Ken Kirsch

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February 16, 2005, on Toyota Sienna Review:
We have always had very little problems with any of the Toyota's that we have purchased. But when we purchased a 1998 Sienna van with all of the options, we did not experience the "Oh what a feeling" quality. At about 32,000 miles the dealership informed us we needed new brakes and rotors (The Rotors were badly rusted) which did not seem right, we paid to have it fixed and continued driving our van. At about 50,000 miles are van started with a blue smoke. The blue smoke exhaust continued to get worse to the point where every time we accelerated we would leave blue smoke trail. The first time we asked our dealership about the problem they informed me that I had not maintained the vehicle correctly and needed to change the oil in a more regimented fashion. We proceeded to follow their recommendations. Several months later and three oil changes the issue remained. We even tried Motor flush before changing the oil. Then we got a Service bulletin from Toyota about the Siena engine. We co...