Recall Register

Toyota Highlander Hybrid: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 26 recall campaigns for the Toyota Highlander Hybrid, model years 2004 to 2025. NHTSA has 824 complaints on file for this model line. 12 of the 22 model years have a page on this register.

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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. 20041
  2. 20051
  3. 20066
  4. 20072
  5. 20086
  6. 20094
  7. 20104
  8. 20111
  9. 20120
  10. 20130
  11. 20141
  12. 20150
  13. 20160
  14. 20172
  15. 20180
  16. 20190
  17. 20204
  18. 20214
  19. 20224
  20. 20236
  21. 20244
  22. 20253
Toyota Highlander Hybrid: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2025 Toyota Highlander Hybrid300%1,711,034
2024 Toyota Highlander Hybrid400%1,744,882
2023 Toyota Highlander Hybrid6924%2,650,281
2022 Toyota Highlander Hybrid4616%1,896,154
2021 Toyota Highlander Hybrid41540%2,895,394
2020 Toyota Highlander Hybrid4924%2,211,927
2019 Toyota Highlander Hybrid NHTSA page0616%
2018 Toyota Highlander Hybrid NHTSA page0513%
2017 Toyota Highlander Hybrid238%1,530
2016 Toyota Highlander Hybrid NHTSA page0616%
2015 Toyota Highlander Hybrid NHTSA page0411%
2014 Toyota Highlander Hybrid NHTSA page125%48,840
2013 Toyota Highlander Hybrid NHTSA page0513%
2012 Toyota Highlander Hybrid NHTSA page0924%
2011 Toyota Highlander Hybrid NHTSA page1513%1,814,284
2010 Toyota Highlander Hybrid42259%1,958,125
2009 Toyota Highlander Hybrid440107%1,977,680
2008 Toyota Highlander Hybrid6197526%4,891,906
2007 Toyota Highlander Hybrid2110294%215,354
2006 Toyota Highlander Hybrid6370988%1,799,733
2005 Toyota Highlander Hybrid NHTSA page113%769,379
2004 Toyota Highlander Hybrid NHTSA page100%769,379

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

1,104 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 Highlander Hybrid: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes208.3230
Electrical System136.8151
Service Brakes, Hydraulic71.679
Vehicle Speed Control67.975
Hybrid Propulsion System67.975
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)5864
Engine52.558
Steering37.141
Service Brakes, Electric35.339
Power Train34.438

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Toyota Highlander Hybrid, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2011, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Toyota Highlander Hybrid, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 165 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Toyota: all 65 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Toyota Highlander Hybrid: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/toyota/highlander-hybrid/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.

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 Highlander Hybrid model years have the most recall campaigns?
2023 with 6, 2008 with 6, 2006 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Toyota Highlander Hybrid model year has the most complaints?
The 2006 model year, with 370 of the 824 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Toyota Highlander Hybrid name?
Service Brakes: 208.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 136.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 71.6 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Toyota Highlander Hybrid?
7 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.