Toyota Sienna — reported problems

CarFaultIQ holds 24,024 evidence records for the Toyota Sienna (1998–2025), drawn from official sources and owner complaints.

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 21,636 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

  • Body & structure5,606 (25.9%)Official recall records for this system: 10, covering model years 1998–2016.
  • Air bags (restraint system)1,768 (8.2%)Official recall records for this system: 15, covering model years 2010–2021.
  • Doors, latches & locks1,584 (7.3%)
  • Tires & wheels1,570 (7.3%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2004–2018.
  • Electrical system1,420 (6.6%)Official recall records for this system: 7, covering model years 1998–2020.
  • Brakes1,182 (5.5%)Official recall records for this system: 12, covering model years 2011–2022.

Other / uncategorized: 1,230 classifications (5.7%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

  • Owner complaints (17,070 records, model years 1998–2020) are most frequently classified under: body & structure, air bags (restraint system) and doors, latches & locks.
  • Safety recalls (204 records, model years 1998–2020) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, air bags (restraint system) and body & structure.
  • Transport Canada recalls (138 records, model years 1998–2025) are most frequently classified under: fuel system, seat belts and brakes.
  • Manufacturer communications (6,568 records, model years 1998–2020) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and body & structure.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

  • 11,970reports included a mileage
  • 75,056average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

  1. 1998 392 records for 1998
  2. 1999 322 records for 1999
  3. 2000 481 records for 2000
  4. 2001 308 records for 2001
  5. 2002 293 records for 2002
  6. 2003 215 records for 2003
  7. 2004 2,346 records for 2004
  8. 2005 1,401 records for 2005
  9. 2006 1,276 records for 2006
  10. 2007 623 records for 2007
  11. 2008 689 records for 2008
  12. 2009 477 records for 2009
  13. 2010 459 records for 2010
  14. 2011 1,006 records for 2011
  15. 2012 633 records for 2012
  16. 2013 570 records for 2013
  17. 2014 532 records for 2014
  18. 2015 587 records for 2015
  19. 2016 375 records for 2016
  20. 2017 429 records for 2017
  21. 2018 383 records for 2018
  22. 2019 250 records for 2019
  23. 2020 195 records for 2020
  24. 2021 3 records for 2021
  25. 2022 3 records for 2022
  26. 2023 1 records for 2023
  27. 2024 2 records for 2024
  28. 2025 4 records for 2025

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

  • 838mention a crash
  • 154mention a fire
  • 1,320mention an injury
  • 20mention a fatality

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

  • Safety recalls NHTSA 204
  • Manufacturer communications NHTSA 6,568
  • Investigations NHTSA 44
  • Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 138
  • Owner complaints NHTSA 17,070

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

  • P0171 in 7 records · 2004–2020
  • P0420 in 6 records · 1999–2003
  • P0440 in 6 records · 2001–2003
  • P0441 in 6 records · 2001–2003
  • B0111 in 5 records · 2004–2008
  • B0116 in 5 records · 2004–2008
  • P0087 in 4 records · 2017–2020
  • P0446 in 3 records · 2001–2003
  • P0174 in 2 records · 2005–2006
  • P2195 in 2 records · 2005–2006
  • P2197 in 2 records · 2005–2006
  • P0630 in 1 record · 2005–2005

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.

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