[Dimitrij]

I'm over 6000 miles now - Sienna is running great and has been awesome for our family!

Thank you for rescuing this thread from the "oil changing hole" it had fallen into

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Exactly one year after the purchase clocked exactly 38,000 miles. While doing the dump run

 

[Dimitrij]

I see I have been summoned. I passed 100k on 5/16 at about 3pm. im now at 101233 as of 5/19/2023. I bought the van on June 2nd, of 2021. View attachment 56297

as far as issues go, wear parts are wearing. rear shocks are completely blown out, gonna have to do another wheel bearing, I think another is already dying even though I just did one. might do all the 3 originals just to get them out of the way now and not die a slow death of changing them. my pull up sun shades for the sliding doors have some scrapes and gashes in them. one of the upper pegs got completely snapped off. I have a plastic panel under the van that was smashed by something(I don't recall driving over anything large, would have made a ruckus, and I didn't hear no ruckus). the driver seat is completely flat, but still comfortable enough. might look at replacing the seat cover and/or cushion soon if I can. The drivers door sill has a massive spot on the paint that is worn away from me stepping on it when I get out of the van(see picture). The interior in the rear is holding up okay, but obviously, since i use this for delivery, the rear plastic is beat up, but still haven't broken any pieces off. the rear fold down seat is still folded down, and hasn't moved since the day I bought it, literally never had an ass on it and looks like new. the mid row seats obviously were taken out, but the seat tracks were not. the mid row seats sit perfectly in my basement covered over by garbage bags, and again, look like new. the steering wheel buttons get shiny, and no matter how much I clean them, they don't go back to that matte look. you can see which buttons I use the most. the infotainment system still works. I have hit that screen a number of times with stuff and it hasn't broken, so there is that. the "pLeather" that covers the door arm rests, the bridge arm rests, and the lower dash board is hard to clean, and has been mostly worn flat on the drivers side from me resting my arms there. the glove box is beat up from me jamming boxes and shit in there. the passenger seat is near perfect, but has a mystery stain on it, since i don't often have passengers, and I don't put food over there, and I go thru the car wash several times a week, and it has free vacs, so I often suck out the crud. oh well. it still does not burn oil. hardly loses any between changes. I replaced the drain plug with a fumoto valve after the first oil change, game changer when you change your oil often, and also means way less mess, because I can just run it straight to the bottom of the pan. engine has not lost any mileage, as far as I can tell, I am on fuelly, and log every fuel up. im gonna have to log a correction, as the van came with 263 miles on it when my wife picked it up from the dealership. I turned the power sliding doors off within the first week, they are too slow, and I don't want them to break with 30+ open/close cycles per day. It eats the inside of all 4 tires, despite the alignment being "fine". i might take it to a different shop that was willing to get my old GM cargo van some custom alignment setup changes that let me get to about 120k per set of tires. so far, I have gone thru the OEM factory tires, plus a set of snow tires which may not get reused, and now a set of OEM FT140s that have about 35000 on them and are holding up okay.

Hey, I can see that not only miles, but also months fly like crazy in Minnesota - 2023 already? Around here we are still kind of stuck in 2022, darn it

Otherwise, I have already figured out that this van may be a Toyota, but build quality-wise it is not yer pre-COVID, Japan-made, rock-solid Prius, so it probably will not get to 131K miles with scheduled maintenance only. It kind of feels "soft", not unlike the 2000's Hyundais - complete with the transient creaks, the (occasionally) stuck open sliding door, and the tailgate that sometimes requires to be slammed to shut properly. I dearly hope that the powertrain and the electronics will last, though, and I did buy extended warranty for 125K miles over 3 more years.

 

[Dimitrij]

A quick update: in less than 18.5 months Sparkolls has accumulated almost 59K miles, which translates into about 3.2K mi/month. At this mile-eating rate I will be out of extended warranty by the time the van is 38 months old (10 months short of the warranty period!), and out of traction battery warranty in less than 4 years. Wow.

I need a smart plan to "slow down" the mileage consumption by 12K miles/year .... stay tuned

 

[Dimitrij]

Gosh, I love driving this minivan. I plan on keeping it in perpetuity. (Hope it lasts me 400K+ miles)

Bought the van in October 2021, which puts me at ~3,333miles driven/month

That's the problem with us as well. The Sienna is extremely convenient for work, AND is super comfortable (and convenient) for weekend use, so we ended up driving it everywhere instead of splitting the leisure miles between the Sienna and the CX-3.

UPDATE Dec 1, 2022:

I am working on a plan to reduce the annual mileage on Sparkollz by 12K miles (target). I hope that in a few months I will no longer qualify to participate in this thread