Carrier/rack problems of the 2005 Toyota Sienna

1. Spare tire fell out from under car while driving . 2. Dashboard cracked a white powder is now appearing . If I take it to dealership I know they are going to blame it on the age of car and charge me big repair bucks !.

Cable on spare tire carrier under vehicle broke and fortunately spare tire appeared to have bounced away form vehicle and in to lava field. Could have been so much worse. Local dealership stated they have no information regarding a recall on the spare tire carrier. However, I see it reflected on line. I have a broken spare tire carrier and cannot locate the spare anywhere if the field. Toyota USA states to contact servco but they are of no help.

This is a customers car. I work in an alignment shop. The customer dropped this car off this morning for an alignment. I drove the car into the shop, on the alignment rack this morning. When I got out of the car, and walked around to the front of the car, I noticed the hood was open. I did not remember popping the hood, but I figured I just forgot, and proceeded to shut the hood, as I didn't need it open to align the vehicle. When I tried to close the hood, it would not catch, it just kept popping back up. It seemed to me that the latch was stuck. After looking under the hood, I looked under the dash. What I found, was the hood latch cable was routed under the parking brake arm, every time you set the parking brake, you were "popping" the hood! this can be a very dangerous situation! if you set the parking brake without knowing the hood is open, you could get back in the car and drive away, and have the hood fly open at highway speed, very dangerous! on this car I disconnected the latch cable, and rerouted it.

Dashboard started becoming soft a few months ago, where if you accidently scraped it with your fingernail a little chunk would come out, and then it started cracking and every time we get in there, there is another crack. Worried about air bag coming out. I'm just now reading that a letter was sent out from Toyota about this to owners, but we never got one. We have gotten one for a couple of other things, but not for this and we didn't get one for clicking noise on driver's door either, which is happening now. I know the car is older, but if these are defects, Toyota should fix them. I'm reading about a lot of people having the same problems.

I've noticed a crack that has appeared on the dashboard (near glove compartment) at the passenger side going towards the radio player. There's another crack on the dashboard near the vent on the driver's side. I've done my research regarding this and found that it is a known issue for 2005 Toyota Sienna. I've contacted a representative of Toyota dealership in tysons, va for them to take a look. I also wanted to file a formal complaint regarding this issue.

Contacted local dealer and Toyota about "customer support program ze6" cracked dashboard. Dealer keeps promising to install month after month, for the last six month with no resolution. Toyota said they no eta on replacement dashboards. Car is not in a sellable condition with cracked dashboard.

The driver's side power sliding door will open about 4 inches then returns to close. There is nothing blocking the track. Estimates that I have read have been anywhere from $1500 - $2500 to get this fixed. I have three small children, one of whom is disabled. If there was an emergency, I would not be able to get my children out of the vehicle quickly. I do not have the finances to get this fixed. After reading about this same complaint from hundreds of other owners, could there be an investigation or recall for this problem? is there any place I can get help for this problem? my children's safety is of utmost importance to me.

Vehicle had got cracks spreading across the dashboard and this could cause the air bad on the passenger side of the vehicle to inflate.

First dashboard has numerous cracks, then rear camera stopped working, then navigation system stopped working, now radio works intermittently - I believe the problem is electrical because of continuous humming sound radio emits. I am concerned about the airbags and also being without rear camera frightenes me. Toyota has refused to fix problem 0 states out of warranty.