1998 TOYOTA SIENNA — Complaint #1972178
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST:VACUUM filed March 3, 2024
NHTSA complaint #1972178 (ODI reference 11575190) concerns a 1998 TOYOTA SIENNA and was filed on March 3, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 16, 2017. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:power assist:vacuum, 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 service brakes, hydraulic:power assist:vacuum 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 1998 TOYOTA SIENNA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
steering component that breaks, causing a driver to lose control.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1972178 |
| ODI Number | 11575190 |
| Date Filed | March 3, 2024 |
| Failure Date | August 16, 2017 |
| VIN | 4T3ZF13C6WU |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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