general problems of the 2001 Toyota Sequoia

Took my Toyota in for repair at they deemed it not safe to drive.

No accident. Just frame issues. If you can. Can I please get a voucher for frame repair. I really like this SUV. Thank you!.

No incident. Frame is getting a little rusted. Can you please send me a voucher for a recall.

Vsc tracking lights and check engine.

Recently I took the vehicle in to investigate a clunking noise. I was informed by the shop that the frame had completely rusted through, causing the rear stabilizer arm to become detached. I also had a front stabilizer link fail twice in a year, presumably from the frame excessively flexing. Upon further investigation, I came to learn that Toyota is quite aware of this very issue, they’ve issued recalls where insufficient measures may have been taken to temporarily stop the rusting, and that many many other Sequoia owners have the same exact problems that I’m having, and Toyota refuses to take responsibility for this premature failure and provide some sort of relief. Given the frequency and number of complaints, I’m kind of shocked that NHTSA hasn’t banned these vehicles from the roadways. Seems like a serious accident waiting to happen. It’s not like the facts are in question in this case. There must be hundreds or thousands of examples. If you do a web search for “2001-2004 Toyota Sequoia rust corrosion on frame” you’ll find a bunch of examples, as well as accounts of Toyota’s numerous refusals to stand behind their mistakes. I still have the vehicle, and would gladly help you with any investigation. I did have part of the frame welded just so I could limp it back home to WI. I towed it on a trailer. It runs great, and is in very good condition, which is why this is all such a shame.

Toyota rust issue on my 2001 Toyota Sequoia r5. My vehicle was originally used to transport children to and from practices and games twice a week. This past summer, I started driving it daily. I took my vehicle in for service because I kept hearing a knocking and my engine light was on. After taking it to the mechanic, we discovered it was an O2 sensor causing the engine light on, but also noticed extreme rust on the entire frame. The mechanic determined the vehicle was unsafe and recommended the entire frame be replaced as that knocking would cause the front half of the vehicle to separate from the back half and cause a serious issue. After talking to Toyota body shop, service department and a mechanic, I learned of a campaign that Toyota had issued. Toyota issued the campaign due to severe rust of its Toyota tundra but failed to offer the same coverage for Toyota Sequoia issued for 2001. The campaign that was issued was for 2005-2008 Sequoia, however my Toyota was made in 2001. Currently, my vehicle which transports my family, including young children has to sit until I can find $15,000-$17,500 to have it fixed by a Toyota dealership. At this point, I can not afford this, especially for a vehicle I purchased used last year. My mechanic and Toyota has deemed this vehicle unsafe. I'm requesting to have Toyota replace and fix the entire frame or buy the vehicle back from me so that I can purchase another vehicle that's safe, reliable and specious for my family. I would hope to have this issue expedited so I can continue transporting my family safely.

My vehicle has significant frame rust throughout. In some areas, the rust has gone all the way through the frame and large chucks/flakes of rust are falling off. In addition, there is rust coming through the weld seams in many locations.

The frame is totally rusted and the campaign is past the deadline it has not broke yet but I'm afraid to drive it also.

The frame is rust and I have problem sometime in stering sost�n and the trction control the light is on sometime and I need turn off my SUV whait a minute and turn in for the light turn off.

The traction control pulls the vehicle to the right at any speed. I almost crashed today.

Failed inspection missouri rusted fame rear axle falling out . Very dangerous.

Came rusted apart and in safe to drive the frame was coated in 2013 at fannon Toyota in ashland kentucky this dealership was closed by the fbi for cheating people on paying for sold cars.

I put my car in park and left it running exited the car open the back door and walked behind the car and then the car began rolling backwards until it ran into a wall after I had already removed items from the back door and walked behind the car.

When driving at a speed anywhere from 10 to 60 mph, the skid control light and vsc trac can go off; alarm sounds. . . Vehicle shake and grinding coming from brakes. Brakes and do not work well when this occurs. This can happen at any time. It is now occurring very frequently. The only way to stop it is to shut the car off. . . . And restart the vehicle.

The engine warning light keeps coming on. I have it repaired and a few months later it comes back on. This has been happening since I bought the car used 10 year ago.

The frame of the Toyota Sequoia is rotted out. My mechanic was doing a safety after I had purchased the vehicle. He discovered the frame was rotted out. (his words) he said the vehicle was not safe to drive.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015, I was driving down interstate 37 toward corpus christi, TX, and out of the blue my well maintained vehicle had a hard shake/shimmy in the rear end. It rocked my rearend left to right. Very scary. Luckily I had both hands on the wheel. The traction control sensor went off. I braked, thinking maybe I had had a tire go flat quickly. Very scary at 75 mph. Also very lucky that not semi's or vehicles were near me. I turned the Sequoia off and got out to check the tires. There was no problem. I got back in and restarted the vehicle, the traction control lights had gone off, so I started to accelerate back into traffic. . . And the Sequoia went crazy again, rear end shaking, traction control lights going off. It was 8 pm, dark. I was too scared to try driving again, so I called for a tow. I have done some research on similar problems and found there were many. Some people say it is an electronic control sensor. Each wheel has one and maybe one went out causing that wheel to rotate differently from the others, jerking the car around. This is very dangerous! I had been in san antonio, TX rush hour traffic just 3 hours before and had this jerking that caused swerving happened on the downtown highways, someone could have been killed. People should be warned and Toyota should recall vehicles affected, because from my research, there are a lot of affected Sequoias.

Was driving through town at about 50mph when the whole car started to sway back and forth. We immediately called my maintenance guy at midas and drove it over. Turns out the entire frame rusted and rotted through from the inside out. We had it thoroughly checked out by a couple of people last year before putting money into fixing it up and keeping it for my son to drive. It checked out fine. Nobody could tell it was rotting from the inside out. If the frame had fallen apart 4 days earlier, my son and I would have been severely injured, as he drove it for 2 hrs around the highway. We were told that if it had fallen apart around a turn on the interstate or on an off ramp, it would have flipped over. I don't know how it didn't happen then, but am grateful it didn't while he was driving. The service manager at midas has said he has never seen anything like it in all his years working on cars. When I called Toyota about the problem and knowing that online we have read many stories of the same problem, they stonewalled me and told me there was nothing they could do. I am truly concerned for anyone else driving one of these Sequoias and not knowing that it could fall apart at any time. The rest of the vehicle is in amazing shape, and it is disappointing that Toyota had not recalled these, as they did the tacomas several years ago. It is a very dangerous situation!.

Frame rusted out with holes throughout the frame.

I barely tapped thr back of an old Toyota corolla and at a low speed where no damage was done to either vehicle beside mine when the airbags unnecessarily deployed and shattered my windshield. When I took it to my body shop guy he said there was no way the airbags should've deployed he had checked my sensors and they had not been touched. About a month ago I took my car to my local Toyota dealership for someone to come up from I believe atlanta and inspect my car. I never could get a response from him. Testerday I called my local Toyota inquiring about my airbags problem and they said yours were recalled new ones are here bring your car here in the morning and it'll take about three hours to fix. I was excited to finally get somewhere with this issue. . . This morning I take my car up there and they tell me that it wasnt recalled and to call the guy who cane down and inspected it. I am not happy with the way this is being handled and how no one will take responsibility for this defect and fix it.

This vehicle has been recalled under a "limited service campaign" for excessive frame rust. Vehicles for this campaign are being inspected and if they do not have significant frame perforation from rust, a rust resistant compound is being applied. For vehicles that do have significant frame perforation, failing the inspection, Toyota is replacing the frame of the vehicle. My complaint is that while Toyota is replacing the frame free of charge, they are not going to cover the costs of any component that breaks (due to significant rust) during the disassembly or reassembly, I. E. Any rusted parts or even nuts and bolts that are not reusable. This is outrageous, it is their fault that many things will have to be removed when they otherwise wouldn't have to be, and I will be expected to pay for it? this treatment was confirmed by calling Toyota customer care. I believe I will be looking at significant costs, which are unknown until they happen, at which point I will be forced to pay for it or be left with a partially assembled, undriveable vehicle due to faulty Toyota parts.

While driving at 60 mph the vehicle pulled sharply to the right and its trac/vcs control lights began to blink and the warning sound came on as well. The vehicle made a grinding sound and I pulled over to the side of the road. I shut the car off and waited a few minutes. I turned on the vehicle and the indicator lights were off and it drove normal. This same incident continues to happen even after I took it in to get diagnosed. I was told by a Toyota technician that he could not find the problem.

To whom it may concern, on may 24, 2014, I was traveling with my kids through interstate 15 south at approximately 65 miles per hour. My truck pulled me to the right in which I had to react fast and hold on to the steering wheel with both hands. Vsc-trac off light turned on with a beeping noise. I tried to break and my truck lost controlled and began making a grinding metal noise. I took my foot off the break and steered straight. This lasted about 10 seconds. I had my kids with me. If I hadn't reacted fast, we were going to be thrown off the freeway. I took it in to the mecanic and the computer scanner showed-no active faults. Vsc- is the vehicle stability control. The vsc auto engages and disengages. There's a button that turns off and off in the middle of the dashboard. I never touch this button. This vsc lights off and on and pulls the car without a warning. I called the dealership in escondido and spoke to mike in the service department. He said he's never heard anybody complain about this. I found out that there's a recall in the 2003 Toyota Sequoia. My truck has 189000 miles. I bought this car for safety for my children and it is very scary to have this happen to us. I have been researching this and there's other people having this happen to them but Toyota doesn't want to do a recall on this safety issue. There is a recall on the frame of 2001 Toyota Sequoia. Please assist us with this safety problem.

Toyota sent me a letter asking me to bring my 2001 Toyota Sequoia truck to a dealer near me to have my rusted frame replaced at no cost to me because they were having a service campaign for trucks like mine. After taking the truck there I got a call from the dealership telling me I had to pay almost $2300 for parts. I called Toyota to complain but with no positive results. The dealer said it is not safe to drive the vehicle and yet Toyota will not keep to their word of doing the repairs at no cost. I feel Toyota needs to own up and fix a problem that was their fault to begin with.

After coming back from trip, me and my family were heading home (we were about 2 miles from home), and upon coming to a red light, I stepped the brake pedal on my 2001 Toyota Sequoia, and the car came to a complete stop; but when the green light traffic came on, and as soon as I let go of the brake pedal, and about to press the gas pedal, the car just stalled ( also with battery light on indication lit, check engine on, abs lit, vsc trac lit, vsc off lit, brake light indication lit, abs light). So, first thing I did is turn off the engine , put the car in the park gear ( at the same time my foot is on the brake pedal), but as soon as I turn on the engine, put the car in drive and let go of the brake pedal, the car stalled again. Next thing I did is let 2 people push the car while in neutral to put the car in a safe place where there is no traffic, upon them pushing the car, they left, and the car was still running even no one pushing it, and came the scariest 20 seconds of my life, car made a a loud annoying grinding sound, car still moving, even with emergency brake on, my foot on the brake, key removed from ignition, car placed in park, in other words I had no control of the car. After 20 seconds, the car came to a complete stop, and we got out of the car scared and shaking, I thought we were going to die that day, but thank god the car stopped, or maybe my kids angels helped avoided an accident. Also good thing there was no heavy incoming traffic, there was 1 or 2 cars only in the way that stayed out of our way. I need help, Toyota has to recall and fix it because is a safety issue and also it is the right thing to do, if not I will be reporting these to the better business bureau and the local state consumer agency.

The vsc and trac off lights came on. The Sequoia made a scrubbing noise and the vehicle skidded left and right a few times. Scary! the lights remained on. They went off later that night, but have come back on at least three other times since then. The vehicle has skidded all but one time. There should be a recall on this. I have seen many complaints but no recalls or help. The speed does not matter and there is no warning that this is about to happen. Help!.

While I was driving the vsc trac light came on, the vehicle started grinding while I was pressing the gas and brakes. The vehicle felt as if it was loosing power, I almost lost control of the steering wheel because car was losing power and control. The abs light also came on and vehicle started shaking very badly. This happens several times while I'm driving vehicle. I have taken it to be serviced from the dealer but the problem still exists. I will talk with an attorney about these problems because I am very afraid of a serious accident while driving my wife and kids.

Rear hatch does not open; several complaints of this online where around these year models the rear latch mechanism just stops working.