'warranty enhancement in order to purposefully exclude as many owners as possible from this program in order to avoid paying for repairs. My car, which had dealer-documented rear door failure in 2009 at 99k miles, is now excluded from the repair program.
We have had complete sliding door failure from the latch release motor for both the passenger and driver side doors. The malfunction is electrical and was in no way caused by mis-treatment or an accident. The passenger side door failed first and several weeks later the driver side sliding door failed in the same manner. This failure has resulted in passengers not being able to open the sliding doors from the inside of the car. The doors will only open from the outside.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 toyota sienna. The contact stated that while entering the vehicle, the front driver's door made clicking noises. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The dealer stated that the driver's door hinge needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was contacted. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 49,000 and the current mileage was 50,000.
Toyota recently issued an extended warranty notice for the sienna van rear powered sliding door. However, they conveniently excluded key components, from this warranty, that allows the door to operate fully and correctly, such as the actuator. The power sliding door on my sienna does not work due to a faulty actuator but toyota will not cover it because it is not on their secretive list of covered components. Even though they admit oem component failure of the powered sliding door through their extent warranty notice. So now I am simply looking for toyota to cover a component that they should be held responsible for. The dealer wants ~$900 dollars for the fix!
Door popping when opening and closing due to broken door weld. Secondly when the passenger side seat belt becomes fully extended it binds and gets caught and the shoulder belt will not retract back into the door.
Dashboard cracks over the entire length of the dashboard. Cracks in area above glove compartment that houses the airbag. Cracks in dashboard in front of steering wheel.
Our right side-power door stopped working and we then received a warranty enhancement notice "certain 2004 to 2007 model year sienna rear sliding door latch assemblies and power sliding door cable assemblies" extending the warranty to 120,000 miles. We took it to the toyota dealer and they stated that the door latch assembly in our vehicle is not covered because the part numbers are different. It seems if they are having an issue with these components they all should be covered. The part number needed is 69631-08021 which includes the parts in the recall. It seems if there is a problem that required a warranty extension, and those parts are some how defective then the entire unit should also be covered.
Tl* the contact owns 2005 toyota sienna. The contact stated that the driver and passenger side power sliding doors were inoperable. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who inspected the doors and stated they needed to replace the motor and cable assembly on the driver side. On the passenger side, the actuator needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was notified who stated offered no assistance. The failure mileage was 109,847 and the current mileage was 128,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 toyota sienna. The contact stated that the front driver's door was rusted and the spot welds were damaged. The contact also stated that the door was about to fall off from its hinges. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer for inspection. The dealer stated that the vehicle was out of warranty and offered no assistance. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified. The failure mileage was 76,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 toyota sienna. The contact stated that the driver's door was cracked and had become inoperable. The dealer was notified who stated that before they performed any diagnosis on the vehicle, that the contact had to report the failure to the manufacturer. The manufacturer was contacted who filed a case on the contact's behalf (case number: 1207200426). The manufacturer denied any further assistance due to the warranty being expired. The failure mileage was 110,000 and current mileage was 150,000.
The passenger sliding door on the vehicle does not work. The toyota dealership said it's a motor defect not covered under toyota's warranty enhancment for the door. This has become a safety issue because my son is not strong enough to open the door manually and in order for him to exit the vehicle, he either needs to exit on the driver's side into oncoming traffic, or climb to the front seat to use the front door. On more than one occasion, we were almost hit by a car while dropping him off at school. There is no parking lot there and neither parents nor children are supposed to exit the vehicle at all on the drivers side. My son couldn't get the door open so I had to get out of the car and was almost hit by another car not expecting me to be opening the door. It is more than a matter of convenience, it is essential that the door can be opened and closed using the power feature. The manual sliding door is way to heavy for a 5 yr old to use safely.
Door popping when opening and closing due to broken door welds.
Cpsc#i1260525a. 2005 toyota sienna. Consumer stated about two years ago, she started have problems with the drivers door on her mini van, which was making a loud clicking/grinding sound every time it was opened or closed. She stated she got it fix and it's giving her problems again. *ln the consumer stated she can only open the door halfway to get in and out. Also, the windows were not operating properly.
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