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2004 TOYOTA SIENNA — Complaint #646791

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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:BODY:TAILGATE:HINGE AND ATTACHMENTS filed November 19, 2007

NHTSA complaint #646791 (ODI reference 10209384) concerns a 2004 TOYOTA SIENNA and was filed on November 19, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 5, 2007. The vehicle had 36,840 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Connecticut based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:body:tailgate:hinge and attachments, 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 structure:body:tailgate:hinge and attachments 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 2004 TOYOTA SIENNA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2004 TOYOTA SIENNA
Component
STRUCTURE:BODY:TAILGATE:HINGE AND ATTACHMENTS
State
Connecticut
Mileage
36,840 mi

Complaint Description

OUT OF THE BLUE OUR TAILGATE NO LONGER STAYS UP. THE TRUNK STRUTS NEED REPLACING ACCORDING TO THE DEALER. OUR FIVE YEAR OLD TOLD US OF THIS PROBLEM WHEN HE WAS TRYING TO GET SOMETHING OUT OF THE BACK. LUCKILY HE WAS NOT INJURED. WE ARE GOING TO GET THE PROBLEM FIXED. I'VE READ ONLINE THAT AN INVESTIGATION THROUGH YOU HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE DEC. 2006. I'M CONCERNED THAT WE HAD NEVER BEEN TOLD THIS IS A POTENTIAL PROBLEM IN A RELATIVELY NEW CAR. I'VE READ OF OTHER CLOSE CALLS FOR INJURIES AND AM SURPRISED THAT THERE HAVE BEEN NONE CONSIDERING THE WEIGHT OF THE TAILGATE AND THE FORCE WITH WHICH IT CLOSES. *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 646791
ODI Number 10209384
Date Filed November 19, 2007
Failure Date November 5, 2007
VIN 5TDZA23C44S

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.