Toyota Highlander: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 51 recall campaigns for the Toyota Highlander, model years 1998 to 2025. NHTSA has 1,043 complaints on file for this model line. 24 of the 26 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.
- 19980
- 20013
- 20022
- 20032
- 20045
- 20056
- 20067
- 20074
- 200811
- 20099
- 201010
- 20115
- 20122
- 20133
- 20144
- 20151
- 20162
- 20173
- 20184
- 20193
- 20204
- 20214
- 20225
- 20239
- 20247
- 20254
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Toyota Highlander | 4 | 0 | 0% | 2,302,411 |
| 2024 Toyota Highlander | 7 | 0 | 0% | 2,345,891 |
| 2023 Toyota Highlander | 9 | 0 | 0% | 3,251,290 |
| 2022 Toyota Highlander | 5 | 0 | 0% | 1,447,676 |
| 2021 Toyota Highlander | 4 | 0 | 0% | 2,442,047 |
| 2020 Toyota Highlander | 4 | 0 | 0% | 1,792,627 |
| 2019 Toyota Highlander | 3 | 0 | 0% | 3,360,128 |
| 2018 Toyota Highlander | 4 | 0 | 0% | 3,363,189 |
| 2017 Toyota Highlander | 3 | 0 | 0% | 1,527,272 |
| 2016 Toyota Highlander | 2 | 0 | 0% | 11,309 |
| 2015 Toyota Highlander NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 110,085 |
| 2014 Toyota Highlander | 4 | 0 | 0% | 72,010 |
| 2013 Toyota Highlander | 3 | 0 | 0% | 57,517 |
| 2012 Toyota Highlander | 2 | 0 | 0% | 10,760 |
| 2011 Toyota Highlander | 5 | 0 | 0% | 1,836,026 |
| 2010 Toyota Highlander | 10 | 28 | 70% | 7,104,850 |
| 2009 Toyota Highlander | 9 | 24 | 60% | 4,893,744 |
| 2008 Toyota Highlander | 11 | 93 | 232% | 7,807,970 |
| 2007 Toyota Highlander | 4 | 44 | 110% | 435,817 |
| 2006 Toyota Highlander | 7 | 97 | 242% | 1,960,820 |
| 2005 Toyota Highlander | 6 | 119 | 297% | 2,565,009 |
| 2004 Toyota Highlander | 5 | 186 | 464% | 2,652,415 |
| 2003 Toyota Highlander | 2 | 127 | 317% | 366,748 |
| 2002 Toyota Highlander | 2 | 217 | 541% | 521,165 |
| 2001 Toyota Highlander | 3 | 107 | 267% | 562,334 |
| 1998 Toyota Highlander NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 2% |
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
1,219 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Vehicle Speed Control | 164.9 | 201 |
| Visibility | 146 | 178 |
| Power Train | 128.8 | 157 |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 91.9 | 112 |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 73.8 | 90 |
| Tires | 56.6 | 69 |
| Electrical System | 50.9 | 62 |
| Steering | 46.8 | 57 |
| Structure | 42.7 | 52 |
| Equipment | 26.3 | 32 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Camry59 campaigns
- Prius35 campaigns
- Corolla59 campaigns
- Sienna50 campaigns
- Tacoma56 campaigns
- Tundra74 campaigns
- RAV450 campaigns
- Avalon34 campaigns
- Sequoia26 campaigns
- 4 Runner0 campaigns
- 4Runner45 campaigns
- Matrix7 campaigns
- Camry Solara5 campaigns
- Celica9 campaigns
- Pickup1 campaign
- Tercel2 campaigns
- FJ Cruiser17 campaigns
- T1001 campaign
- Previa3 campaigns
- Highlander Hybrid26 campaigns
- Land Cruiser19 campaigns
- Echo5 campaigns
- Yaris23 campaigns
- Toyota0 campaigns
- Camry Hybrid20 campaigns
- Crown5 campaigns
- Venza11 campaigns
- Supra14 campaigns
- Sequoia SR50 campaigns
- Cressida4 campaigns
- Van3 campaigns
- Corolla Matrix17 campaigns
- HI Lux3 campaigns
- Tundra Hybrid15 campaigns
- Corona12 campaigns
- Avalon Hybrid10 campaigns
- RAV4 Hybrid12 campaigns
- Sienna Hybrid8 campaigns
- Prius V5 campaigns
- Sequoia Hybrid7 campaigns
- Prius Prime6 campaigns
- RAV4 Prime7 campaigns
- Corolla Cross Hybrid6 campaigns
- Grand Highlander7 campaigns
- BZ4X4 campaigns
- Grand Highlander Hybrid6 campaigns
- Prius Plug-In Hybrid4 campaigns
- RAV4 EV3 campaigns
- Venza Hybrid5 campaigns
- C-HR6 campaigns
- Corolla Hybrid4 campaigns
- Land Cruiser Hybrid4 campaigns
- Mirai4 campaigns
- Corolla Cross4 campaigns
- Tacoma Hybrid5 campaigns
- GR Corolla2 campaigns
- Prius C4 campaigns
- 863 campaigns
- Mark II2 campaigns
- Corolla Hatchback3 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Toyota Highlander: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/toyota/highlander/. 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
- 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 model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2008 with 11, 2010 with 10, 2023 with 9. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Toyota Highlander model year has the most complaints?
- The 2002 model year, with 217 of the 1,043 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Toyota Highlander name?
- Vehicle Speed Control: 164.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Visibility: 146 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 128.8 per 1,000 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Toyota Highlander?
- 5 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.