2014 Toyota Sienna Steering Problems

“Takata recall airbag warning light came on while driving on highway. Had diagnostic scan ran and found code for squib cable or clock spring is bad. Car is only five years old with a little over 60k miles. This cable is manufacturer built for this specific van and cost almost $700! I came in for a recall on my takata passenger airbags and wound up dropping more money! I have waited for almost a week for recall. Now I'm waiting longer for this replacement.”

“I took my Toyota Sienna van to Toyota of pharr to have my passenger air bag replace due to a recall. I made a schedule appointment on and it was completed, however, service person informed me that I needed to have my ' control arm ' replaced as well. He stated it it wasn't under warranty and no recall on it. The cost to have it done is $2,381.07. I asked him how did this happened. He stated it's the driving condition and miles. I told him my wife is retired and hardly drives it and only drives it on pave road. Also, it only has 70,000 miles. I told gentleman that that was too much money. …”

“Vehicle was stationary, bought from the dealership in feb (present month: sept). Less than 53k. One day instrument cluster was clear, drove home in the rain. The next morning I went out to go to work the speedometer was non-functional, ABS, vsc, trac, eps lights were all on and the exclamation mark was lit also. The car ran fine. At the dealership now; dealership says that it is the ABS actuator. It's bad. How does the ABS actuator of a car that isn't five years old bad? They say it will cost $3258.04 to fix ...and of course, out of warranty. …”

“I had the vehicle inspected by personal mechanic because the steering wheel would tighten and then release whenever turned to right and release on left turn. This would happen on a regular basis when turning the wheel. The mechanic did recommend that I called the manufacturer to check if there was any recall for the problem. Which I did. Respond was no and so I explained the problem to the representative. There is not a failure or incident except the steering wheel keeps on tightening and I'm just being cautious. …”

“The contact owns a 2014 Toyota Sienna. The contact stated that while attempting to turn the vehicle to the left or to the right, there was a grinding sensation in the steering column. The contact stated that the vehicle felt as if it was losing traction. There was no warning light illuminated. The contact had not taken the vehicle to the dealer. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 125,000.”