2006 Toyota Sienna
Complaints about this year name light far more often than the other years of this generation — 32% of them, about 4× the usual rate of 8.5%.
Generation 1 of the Toyota Sienna, which began in 2004 and ran to 2010. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 1,016 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 162 |
| Involving a crash | 37 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 11 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- airbag — 27.5% of this year's complaints, against 6.2% across the other years of this generation (4.4×). Owners wrote it as: airbag, harness, airbag light, wiring.
- bag — 15.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the other years of this generation (5.5×). Owners wrote it as: bag, air bag, bag light, bag warning.
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
- airbag — 16% of complaints, 7× usual
- air bag — 15% of complaints, 6× usual
- harness — 9% of complaints, 9× usual
What owners wrote
AIR BAG LIGHT IS ON AND FLASHING. DIAGNOSED BY TOYOTA DEALER ON 02/09/11 AS CODE B0111, NEEDS R/SEAT AIRBAG ASSEMBLY & FLOOR WIRE HARNESS. ESTIMATE $2160.00. I CONTACTED TOYOTA CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE LINE, THE CONTACTED DEALER AND AGREED TO PAY $700 TOWARDS REPAI…
THE AIRBAG INDICATOR LIGHT WAS ON IN MY VEHICLE. THE DEALER INDICATED THAT THE LEFT AIRBAG AND HARNESS WERE DEFECTIVE AND THAT I HAVE TO PAY FOR THE [VIN] SINCE THE VEHICLE IS NO LONGER UNDER WARRANTY.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V657000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 14V743000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V273000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 16V396000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 09V223000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 10V036000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 08V244000 STRUCTURE
- 09V234000 EQUIPMENT 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 Sienna 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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