2008 TOYOTA SIENNA — Complaint #1166861
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NHTSA Complaint about TIRES:TEMPORARY/EMERGENCY SPARE TIRE filed March 18, 2015
NHTSA complaint #1166861 (ODI reference 10695168) concerns a 2008 TOYOTA SIENNA and was filed on March 18, 2015. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 1, 2014. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania 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
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 TOYOTA SIENNA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS INCLUDED AND PARTIALLY REMEDIED UNDER NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V273000 (TIRES) HOWEVER, THE REMAINING PART TO DO THE RECALL REPAIR WAS UNAVAILABLE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE MANUFACTURER EXCEEDED A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME FOR THE RECALL REPAIR. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE ISSUE. THE CONTACT HAD NOT EXPERIENCED A FAILURE. ..UPDATED 06-08-15 *BF THE CONSUMER STATED THERE WAS EXCESSIVE CORROSION OF THE SPARE TIRE CARRIER CABLE. SPARE TIRE AND CABLE WERE REMOVED FROM THE VEHICLE. THE SPARE TIRE WAS PLACED IN THE OPEN CARGO AREA NEAR THE REAR OF THE VEHICLE CAUSING BOTH A SAFETY ISSUE AND INCONVENIENCE IN THE USE OF THE CARGO AREA AND REAR SEATS. UPDATED 11/23/15 *JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1166861 |
| ODI Number | 10695168 |
| Date Filed | March 18, 2015 |
| Failure Date | August 1, 2014 |
| VIN | 5TDZK22C48S |
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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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