2023 Toyota RAV4
This year drew an ordinary 147 complaints for a Toyota RAV4 — the model's median is 302. What they were about is the unusual part: 10.2% of them mention pulled, against 3.1% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the Toyota RAV4, which began in 2019. 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 | 147 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 302 |
| Involving a crash | 18 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 30 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- pulled — 10.2% of this year's complaints, against 3.1% across the other years of this generation (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: pulled, car showed.
- spot — 10.2% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the other years of this generation (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: spot, pulling, blind, blind spot.
- camera — 6.8% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation (5.3×). Owners wrote it as: camera, backup.
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
Rearview camera quit for 3-4 seconds when I was backup. There was a car in my blind spot, aft right quarter, that I couldn't see and I hit his left front panel/headlight causing $2200. damage to his car plus my car.
while driving at an undisclosed speed, the passenger’s side blind spot warning system located on the exterior side mirror failed to function as intended. The light flashed on the side mirror; however, the beeping sound was inaudible. No warning lights were ill…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V485000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 25V595000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 25V744000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
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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