1999 Toyota Sienna Body and structure Problems

“The cable to my drivers side sliding door snapped, thus the door can no longer be opened automatically. This defect is under a warranty enhancement for model years 2004-2007, but I have a 2009 model year.”

“On back door of minivan, the outside handle broke when we squeezed it to open. The door cannot be opened. Why is there no release from the inside? The quote to fix is $275-300. Also, on the rear sliding door (driver side, not an automatic sliding door), the push-button latch sticks so the door will not latch when closing; we have to pry the push-button out with a key or screw driver so the door will latch.”

“I am writing in regards to my 1999 Toyota Sienna xle. We have had (and loved) this car for all of it 134,000 miles, but recently the power sliding door (on the passenger side) stopped working. Using brute force, an adult can manually pull the door open and shut, but a child cannot. My local Toyota admits that this is a design issue and that he's seen dozens of such cases, but that has no bearing on the fact that it costs upwards of $1600 to make the fix. This hardly seems fair, reasonable or safe. …”

“I have owned my 1999 Sienna for 5 years. Two months after purchasing my rear hatch door handle snapped. 3 years later it happened again. Now, every door handle on the van is broke. The slider doors stick causing you to have to pull hard on the doors to open. (and they were not sticky from soda) last month both the driver and the passenger front door handles broke. The design of the handles are poor in that the weight is not evenly distributed why pulling the handle. It all on one side and the weaker side snaps. The rear is a cheap plastic that snaps for no reason. …”

“The rear door of our 1999 Sienna van has already broken twice since we purchased it 5 years ago. I replaced it once, but cannot afford to again. As a result, I cannot get to the back which also prevents me from getting to my spare tire should I need it. In addition, when the back handle broke a year ago a week later a sliding door handle. Now, three days ago, another sliding door has broken. I have no money to replace this handles and it will run about 1,000 to fix all three. Further, the sliding door panels keep lifting and I have tried replacing the pegs with no luck. …”