2008 TOYOTA SIENNA — Complaint #1154748
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NHTSA Complaint about TIRES:TEMPORARY/EMERGENCY SPARE TIRE filed February 5, 2015
NHTSA complaint #1154748 (ODI reference 10681544) concerns a 2008 TOYOTA SIENNA and was filed on February 5, 2015. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 24, 2014. The report was geocoded to Indiana based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as tires:temporary/emergency spare tire, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same TOYOTA SIENNA cohort independently describe similar tires:temporary/emergency spare tire failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2008 TOYOTA SIENNA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
RECEIVED LETTER,7/24/14, ADVISING THAT MY 2008 TOYOTA SIENNA HAD A POTENTIAL PROBLEM WITH THE CABLE, HOLDING THE SPARE TIRE UNDERNEATH THE VEHICLE, WHICH NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. ON 8/26/14, MY SPARE TIRE WAS RELOCATED TO THE LUGGAGE COMPARTMENT OF MY VAN WHICH RENDERED THE AREA UNUSABLE FOR FOLDING THE REAR SEATS DOWN TO USE THAT AREA FOR TRANSPORTING LARGER ITEMS, ETC! I CHECKED SEVERAL TIMES WITH MY LOCAL DEALER REGARDING A PERMANENT SOLUTION/REPAIR AND WAS TOLD THEY HAD NOT YET RECEIVED NOTICE OF AND/OR REPAIR PARTS FOR THE IDENTIFIED PROBLEM.ON 11/20/14, I CONTACTED THE TOYOTA CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE CENTER AND SPOKE, AT LENGTH, WITH A REPRESENTATIVE WHO STATED THAT THEY HAD BEEN RECEIVING NUMEROUS CALLS REGARDING THIS ISSUE AND THAT SHE WAS AWARE OF SEVERAL MEETINGS REGARDING THE ISSUE BUT NO RESOLUTION AS YET AND NO IDEA WHEN A RESOLUTION WILL OCCUR. IT WOULD SEEM THAT BY NOW, IF THE SITUATION IS BEING ACTIVELY WORKED ON, AN ACCEPTABLE REPAIR WOULD BE AVAILABLE! I AM FRUSTRATED AND
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1154748 |
| ODI Number | 10681544 |
| Date Filed | February 5, 2015 |
| Failure Date | July 24, 2014 |
| VIN | 5TDZK23C78S |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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