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Toyota Sienna, model years 2004 to 2009. Filed by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing and reported to NHTSA on 26 September 2013. 614,722 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Toyota is recalling certain model year 2004-2005 Sienna vehicles manufactured January 10, 2003, through August 10, 2005; and model year 2007-2009 Sienna vehicles manufactured February 20, 2007, through December 12, 2008. In the affected vehicles, due to a problem within the shift lock solenoid, there is a possibility …

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Which vehicles does recall 13V429 cover?
Toyota Sienna, model years 2004-2009.
What is wrong with them?
Toyota is recalling certain model year 2004-2005 Sienna vehicles manufactured January 10, 2003, through August 10, 2005; and model year 2007-2009 Sienna vehicles manufactured February 20, 2007, through December 12, 2008.
What can happen if it is not put right?
If the shift lever is moved out of the Park position without the brake applied, the transmission will either engage a drive gear or Neutral, increasing the risk of a backover or roll away crash.
Is there a fix yet?
Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Toyota will mail interim notifications to owners beginning in late October 2013. When parts are available, owners will be sent a second notice and dealers will replace the shift lock solenoid, free of charge. Owners may contact Toyota at 1-800-331-4331.
What should I do now?
Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.

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What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “If the shift lever is moved out of the Park position without the brake applied, the transmission will either engage a drive gear or Neutral, increasing the risk of a backover or roll away crash.”

614,722vehicles potentially
affected
1model named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 26 September 2013owners told 27 February 2014today
The defect reached the regulator on 26 September 2013. Owners were written to 154 days later, on 27 February 2014. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign is in the slowest tenth of the register.
Campaign13V429
Filed byToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing
System at faultPower Train:Automatic Transmission
Reported to NHTSA26 September 2013
Model years2004-2009
Vehicles namedTOYOTA SIENNA

What the notice says today

The consequence

If the shift lever is moved out of the Park position without the brake applied, the transmission will either engage a drive gear or Neutral, increasing the risk of a backover or roll away crash.

The remedy

Toyota will mail interim notifications to owners beginning in late October 2013. When parts are available, owners will be sent a second notice and dealers will replace the shift lock solenoid, free of charge. Owners may contact Toyota at 1-800-331-4331.

What it said before

This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.

This is one of 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.

Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.

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