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Toyota Sienna Maintenance and Repair (2004+)
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I have to hold down the remote opener for about 3 seconds before the rear sliding doors will open. Other Sienna's of friends open quicker which I prefer. The dealer tells me my doors open normally and cannot be changed.
More importantly is the reverse opening when the doors bumps into someone/something. I have found that in many instances, the door requires a lot (too much) of pressure before it will reverse. If this is meant to be a safety feature, the door will surely crush a small child before reversing open. My dealer looked at it, tested it by standing in the doorway (all 200lbs of him) and said it was operating normally and that it cannot be adjusted.
Has anyone else experienced these problems?
Same Service Depts can be so pathetic. Quality service is cheaper in the long run than shoddy service but some just don't understand that.
WHy don't you just get a steel wheel for the spare?
A question about the accuracy of the NAV: My wife has a 04 Lexus RX330 and we just bought a 05 Sienna Ltd with NAV. If we enter a destination address in the NAV, it doesn't quite guide you to the door. It says you have arrived at the destination even 100 or 200 yards before the actual address. We went to a party last night and had to spent a few minutes looking for the house in darkness after the NAV announced we had arrived. This happens with both the Lexus and the Sienna. All the time when we arrived at destinations, the weather was good and we weren't in someplace that had bad satelite reception. My old portable Garmin Street Pilot had beeter accuracy. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Douglas
They work great now!
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AC005-04
Title:
SEAT HEATER ONLY WORKS ON HIGH
Models:
’04 Sienna
Technical Service
BULLETIN
September 20, 2004
Some 2004 model year Sienna vehicles may experience a concern where the driver and
passenger seat heaters do not operate until the temperature control switch is turned to
the high position. The following repair procedure has been made available to correct
this concern.
joeyalphabet
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It is not getting fuel. Will turn over and run for 1 or 2 sec., then quits. Will continue to run as long as you stand in front and feed it starter fluid.
It is cold here, 10-30 defrees F, so I added 24 oz. of gasline anti-freeze. No help either. Can't get it to a dealer until Monday. Seems like a computer signal or something related to VSC, will not send gas to the carbuerator. Any ideas? Please help! Thanks.
i have the same problem trying to see the dvd in the nav scree but have not been able to figure out yet also the "big" sienna forum is to big to find can you please tell me the forun number
In fact, on the day i had scheduled this dealer to do the work they told me to come back because they had to order the parts, and just to confirm that i had the problem.
hope that helps
This only works on 04s. 05s have a different setup and I'm not sure what you have to do with them.
you must be sure the key was un-pluged after you left, otherwise, even though you turned off the headlights the battery still will be run out. i experienced this before with my 04 sienna.
I get tired of my vehicles always coming back from their respective dealerships with black fingerprints everywhere.....
was this problem always there from day 1 of purchase or did this problem develop after some period of time had past?
Lightly coat the door seals.