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2002 Toyota Sequoia transmission problems

Owners reported transmission problems in 23 complaints for the 2002 Toyota Sequoia, 2% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
23 2% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
82,000 miles 21 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
2 and 0
Injuries and deaths
1 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When transmission problems show up

Transmission complaints by mileage, 2002 Toyota Sequoia Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 82,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 0 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 1 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 1 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 6 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 5 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 3 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 3 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 1 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 1 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 82,000 miles
Based on 21 complaints that include mileage. 10% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles0
20k to 40k miles1
40k to 60k miles1
60k to 80k miles6
80k to 100k miles5
100k to 120k miles3
120k to 140k miles3
140k to 160k miles1
160k to 180k miles1
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 21 transmission complaints that report mileage, the median is about 82,000 miles, and 10% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 2 crashes, 1 injury.

What owners wrote

The vehicle was placed into park with the engine running, when all of a sudden it rolled backwards. The engine was left running in the park position when it rolled out of the driveway struck the consumer as he/she was trying to stop it and crashed into a tree *scc

August 2003 CrashInjury

While traveling any where I would lose power and my vsc trac warning lights and skid trac lights will come on and I will have to wait for the lights to go off in order to get my power back. And also I had to replace two of my door handles. And before my SUV was 3yrs I had to replace the transmission.

Reported at 80,000 miles, May 2004

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