SCION Complaints

GLASS ROOF/SUNROOF ASSEMBLY CONSTANTLY CREAKS AND POPS. TAKEN TO DEALERSHIP AND TSB PERFORMED, NOISES WENT AWAY FOR APPROXIMATELY 2 WEEKS AND NOISE RETURNED. TOOK BACK TO DEALERSHIP, WAS INFORMED IT NEEDED "LUBRICATION" AND IT SHOULD BE FINE, NOISES HAVE RETURNED AGAIN. ALSO, THE HATCHBACK ALWAYS RATTLES, AS RECOMMENDED BY A SCION MESSAGE BOARD, SLIGHTLY LARGER BUMP STOPS WERE PURCHASED, WHICH LESSENED THE RATTLING, BUT IS STILL PRESENT WHEN GOING OVER BUMPS, SOUNDS LIKE IF HATCH WAS NOT FULLY CLOSED, BUT IT IS. ALL OF THE ABOVE INFORMATION IS FOR A SCION TC, OPTION FOR THIS VEHICLE WAS NOT AVAILABLE IN COMPLAINT FORM SO A SCION XB WAS SELECTED. *JB

MY DAUGHTER MAKING A LEFT TURN WAS STRUCK BY A PICKUP TRUCK. THE DRIVER'S DOOR WAS TORN FROM THE CAR, THE DRIVERS SEAT BELT SHREDDED CAUSING HER TO BE EJECTED FROM THE CAR. THE RESULTING INJURIES CAUSED HER DEATH. 2005 SCION TC. *NM

ENKEI WHEEL RIM BENT AND TIRE AND WHEEL NEED TO BE REPLACED. CAR NOT IN ACCIDENT AND I HAD A PROBLEM WITH THE TIRE VALVE BEFORE AND THE DEALER FIXED IT. I ALSO HAD A DEFECTIVE TIRE REPLACED A FEW MONTHS EARLIER. I THINK THIS WAS DEFECTIVE TOO, BUT NOW I HAVE TO PAY 465. TO FIX. *NM

SCION XB TRUCK HATCH WHILE CLOSING SHEERED MY NOSE WHILE CLOSING . PARMAMEDICS REQUIRED TO STABLIZE ME, AND ER TREATMENT WITH PLASTIC SURGEON FOR TREATMENT.

PURCHASED MY 2005 SCION TC ON JUNE 3RD, 2005 AND NOTICED ON JUNE 4TH WHEN DRIVING THE CAR FOR THE FIRST TIME ON CEMENT HIGHWAYS WITH RAINCHANNEL GROOVES CUT INTO THEM THAT THE TIRES WERE A SERIOUS SAFETY HAZARD! THE TIRES ARE PIRELLI P-ZERO NERO M/S TIRES, AND HAVE A FIVE RIBBED DESIGN TO THEM THAT HAPPENS TO BE THE SAME PATTERN THAT THE RAINCHANNELS ARE! THE TIRE GROOVES GRAB THE RAINCHANNELS IN THE ROAD AND PULL THE CAR ALL OVER THE ROAD! SOME PLACES I HAVE REFERENCED REFER TO THIS PROBLEM AS TRAMLINING. THIS IS THE MOST SERIOUS I HAVE EVER FELT THIS TYPE OF PROBLEM, AND REPORTED IT IMMEDIATELY TO THE DEALERSHIP ON THE FOLLOWING MONDAY JUNE 6TH. THEY AT FIRST CLAIMED THAT THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO ABOUT IT, SINCE I HAD PURCHASED THE CAR AND HAD TEST DRIVEN IT BEFORE THE PURCHASE. BUT, I HAD NOT DRIVEN IT ON THOSE TYPES OF ROADS! AFTER MY CONTINUAL COMPLAINTS TO OTHERS AT THE DEALERSHIP, ETC., THE DEALERSHIP THEN CONTACTED THE REGIONAL MANAGER FOR SCION AND THEN THE GENERAL MANAGER FOR THE STORE WAS WILLING TO GO AHEAD AND SWITCH THEM FOR A DIFFERENT SET OF TIRES THAT DID NOT HAVE THE SAME TREAD PATTERN. THEY WILL BE COMPLETING THE SWITCH ON JULY 21ST FOR ME...FINALLY! PEOPLE SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THESE PIRELLI TIRES WERE NOT DESIGNED FOR THE RAINCHANNELED ROADS IN THE US! THEY COULD CAUSE A SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO HAPPEN!

I HAVE A 2005 SCION TC, LAST MONDAY I ARRIVED HOME AND AFTER FIVE MINUTES WHILE I WAS BY THE CAR I HEARD A CRACK AND WHEN I LOOK AT THE CAR I SAW THAT THE BACK MOONROOF CRACKED WITHOUT ANY REASON.THE WAY IT CRACKED IT IS VERY WEIRD BECAUSE IT CRACKED ALL THE WAY AROUND AND AFTER THAT OVER THE NIGHT IT START COURVING UPWARD AND IT START FELING IN TO PIECES.

I JUST BOUGHT A SCION TC A MONTH AGO AND WAS SURPRISED BY THE PAINT DINGS CAUSED BY ROCKS. THIS IN ITSELF IS NOT A SURPRISE, BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE LAYER OF PAINT BETWEEN THE TOP OF THE CAR AND THE PRIMER. I HAVE CALLED SCION SUPPORT AND HAVE FILED A COMPLAINT WITH THEM TOO. THE DEALERSHIP WAS OF NO HELP SAYING THE ROCK DINGS ARE NORMAL (I KNOW THAT) AND DIDN'T MENTION ANYTHING OF THE QUALITY OF THE PAINT, DEFECT IN THE PAINT, OR DEFECT IN THE PAINTING PROCESS. ANY TYPE OF HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED TO ACTUALLY SEE IF THIS IS A PROBLEM.

I HAVE BRIDGESTONE POTENZA P215/45ZR17 TIRES ON MY CAR..THE TIRES DON'T HAVE EVEN 10000 MILES AND I ALREADY HAD TO GET 3 NEW TIRES AND 2 TO BE FIXED... CAUSE OF TWO ARE UNKNOWED ...I THINK IT WAS A POT HOLE IN THE ROAD... REST ARE NAILS IN TIRES... I'M DRIVING ON NORMAL US CITY ROADS. NO DIRT ROADS, NO BEACH DRIVING, NO SNOW DRIVING. AND THE NAILS FIND HOME IN MY TIRES. I UNDERSTAND SOMETIMES NAIL GET IN YOUR TIRE, BUT MOST OF THE TIME YOU DROVE SOMEWHERE THAT YOU SUPPOSE TO NOT BE DRIVING(CONSTRUCTIONS AND STUFF LIKE THIS) BUT MY TIRES ARE POPED BY NORMAL SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZE NAILS ON NORMAL STRAIGHT ROADS... IN MY OPTION THE TIRES ARE MADE OUT OF CHEAP RUBBER WHICH IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO WITHSAND THE NAIL OR OTHER SMALL SHARP OBJECTS.

DT: 2005, TOYOTA, SCION TC, VEHICLE'S SUN ROOF (NOT THE WIND DEFLECTOR) EXPLODED. THERE WAS NO APPARENT CAUSE FOR THIS TO HAPPEN. GLASS SHATTERED ALL OVER CONSUMER AND THE FREEWAY. CONSUMER STATED THAT NOTHING HIT THE SUNROOF FOR IT TO SHATTER, BUT IF EVEN A SMALL ITEM COULD CAUSE THAT EXPLOSIVE TYPE OF DAMAGE, IT SHOULD BE DIFFERENT GLASS. SUNROOF IS REPAIRED BUT CAR PAINT IS SCRATCHED EVERYWHERE AND CONSUMER STILL FIND BITS OF GLASS IN VEHICLE. THE SUNROOF WAS CLOSED AT THE TIME. PHONE INTERVIEW (MAY 19, 2006): DEALER REPRESENTATIVE CONFIRMED THAT IT WAS THE SUN/MOON ROOF THAT SHATTERED.

PAINT PEELING, CHIPPING, UNDERSURFACE "SCRATCHES" APPEARING IN THE PAINT. IT SEEMS TOYOTA HAS A BAD BATCH OF PAINT ON THIER SCION LINE OF VEHICLES, AS I SEE THAT THERE ARE MANY MORE COMPLAINTS OF PROBLEMS WITH DEFECTS IN THE PAINT.