Toyota is recalling 167,802 Sienna hybrid minivans as a result of bolts on the backs of its third-row seats might not have been tightened correctly on the manufacturing facility.
The recall consists of 2021-2025 Toyota Sienna fashions, representing your entire model-year vary of the current-generation Sienna, which is accessible solely as a hybrid.
The affected minivans are geared up with 60/40 split-folding third-row seats during which the seat backs are bolted to recliner plates on both sides. The bolts holding the seat backs to those plates might not have been torqued to specification at a separate facility, in line with the NHTSA paperwork.
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If the seat bolts aren’t sufficiently tightened, the seats might not carry out as designed in a crash, the NHTSA stated, offering much less occupant safety. Toyota estimates that lower than 1% of the recalled autos even have this situation, which the automaker stated was found throughout an inspection at a manufacturing facility.
Toyota plans to inform homeowners of the recall by mail beginning Mar. 31, instructing them to take their autos to dealerships, the place the seat-back bolts shall be tightened to the correct spec freed from cost. Within the meantime, homeowners can name Toyota’s customer support division at 800-331-4331 for extra data. Toyota’s reference quantity for this recall is 25TA05.
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The Sienna is EPA rated at 36 mpg mixed in its customary front-wheel drive configuration, and 35 mpg mixed with elective all-wheel drive. In a primary drive, we discovered that this effectivity plus the Sienna’s newfound design aptitude helped make the minivan related once more.
Almost the entire few minivans nonetheless out there within the U.S. supply hybrid powertrains. The Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid is a plug-in hybrid with 32 miles of EPA electrical vary. The Kia Carnival added a hybrid powertrain choice for 2025, rated at 33 mpg mixed, leaving the Honda Odyssey as the one non-hybrid minivan.
