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Model years to avoid

Toyota Sienna

What it says about you

Opinion

You wanted a minivan that would never need discussing again and you found it. All-wheel drive, hybrid, and it will still be here in twelve years.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

21 model years on record, 5,126 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2011 (takata recall), 2008 (oil), 2006 (light), 2005 (side door). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • takata 2011, 2012 peak 30.3% of that year's complaints
  • oil 2007, 2008, 2015 peak 20.1% of that year's complaints
  • fuel 2018, 2019 peak 24.4% of that year's complaints
  • transmission 2017, 2019 peak 22.4% of that year's complaints
  • noise 2012, 2013, 2017 peak 17.5% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2025 1 recall 0 complaints
  3. 2024 1 recall 0 complaints
  4. 2023 1 recall 0 complaints
  5. 2022 3 recalls 0 complaints
  6. 2020 2 recalls 36 complaints
  7. 2019 7 recalls 45 complaints
  8. 2018 7 recalls 69 complaints
  9. 2017 10 recalls 152 complaints
  10. 2016 5 recalls 75 complaints
  11. 2015 6 recalls 229 complaints
  12. 2014 6 recalls 162 complaints
  13. 2013 6 recalls 183 complaints
  14. 2012 9 recalls 247 complaints
  15. 2011 takata recall 611 complaints
  16. 2010 8 recalls 172 complaints
  17. 2009 10 recalls 207 complaints
  18. 2008 oil 428 complaints
  19. 2007 10 recalls 364 complaints
  20. 2006 light 1,016 complaints
  21. 2005 side door 1,130 complaints

What does a Toyota Sienna say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.