2025 Toyota RAV4
This year drew an ordinary 76 complaints for a Toyota RAV4 — the model's median is 302. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.2% of them mention traveling, against 2.7% 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 | 76 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 302 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 29.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- traveling — 9.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the other years of this generation (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: traveling, sidewall, interstate.
- camera — 9.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the other years of this generation (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: camera, mirror, front camera.
- line — 6.6% of this year's complaints, against 1.2% across the other years of this generation (5.4×).
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
Sidewall randomly cracked while traveling late at night on sparsely populated interstate. No debris on road or potholes encountered to explain why this occurred.
Traveling on interstate, 60 mph. All of a sudden, I heard a loud noise followed by a thump. Managed to get off the exit and pulled over onto the shoulder. Noticed the sidewall had separated from the tread of the tire. 5343 miles on vehicle. Original equipment…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 25V595000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 25V744000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 26V256000 SEATS 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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