200,000miles + and still running fine!
Yes, we’ve had maybe me major repair, but not too major —I can’t remember now what it was. But what I do remember are all the road trips with the kids, through all kinds of weather and terrain (some mild off-roading), helping friends move, managing our own moves with this van— it has done everything with us and served us well.
The interior is laid out sensibly and comfortably, and even now the upholstery and coachwork is holding up well (no sagging ceiling fabric like my old Ford Ranger at just 100,000 miles). The roof rack has seen a lot of use, and the roof surface is pretty scratched up, but hasn’t rusted (we live in California and travel through AZ, NV, OR and WA every year, but no Florida salt breeze and no Northeastern winter road salt, so ymmv). It handles well enough in snow and ice, same in loose sand and washboard dirt roads and gravel... it isn’t an Astrovan or a 4WD but it will get by with an experienced hand at the wheel. We used it as our ski trip transport for the past 12 years and it has performed very well at 9000ft altitude, steep icy driveways, snowy cruddy parking lots, starts up without complaint in subzero mornings.
It is showing its age though. With our hot summers, the dash stereo controls are beginning to fade: they work fine when cool, but after a few hours in direct sun, we have to control the stereo with the steering-wheel controls. Not even the volume knob works, the display fades out, the preset buttons don’t function (but the preset memory never fails from the heat. Not yet anyway).
We are finally thinking of trading in our beloved Sienna for a newer van or SUV, maybe a Chrysler Pacifica hybrid, or even a Tesla Model Y. But they’ll have to be pretty amazing to compare to our Sienna. The kids grew up in this van, they’ll feel weird seeing us in something else...
#GoodTimes
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