Model years Toyota Highlander Hybrid
2006 Toyota Highlander Hybrid
Complaints about this year name down far more often than the model's other years — 18% of them, about 45× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 646 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 9 |
| Involving a crash | 63 |
| Involving a fire | 11 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| EPA combined | 26.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- abs — 23.8% of this year's complaints, against 8.4% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: abs, vsc, vsc system, lights came.
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.
Also unusual this year
- inverter — 17% of complaints, 43× usual
- out — 16% of complaints, 39× usual
- about — 16% of complaints, 39× usual
What owners wrote
I AM ABOUT TO PURCHASE AN 06 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER 4X4 HYBRID. I RECEIVED INFORMATION THAT THE 06 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER HYBRID INVERTER HAS SERIOUS PROBLEMS, AND THAT THE COST TO FULLY REPAIR THIS PROBLEM IS HUGE. I WOULD LIKE TO PROTECT MYSELF FROM POTENTIAL PROBLEMS…
THE 2006 HIGHLANDER HYBRID WAS PARKED ON A STEEP HILL. TURNED ON THE IGNITION, PUT IT INTO REVERSE, AND WENT ABOUT ONE FOOT (UPHILL) WHEN IT MADE A LOUD "CLANK" SOUND AND STOPPED. "CHECK VSC", "CHECK HYBRID", AND "CHECK AWD" WARNING MESSAGES WERE THEN DISPLAYE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 11V539000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
- 11V112000 VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 11V342000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 13V396000 HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 06V253000 VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL Fixed free of charge.
- 09V223000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Highlander Hybrid 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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