Recall Register

Toyota Previa: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the Toyota Previa, model years 1987 to 2001. NHTSA has 224 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 10 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. 19870
  2. 19912
  3. 19920
  4. 19930
  5. 19940
  6. 19950
  7. 19960
  8. 19971
  9. 19980
  10. 20010
Toyota Previa: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2001 Toyota Previa NHTSA page0313%
1998 Toyota Previa NHTSA page014%
1997 Toyota Previa NHTSA page1940%707
1996 Toyota Previa NHTSA page01149%
1995 Toyota Previa030134%
1994 Toyota Previa NHTSA page01985%
1993 Toyota Previa041183%
1992 Toyota Previa035156%
1991 Toyota Previa274330%231,672
1987 Toyota Previa NHTSA page014%

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

280 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 Previa: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic12535
Visibility107.130
Engine and Engine Cooling96.427
Air Bags7521
Tires67.919
Seat Belts60.717
Equipment60.717
Structure60.717
Vehicle Speed Control57.116
Power Train46.413

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Toyota Previa, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1993, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Toyota Previa, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 30 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Toyota: all 65 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Toyota Previa: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/toyota/previa/. 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 CO., LTD.

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 Previa model years have the most recall campaigns?
1991 with 2, 1997 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Toyota Previa model year has the most complaints?
The 1991 model year, with 74 of the 224 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Toyota Previa name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 125 per 1,000 component mentions. Visibility: 107.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 96.4 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Toyota Previa?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.