2005 Toyota Sequoia
Complaints about this year name vsc far more often than the model's other years — 38% of them, about 94× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 352 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 12 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 11 |
| EPA combined | 15 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- vsc — 37.5% of this year's complaints, against 11% across the model's other years (3.4×).
- lights — 31.3% of this year's complaints, against 8.8% across the model's other years (3.5×).
- abs — 22.2% of this year's complaints, against 5.1% across the model's other years (4.3×). Owners wrote it as: abs, ecu, control ecu, abs lights.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Also unusual this year
- vsc trac — 22% of complaints, 55× usual
- abs — 14% of complaints, 35× usual
- lights — 31% of complaints, 4× usual
What owners wrote
BRAKE, VSC TRAC, TRAC OFF, AND ABS LIGHTS ALL COME ON INTERMITTENTLY WHILE DRIVING AND STAY ON UNTIL THE CAR IS TURNED OFF AND RESTARTED. SEEMS TO BE A VERY COMMON PROBLEM ACCORDING TO THE FORUMS.
WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 70 MPH, AN ABNORMAL NOISE EMITTED FROM THE FRONT OF THE VEHICLE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE FAILED TO ACCELERATE AND STARTED TO JERK WHEN USING THE CRUISE CONTROL FUNCTION. THE CONTACT MENTIONED THAT THE ABS, VSC TRACT, AND…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V741000 AIR BAGS
- 18V883000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 22E002000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 14V743000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V065000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V286000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V285000 AIR BAGS
- 16V396000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 11. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Sequoia 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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