Other speed control problem on the 2003 Toyota Sequoia Sr5
1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 21 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other speed control problem gets reported
Owners of the 2003 Toyota Sequoia Sr5 report other speed control problem at a median of 105,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 85,000 miles and a quarter after 125,000 miles, from 18 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 78,000 miles. It is the 2nd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 60,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 145,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 86,800 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
0% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60,000 miles | 82,820 miles | 103,000 miles | 122,500 miles | 146,800 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $250–$2,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Vsc/trac light starting going on and off than stayed on than the slip indicator light went on and the buzzer would ring a few times than the rear tires skidded on their own and seemed to kind of "lock up" than it went away. This happened 3x in a weeks period so I looked it up in my owner's manual and it said to take it in to the toyota dealer which I did on 11/03/09. This is the 2nd toyota sr5 I have bought. I traded my 2001 sr5 in for this one because the vsc trac lights kept going on in it too but the electric windows stopped working as well. We bought the 36 months, 36,000 mile extended warranty which the salesman told us would cover "everything" bumper to bumper and that it was "better" than the previous certified platinum extended warranty that we had purchased with our 2001 sr5. I bought this 2003 sr5 on 12-15-07 and this is the first time I had any problem with the lights or skidding. I was taking my grandson to the dentist when it happened and it was scary. Thank god no one got hurt. I immediately took it in to the dealer only to find out that the skid control replacement is not covered and that the cost for repairs would…
The vsc and 4 wd lights came on in our 2003 toyota sequoia. When starting in forward, there is a loud grind and a thump. This happened shortly (1 week) after replacing the brake pads. I placed the car in manual 4 wheel drive and move it very slowly back and forth. The lights are off, but it seems like a temporary fix. *tw
2003 toyota sequoia will unexpectedly loose power when turning and then acceleration races up after a long pause. This has happened about once per month since purchasing the vehicle in 2003 and has several times resulted in near-miss crashes from approaching traffic as the vehicle will not move out of the way of oncoming traffic. *tr
Also reported on the 2003 Toyota Sequoia Sr5
Other driver assistance problem
Tail light, brake light or signal failure
Other brake problem
ABS module or sensor failure
Software fault or failed update
Master cylinder or brake booster failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 21 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other speed control problem happen on the 2003 Toyota Sequoia Sr5?
Across 18 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 105,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 85,000 miles and a quarter after 125,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other speed control problem on the 2003 Toyota Sequoia Sr5?
21 reports have been filed with NHTSA. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed