2010 Toyota FJ Cruiser
This year drew an ordinary 65 complaints for a Toyota FJ Cruiser — the model's median is 30. What they were about is the unusual part: 27.7% of them mention wheel, against 4.4% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 65 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 30 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 12 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- wheel — 27.7% of this year's complaints, against 4.4% across the model's other years (6.3×).
- owner — 15.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.6% across the model's other years (9.5×). Owners wrote it as: owner, further, indicated, associated.
- center — 9.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: center, factory.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
THE FRONT END ALIGNMENT WAS NOT ADEQUATE BECAUSE THE TIRES WEIGHED SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN WHAT WAS INDICATED IN THE OWNER'S MANUAL. THE CONTACT ALSO STATED THAT THE [VIN] INSTALLED THE INCORRECT SIZED TIRES ON THE VEHICLE. NEITHER THE DEALER NOR THE [VIN] OFF…
THE CONTACT INDICATED THAT ALL FOUR TIRES EXPERIENCED SIDEWALL RUBBER SEPARATION AND CRACKED. THE FAILURE CAUSED THE TIRES TO DEFLATE APPROXIMATELY 1 TO 2 LBS PER WEEK. WALMART INSPECTED THE TIRES AND DID NOT IDENTIFY A DEFECT. THE [VIN] WAS ALSO NOTIFIED AND…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V743000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V396000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V475000 EQUIPMENT
- 11V148000 TIRES
- 13V163000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 13V098000 SEAT BELTS
- 13V014000 AIR BAGS
- 12E046000 EQUIPMENT
Showing 8 of 12. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota FJ Cruiser was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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