Model years Toyota Highlander Hybrid
2017 Toyota Highlander Hybrid
Complaints about this year name out far more often than the model's other years — 23% of them, about 57× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 224 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 9 |
| Involving a crash | 16 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 28.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- awd — 6.7% of this year's complaints, against 0.8% across the model's other years (8.7×).
- city — 8.9% of this year's complaints, against 3.5% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: city, 2nd, put car.
- interstate — 7.6% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: interstate, followed.
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
- car — 46% of complaints, 3× usual
- drive — 17% of complaints, 42× usual
- just — 16% of complaints, 40× usual
What owners wrote
2017 WITH JUST UNDER 20K MILES. VEHICLE STALLED FROM STOP WHILE AT A A RED LIGHT. WOULD NOT RESTART. ONLY CLICKS FROM START BUTTON. MULTIPLE WARNING LIGHTS. HAD BEEN DRIVEN ON CITY STREETS 5 MILES OF 6 MILE COMMUTE. CAR ALSO REQUIRED JUMP START TWICE IN PAST W…
My 2017 Toyota Highlander just stop working all of sudden, I can’t start the engine at all it says in the dashboard boaster power low/ park in the side in safe place. I was trying to start the engine it since it’s 102 outside and I have my baby with me. I sear…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V520000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 17V295000 TIRES 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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