Recall Register

Toyota RAV4: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 50 recall campaigns for the Toyota RAV4, model years 1994 to 2025. NHTSA has 1,849 complaints on file for this model line. 28 of the 31 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. 19960
  3. 19970
  4. 19984
  5. 19994
  6. 20003
  7. 20010
  8. 20020
  9. 20030
  10. 20042
  11. 20055
  12. 200611
  13. 200714
  14. 200814
  15. 200915
  16. 201014
  17. 201111
  18. 20125
  19. 20132
  20. 20144
  21. 20154
  22. 20163
  23. 20173
  24. 20183
  25. 20197
  26. 20206
  27. 20211
  28. 20221
  29. 20233
  30. 20243
  31. 20253
Toyota RAV4: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2025 Toyota RAV4300%1,615,788
2024 Toyota RAV4300%1,615,854
2023 Toyota RAV4300%1,615,979
2022 Toyota RAV4 NHTSA page100%3,533
2021 Toyota RAV4 NHTSA page100%999,901
2020 Toyota RAV4600%2,579,543
2019 Toyota RAV4700%1,598,655
2018 Toyota RAV4300%1,855,542
2017 Toyota RAV4300%1,855,302
2016 Toyota RAV4300%1,870,318
2015 Toyota RAV4400%1,968,751
2014 Toyota RAV4400%1,968,751
2013 Toyota RAV4200%1,854,708
2012 Toyota RAV4500%1,819,082
2011 Toyota RAV41100%5,282,278
2010 Toyota RAV41474124%9,300,591
2009 Toyota RAV415105176%11,839,570
2008 Toyota RAV414106178%10,976,479
2007 Toyota RAV414215360%10,976,479
2006 Toyota RAV411261438%8,145,974
2005 Toyota RAV453559%1,512,888
2004 Toyota RAV424677%1,087,920
2003 Toyota RAV40176295%
2002 Toyota RAV40391656%
2001 Toyota RAV40219367%
2000 Toyota RAV432135%140,378
1999 Toyota RAV444677%142,338
1998 Toyota RAV4464107%142,338
1997 Toyota RAV404575%
1996 Toyota RAV404372%
1994 Toyota RAV4 NHTSA page023%

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

2,190 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: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train297.3651
Vehicle Speed Control173.1379
Steering85.4187
Engine and Engine Cooling81.7179
Electrical System79173
Service Brakes, Hydraulic56.2123
Air Bags42.994
Visibility23.752
Structure20.144
Fuel System, Gasoline19.643

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Toyota RAV4, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2020, with 6 campaigns.
Complaints about the Toyota RAV4, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 817 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Toyota: all 64 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Toyota RAV4: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/toyota/rav4/. 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 Engineering & Manufacturing

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 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2009 with 15, 2010 with 14, 2008 with 14. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Toyota RAV4 model year has the most complaints?
The 2002 model year, with 391 of the 1,849 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Toyota RAV4 name?
Power Train: 297.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 173.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Steering: 85.4 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Toyota RAV4?
7 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.