Federal complaint record · Toyota RAV4 · model year 2020

2020 Toyota RAV4

Owners submitted 626 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 84th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2018 to 2022 compact suv cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 24% · group n = 194Other · 15% · group n = 120Electrical · 15% · group n = 119Fuel system · 11% · group n = 89Structure · 7% · group n = 59
626
Complaint records on file
2,800
Median mileage at the reported problem · 195 complaints reported mileage
24%
Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 194
84th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Engine · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Engine24%

Engine reports

Toyota RAV4 · model year 2020

Reports in this group194
Share of classified reports24%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2019
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
869 matched incidents
This car
2020
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
626 matched incidents
2021
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
376 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
Electrical faults · 67 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 1 of 32020 Toyota RAV4
Brake performance · 37 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32020 Toyota RAV4
Airbag concerns · 36 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 3 of 32020 Toyota RAV4

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

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