2001 Toyota Sequoia problems
Owners have filed 858 complaints with NHTSA about the 2001 Toyota Sequoia. Brakes is the most reported problem area, at 22% of complaints. After that come stability control (15%) and body & structure (13%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 858 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 22% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 31 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 20 and 1
- Typical mileage
- 120,000 miles 704 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 42 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 33 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 27 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 57 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 74 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 100 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 90 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 112 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 70 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 41 |
| 200k+ miles | 58 |
What the data shows
Among the 704 complaints that report mileage, the typical (median) problem appeared at about 120,000 miles. For brakes specifically, the median reported mileage is about 104,000 miles (152 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 31 complaints mention a crash; 20 injuries reported; 1 death reported. Its complaints are less severe on average than those of 83% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2001 ranks 4th most-complained-about out of 12 model years of the Toyota Sequoia with enough data (172 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Unexpected acceleration on a 2001 toyota sequoia registered to a mother of 4. Incident occurred on I85 at mile-marker 104 in broad daylight with clear, dry conditions. With recent revelations about toyota hidden safety around unexpected acceleration, this is the only explanation that makes sense with regards this fatal accident. Updated 03/14/10 according to the police report, the right front tire of the vehicle ran off the roadway to the right onto the rumble strip.
My family of 5 was in an accident on highway 95 in brevard county florida over $10,000 of front end damage on toyota sequoia with less than 10000 miles on it. No air bags deployed several injuries sustained.
Tl*the contact owns a 2001 toyota sequoia. The contact was driving approximately 40 MPH in rainy weather conditions. An increase of acceleration occurred without warning. Suddenly, the vehicle steered into another lane due to a loss of steering control. The vehicle continued to accelerate and crashed into a wall; another vehicle rear ended the vehicle. The vehicle was completely destroyed with injuries to the driver and passenger. A police report was filed. The failure mileage was 70,000.
I have a sequoia 2001 limited and the vsc trac and off light come on after you drive for a while and when turning off the vehicle and restart it back again the lights go off. It happened before last year in 2008 a few couple of times and I took it to the dealer a every time it happened and they said it was ok. Now in 2009 in the last two months the car will shake a bit and would make this beep beep sound then it looses acceleration and looses power temporarily and I can not seem to apply the breaks properly before…
My 2001 toyota sequoia is experiencing false skid indications resulting in dangerous applications of the right front wheel brake. The indications are illumination of the skid symbol, rapid antiskid servo action, right front wheel brake application which last from one second to as much as 30 seconds. Once the right front brake application stops, the skid symbol is no longer illuminated and the trac off and vsc trac lights illuminate.