2009 Toyota RAV4
This year drew 327 complaints against a median of 287 across the Toyota RAV4's other years, 1.1× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 15 recalls, listed below.
Generation 1 of the Toyota RAV4, which began in 2006 and ran to 2012. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 327 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 287 |
| Involving a crash | 52 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 15 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 16V096000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V596000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 14V743000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V396000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V577000 VISIBILITY/WIPER
- 15V689000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 13V014000 AIR BAGS
- 12V373000 SUSPENSION
Showing 8 of 15. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota RAV4 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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