Toyota Sienna

Registered in 2017.

About this model

The Toyota Sienna is a minivan manufactured and marketed by Toyota primarily for the North American market. It is named for the Italian city of Siena, in the region of Tuscany. It replaced the first generation Previa van, and the Toyota Camry wagon in 1997 with a more conventional front-wheel drive layout and shares a heavily revised platform with the Camry. Both the Previa and original Sienna were smaller than the other minivans they competed against, but a redesign in 2003 increased the dimensions to match those of its competitors.

From the Wikipedia article Toyota Sienna, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

What fails its inspection

Great Britain's MOT record for the 2017 3.5 petrol. 3 of 10 tests failed.

Where	Share of failures	Failed tests
Lights and electrics	100%	3
Brakes	33%	1

The defects inspectors cite

An obligatory rear fog lamp missing, or a front or rear fog lamp inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning
A brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm
A direction indicator lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning
A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning
Brakes imbalance across an axle such that the braking effort from any wheel is less than 70% of the maximum effort recorded from the other wheel on the same axle.

Before you buy one

Built from what this car fails on, not from general knowledge of the model.

Brakes — 33% of its failures
- A brake lining or pad worn below 1.5mm
Lights and electrics — 100% of its failures
- An obligatory rear fog lamp missing, or a front or rear fog lamp inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning
- A direction indicator lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning
- A lamp missing, inoperative or in the case of a multiple light source more than 1/2 not functioning