Owners/service Manual problems of the 2004 Toyota Sienna

Started having problem with the doors on the van the front door was the first problem with a failed door cheek causing the door not to be able to be opened had to force it open and remove the door cheek due to a weld that had broken away from the door is why it failed and the second was the power sliding door on the passenger side the door quite working and then when switched into the manual mode I was unable to get the door to close or it would close them come back open it took almost a hour to get it to close and stay closed. This being the car I transport my kids in that's a big safety issue to me knowing the door may not work or may not say closed while driving please help.

My automatic sliding door cable has frayed. I can't use the door now. Somehow I magically got it shut, but now it is completely locked down to try and protect the kids and to keep the van in a usable state (obviously you can't drive around a vehicle whose door won't close). The vehicle was stationary when this happened. It was over a couple of days from when I first heard a strange noise when the door was moving to when it stopped functioning altogether. The last time I tried to close it it had been opened on accident by a babysitter who didn't know and we had to keep pressing the manual open/close button continually and inch it to a closed position, because it kept trying to reopen the door. I have 6 kids, 5 in car seats. I really need to be able to access the babies car seats without climbing into the van. This is ridiculous. We are down to one door. Also it is completely unsafe in the event that an accident were to occur. As a side note the motor seems to be working fine. The cables are the problem.

2004 Toyota Sienna right side rear power door will not close. Opens half way and then must be manually closed. Cable broken. Causes safety concern for passengers in rear seats ability to exit car in emergency. My grandchildrens lives are precious to me!.

Purchased 2004 Sienna xle awd limited 2/18/15. While commuting to work the traction control system randomly activates in dry conditions (usually on downhill angled turn) causing loss of power, activation of front right brakes, and the steering wheel jerked from my hands (resulting in transient overall loss of control of vehicle). This defect has occurred 6 times in 2 days and I am currently afraid to drive the car, especially with a 3 month old. There have been multiple reports on edmunds. Com and other Toyota forums that support this is an ongoing problem with this model/year vehicle. This is a safety defect and the vehicle should be recalled to prevent injury or fatality and to resolve the issue with the tcs. There is no way to turn off the tcs manually and this issue can cause an accident.

Our power sliding passenger door has had issues over the years where it wouldn't function properly, and we had it repaired at Toyota. Most recently, the door wouldn't open automatically, we would have to push it hard to make it open or close. Then, the door just wouldn't close, and we had to drive home with it partly open. We brought it into the Toyota dealership and they told us the motor needs to be replaced, at a cost of over $2,000! we can't afford this, so we told them we can't fix it, but asked if we could manually open it. They cut the cable so we could manually open it, but they told us not to use it too much or it may have further issues. Now, it appears we cannot use this door, which means my children need to enter the opposite door, entering from the street. This is a problem for us, but we are stuck because we can't afford the huge repair bill.

My wife was shopping with my 3 year old daughter and dog and couldn't get the drivers side auto sliding door to shut. I arrived and noticed the cable sheathing was frayed approximately 6 inches in from the pulley system. The door would auto slide until this frayed part hit the pulley, sieze and return open. I manually tried pulling the door shut thinking I could get the frayed part through the pulley, but I guess the tolerances were too tight and it wouldn't allow closure. The local Toyota dealership told me to cut the cable so I cut the tensioner cable portion behind the door to allow it to close. After dropping off at the Toyota, they demanded a $1000 upfront fee from my wife for a new motor. I am trying to get them to cancel the motor purchase since the motor still works, but haven't gotten through yet. The locking mechanism still works (after I cut the cable and was able to shut the door). With the number of complaints, NHTSA needs to bring this up to Toyota and make a recall.

Toyota issued a recall for the power cord on the electric sliding door. The design (located on the door's exterior) exposed it to the elements and caused the cable to snap. That happened to my 2004 Sienna but my van was beyond the max mileage they allowed in the recall. So we've just been using the door manually. Yesterday, my son opened the door a liitle too hard and he had to pull harder than normal to get it to close. When he pulled and the door released, the door fell off!!!! we have running boards so the door was resting on the running boards. I can not believe a door would just fall off! no door should ever fall off, especially a quality Toyota vehicle. This happened in my driveway, so we were okay but what if this would have happened when I was an hour away from home like I would have been today, at my son's basketball game? we would have had to have it towed and dealt with how to get my family of 5 back home. I believe this would have never happened had Toyota not excluded my van from the recall due to mileage.

The cables on both the left and right side automated sliding passenger doors have snapped within a 4 months of one another (right side on 8/24 and the left side on 12/26) and now I am unable to open either door. The doors will not operate even manually so the only way for a passenger to get in our out of the car is through the rear lift tailgate or the front doors of the vehicle. This is not acceptable in the case of an emergency or accident. Toyota extended the warranty on these components to 120k miles but this was announced after my vehicle passed that mileage. Toyota is charging customers to allow the doors to be operated manually even with this being a clear safety issue. Toyota needs to recall these vehicles for this condition based on the safety issues this creates for passengers. Toyota service bulletin number (sb-0280-10) date of bulletin : oct 04, 2010 NHTSA item number : 10036906 component : structure:body:door summary : Toyota: some vehicles may exhibit a condition where one or both sliding doors do not open or close smoothly. Inspect the sliding door lock assemblies and replace the affected components as needed, according to the listed instructions.

I have a 2004 Toyota Sienna that has manual sliding rear doors. I have replaced the handles on both doors within the last 6 months. The latest one I replaced was the rear passenger side door. The apparent reason for these breaking off is the fact that the doors are jamming and it is extremely difficult to open the door. Even though I have replaced the rear passenger handle, it still will not open from the inside or outside. . . It does open on "occasion" but it is finicky. . I have gone on line and noticed thousands of other Toyota Sienna owners are experiencing identical problems which leads me to feel strongly that this should be a "recall" issue that should be covered by Toyota!! I have 2 small children that travel in this vehicle and this could be a life threatening issue, god forbid!.

Radiator ruptured and the engine overheated; hose replaced in steering column recall; rust protective tape recall; dvd screen replaced and the entire dvd player replaced(screen still not easily visible in middle row); passenger seat belt replaced; middle passenger seat belt failing; gasoline smell inside of car with ac on recirculation; driver's window fell inside door in snow storm and was not considered a safety issue to get a loaner vehicle even though the vehicle could not be locked; tires completely bald and leaking under 30,000 miles, dvd player must be at a high db volume and when returned to radio/cd will almost deafen you; interior lights have to be manually over ridden or will drain battery; car hesitates 1-2 seconds when trying to quickly accelerate and then lurches forward alarmingly; cruise control is not functioning; waiting to have fuel mixture sensor replaced. I was not informed of first 2 recalls until I my engine overheated. I did get the rust recall and a sticker on my sliding door informing user of danger of having middle windows open while opening the middle door could catch a head or other extremity. Toyota dealer service manager says mine is the only 04 Sienna experiencing any problems except for the recalls on the radiator; the steering hose; the rust tape; and the middle seat belt. Not so according to all I have read here. Most of the problems have occurred between 22,000 and 34,000 miles; the dvd screen always failed to lock into a good position for the middle row viewers.