Recall Register

Toyota RAV4 Hybrid: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 12 recall campaigns for the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, model years 2016 to 2026. NHTSA has 144 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 11 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. 20160
  2. 20171
  3. 20180
  4. 20193
  5. 20205
  6. 20211
  7. 20222
  8. 20231
  9. 20242
  10. 20252
  11. 20261
Toyota RAV4 Hybrid: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid NHTSA page122168%135
2025 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid2538%1,032,637
2024 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid218%1,032,637
2023 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid NHTSA page1861%1,024,407
2022 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid2538%461,643
2021 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid NHTSA page122168%999,901
2020 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid51399%1,053,801
2019 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid322168%60,618
2018 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid NHTSA page015115%
2017 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid NHTSA page114107%409
2016 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid NHTSA page017130%

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

190 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 RAV4 Hybrid: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags142.127
Unknown or Other126.324
Electrical System89.517
Structure78.915
Fuel/Propulsion System78.915
Service Brakes68.413
Forward Collision Avoidance63.212
Visibility/Wiper47.49
Visibility42.18
Engine36.87

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2020, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2026, with 32 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Toyota: all 65 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Toyota RAV4 Hybrid: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/toyota/rav4-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
Gulf States Toyota, 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 RAV4 Hybrid model years have the most recall campaigns?
2020 with 5, 2019 with 3, 2025 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Toyota RAV4 Hybrid model year has the most complaints?
The 2019 model year, with 22 of the 144 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid name?
Air Bags: 142.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 126.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 89.5 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.