Federal complaint record · Toyota RAV4 · model year 2010

2010 Toyota RAV4

Owners submitted 400 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 61th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2008 to 2012 compact suv cohort. The largest reported component group is suspension. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Suspension · 21% · group n = 102Speed control · 17% · group n = 83Other · 8% · group n = 40Powertrain · 8% · group n = 38Brakes · 7% · group n = 34
400
Complaint records on file
34,163
Median mileage at the reported problem · 278 complaints reported mileage
21%
Of classified component reports name suspension · group n = 102
61th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Suspension · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Suspension21%

Suspension reports

Toyota RAV4 · model year 2010

Reports in this group102
Share of classified reports21%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2009
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
327 matched incidents
This car
2010
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
400 matched incidents
2011
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
287 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
Brake performance · 93 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 32010 Toyota RAV4
Stalling or shutdown · 25 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 2 of 32010 Toyota RAV4
Airbag concerns · 18 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 3 of 32010 Toyota RAV4

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

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