Toyota RAV4 2015

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.29 per 1,000

0.6 times this nameplate’s own median · from 86 complaints filed in the first three years, of 305 ever. 95% lower bound 0.23.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.82	112
2009	0.94	135
2010	0.86	137
2011	0.40	61
2012	0.51	78
2013	0.49	96
2014	0.15	37
2015	0.29	86
2016	0.32	107
2017	0.29	111
2018	0.29	122
2019	1.00	437
2020	0.56	248
2021	0.46	194
2022	0.22	88
2023	0.33	138

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Electrical System 85 complaints

confirms parts	19	22%
tool confirms	19	22%
confirms	19	22%
tool	19	22%
part recall	19	22%
yet exceeded	14	17%

Unknown Or Other 60 complaints

exploded

17%

When it breaks

44% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 35,000 miles, from 170 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

1 investigation covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign.

Battery Hold Down Bracket Thermal Events

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10668994 · 10681501 · 10705169 · 10705773 · 10716496 · 10716667

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is verified against a published figure.