general problems of the 2005 Toyota Highlander

Nine problems related to visibility have been reported for the 2005 Toyota Highlander. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2005 Toyota Highlander based on all problems reported for the 2005 Highlander.

1 Visibility problem

Failure Date: 11/18/2011

I have a 2005 Toyota Highlander and the sun visor on the driver side keeps falling out of its place and obstracting views . I took it to the dealer and they want more than $400. 00 to fix it. The visor falling down is dangerous and distracting. In my hable opinion Toyota has to recall this defective product.

2 Visibility problem

Failure Date: 02/27/2011

02/28/11, I own a 2005 Toyota Highlander and the sun visor (with lighted mirror) on the driver's side will not stay up. When I drive it causes a visibility issue. This definitely creates a dangerous driving condition on the road because part of the visibility is blocked. I cannot believe that my car is barely 6 years and I am already having issues. I have never had these kinds of problems with other vehicles.

3 Visibility problem

Failure Date: 11/01/2010

Driver's side sun visor keeps coming down creating a safety hazard while driving in heavy traffic.

4 Visibility problem

Failure Date: 01/07/2010

The driver's side sunvisor does not stay up in my 2005 Toyota Highlander. It flips down frequently blocking driver's view while driving and creates dangerous situations. I went online and discovered many many same complaints on message boards - only on driver's side. This needs to be looked into.

5 Visibility problem

Failure Date: 10/24/2009

Driver side visor is blocking the view of driver. The visor of my 2005 Toyota Highlander is malfunction which is result of flipping down all the time and blocking the view of driver, special during the night time or raining. This faulty is causing us of near accident situations.

6 Visibility problem

Failure Date: 05/13/2009

The contact owns a 2005 Toyota Highlander. The contact stated that the rear windows had been falling off track since may 2009. The rear driver side window and rear passenger side window had been replaced three times. The dealer stated that the cause of the failure was within the mechanism that lowered and raised the windows. The vehicle had not been repaired. The VIN was unavailable. The failure mileage was approximately 50,000 and the current mileage was approximately 71,000.

7 Visibility problem

Failure Date: 02/01/2009

I have a Toyota Highlander 2005 . The driv err s side sun visor will not stay up. It is a safety hazard we hole driving. Toyota, though this is a problem for many highland err own err 3rd will not fix or replace it.

8 Visibility problem

Failure Date: 01/15/2009

The driver's side sun visor on our 2005 Highlander is failing to hold position for the second time. The dealer replaced the visor after the first failure but has not replaced the second failing visor. The visor falls to the full down position and blocks a significant share of the driver's field of vision.

9 Visibility problem

Failure Date: 01/16/2008

The window control drops the window into the door and you cannot bring the window back up. This first occurred on January 2008, to my rear right window on my 2005 Toyota Highlander. I went to the dealership and they said it would cost $ 600. 00. That was ridiculously overpriced, so I found a way to lift the window, and then I disconnected the power window controls to that window. Without fail, the same thing happened to the rear left window of our car in January 2009. I have been all over the internet and found that it is a common occurrence with Highlanders and camrys, but there is no recall from Toyota for this common problem.



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