2000 TOYOTA SIENNA — Complaint #498377
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DRUM:SHOES/LININGS filed September 27, 2004
NHTSA complaint #498377 (ODI reference 10093170) concerns a 2000 TOYOTA SIENNA and was filed on September 27, 2004. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 15, 2000. The vehicle had 1 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Oklahoma based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:drum:shoes/linings, 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, air:drum:shoes/linings 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 2000 TOYOTA SIENNA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I PURCHASED A TOYOTA SIENNA NEW IN 4/2000. WITHIN A FEW MONTHS THE BRAKES BEGAN TO SQUEAK EVERY TIME I BRAKED. THE LOCAL DEALERSHIP HAS TOLD ME COUNTLESS SIENNA'S FROM 1998-2003 HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS. TOYOTA TRIED A FIX THAT WORKED 8 MONTHS. IT IS A SHAME THAT YOU PAY $30,000 FOR A VEHICLE AND THE CO. WILL NOT STAND BEHIND IT. *AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 498377 |
| ODI Number | 10093170 |
| Date Filed | September 27, 2004 |
| Failure Date | July 15, 2000 |
| VIN | 4T3ZF13CXYU |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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