Recall Register

Toyota 4 Runner: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the Toyota 4 Runner, model years 1994 to 2005. NHTSA has 1,034 complaints on file for this model line. 11 of the 12 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19940
  2. 19950
  3. 19960
  4. 19970
  5. 19980
  6. 19990
  7. 20000
  8. 20010
  9. 20020
  10. 20030
  11. 20040
  12. 20050
Toyota 4 Runner: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2005 Toyota 4 Runner NHTSA page01517%
2004 Toyota 4 Runner06677%
2003 Toyota 4 Runner0168195%
2002 Toyota 4 Runner03237%
2001 Toyota 4 Runner03136%
2000 Toyota 4 Runner0104121%
1999 Toyota 4 Runner0110128%
1998 Toyota 4 Runner0120139%
1997 Toyota 4 Runner0122142%
1996 Toyota 4 Runner089103%
1995 Toyota 4 Runner0125145%
1994 Toyota 4 Runner05260%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

1,234 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Toyota 4 Runner: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling235290
Tires112.6139
Service Brakes, Hydraulic111.8138
Suspension81100
Power Train78.697
Air Bags40.550
Electrical System33.241
Visibility32.440
Structure30.838
Steering30.838

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Toyota 4 Runner, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Toyota 4 Runner, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 189 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Toyota: all 64 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Toyota 4 Runner: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/toyota/4-runner/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Toyota 4 Runner model years have the most recall campaigns?
No model year of this line has a recall campaign in the NHTSA file.
Which Toyota 4 Runner model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 168 of the 1,034 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Toyota 4 Runner name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 235 per 1,000 component mentions. Tires: 112.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 111.8 per 1,000 component mentions.