Federal complaint record · Toyota RAV4 · model year 2006

2006 Toyota RAV4

Owners submitted 704 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 83th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2004 to 2008 compact suv cohort. The largest reported component group is steering. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Steering · 26% · group n = 232Engine · 17% · group n = 151Speed control · 9% · group n = 75Suspension · 8% · group n = 72Airbags · 7% · group n = 58
704
Complaint records on file
55,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 539 complaints reported mileage
26%
Of classified component reports name steering · group n = 232
83th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 33 model years

Steering · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Steering26%

Steering reports

Toyota RAV4 · model year 2006

Reports in this group232
Share of classified reports26%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2005
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
141 matched incidents
This car
2006
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
704 matched incidents
2007
0.4complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,003 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
Steering effort · 190 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 1 of 32006 Toyota RAV4
Engine damage · 69 reports

Reports describe engine damage or oil consumption

Cluster 2 of 32006 Toyota RAV4
Brake performance · 57 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 3 of 32006 Toyota RAV4

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

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