Toyota Sienna Exterior Lighting Problems
- 64
- Owner complaint records in our dataset
- 15
- Years with records
- 2004–2019
- Stored years
Records are owner complaints, not a measured failure rate.
Owner complaint recordsComplaint records reflect reports in our dataset and do not measure how frequently the problem occurs across all vehicles.
Among these 64 stored complaint records:
- 2 indicate a crash
- 0 indicate injury
- 2 indicate fire
Complaints by year
What appears in the records
- passenger side · 18 records
- headlight assembly · 10 records
- side headlight · 10 records
- beam headlight · 6 records
- design flaw · 5 records
- failure mileage · 5 records
Mileage in stored records
| Band | Records |
|---|---|
| 1–30k mi | 19 |
| 30–60k mi | 14 |
| 60–100k mi | 9 |
| 100–150k mi | 7 |
| 150–400k mi | 3 |
Complaint evidence
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Engine · Exterior Lighting · Vehicle Speed Control
Pulled out into oncoming traffic and vehicle hesitated and would not accelerate. Dash lights came on and car stalled. Attempted to crank van and it restarted but would barely move with the accelerator pressed fully. Had to call a tow truck to have it delivered to the dealer. I called toyota road side assistance number and 2.5 later no one showed up. Called again and demanded a different tow company respond and 30…
ODI 11299633
Exterior Lighting
July 2019 , speedometer gauge is not visible in daylight with the lights off. Toyota service altered the light configuration so that now the auto light feature and the lights on warning does not work. Dealer advised i must use parking lights switch selection in order to see speedometer guage in daylight. The car does not work as advertised and is a "driving while distracted" significant safety risk as no-one cannot…
ODI 11242466
Exterior Lighting
Instrument panel gauges hard or impossible to read during daytime hours unless full sun is out. Can not see the speedometer nor other indications. Instrument panel lighting come on when headlights or parking lights on, but at day time when they are off, the terribly designed dark cluster is impossible to see. Due to the dark design of the cluster, i recommend that the vehicle cluster illumination to be on at all…
ODI 11112804
Electrical System · Exterior Lighting · Seats
Electrical fire inside parked van occurred overnight and burned driver and passenger front seats, dash, and all air vents and all plastic component located near all vents. Van was parked on street in front of my house.
Fire reported
ODI 11109535
Exterior Lighting
The headlight bulb compartment allows water to leak into it on the passenger side causing the bulb to blow. This has happened twice, the repair cost was $500. We drove the car for one week and the bulb blew again because water leaked into the compartment. This is a design flaw and is hazardous when you are driving at night or god forbid if it's raining and dark. We also were pulled over and given a warning from a…
ODI 11075113
Exterior Lighting · Interior Lighting
I rented a 2018 toyota sienna on a recent trip to hawaii. Unlike earlier sienna models (which had bolder, thicker labels for the indicators), the instrument panel was very faint and hard to read in daylight. In shade, it was almost invisible. I checked the manual to see if i could turn the brightness up, but it appears to have been designed this way. I'm concerned that not being able to see the instrument panel to…
ODI 11074559
Electrical System · Exterior Lighting
Abs, vsc, trac off, brake lights on continuously, plus tire pressure light blinking. This is not normal and also annoying. Toyota doesn't seem to know what the problem is, and is only willing to allow me to spend thousands of dollars to "try" to fix this. Toyota needs to take responsibility! Vehicle drives normally. Lights have been on for months. I was driving down the road, with a car load of children, late at…
ODI 11064947
Exterior Lighting · Steering · Wheels
Steering do not stay straight while i am driving this vehicle. Since i purchased, i went to toyota in the beginning they fix it but issue was not resolve and as of today same problem and i replaced new tires still alignment is the biggest problem. Lighting is not strong to see deer on the road.
ODI 11043673