Federal complaint record · Toyota RAV4 · model year 2005

2005 Toyota RAV4

Owners submitted 141 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 29th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2003 to 2007 compact suv cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 35% · group n = 59Engine · 9% · group n = 15Speed control · 8% · group n = 13Brakes · 7% · group n = 11Other · 7% · group n = 11
141
Complaint records on file
79,825
Median mileage at the reported problem · 84 complaints reported mileage
35%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 59
29th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 29 model years

Airbags · 4 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags35%

Airbags reports

Toyota RAV4 · model year 2005

Reports in this group59
Share of classified reports35%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2004
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
153 matched incidents
This car
2005
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
141 matched incidents
2006
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
704 matched incidents

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
Airbag concerns · 53 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32005 Toyota RAV4
Brake performance · 15 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32005 Toyota RAV4
Steering effort · 8 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 3 of 32005 Toyota RAV4

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

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