Federal complaint record · Toyota Highlander · model year 2008

2008 Toyota Highlander

Owners submitted 403 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 71th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2006 to 2010 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is brakes. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Brakes · 17% · group n = 83Engine · 15% · group n = 76Airbags · 12% · group n = 58Speed control · 9% · group n = 45Electrical · 9% · group n = 43
403
Complaint records on file
77,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 311 complaints reported mileage
17%
Of classified component reports name brakes · group n = 83
71th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 36 model years

Brakes · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Brakes17%

Brakes reports

Toyota Highlander · model year 2008

Reports in this group83
Share of classified reports17%
Component groups on file6
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The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Brake performance · 103 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 32008 Toyota Highlander
Airbag concerns · 46 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 2 of 32008 Toyota Highlander
Steering effort · 30 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 3 of 32008 Toyota Highlander

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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