Safety Score
70
Average
Recalls
0
Complaints
50
NCAP Stars
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Recalls (0)
No recalls found for the 2001 Toyota Rav4.
Owner Complaints (showing up to 50)
| Date | Component | Crash | Injuries | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-29 | AIR BAGS | No | 0 | My Rav4 is 23 years old and has 76K miles on it. Does it have Takata airbags? If so, I want them replaced. I plan on… |
| 2023-08-05 | FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM | No | 0 | 2001 Toyota Rav4 was sold at Auction, to a used car dealership. I purchased this car from the used car dealer on Augus… |
| 2021-03-03 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | MY2001RAV4 WITH 125000 STARTED JUMPING INTO GEAR ALSO THE RPM REVS UP BUT VECHICLE LOSSES POWER VERY DANGEROUS ON HIGH… |
| 2019-12-06 | SUSPENSION | No | 0 | THE STRAPS THAT HOLD THE GAS TANK UP ROTTED OUT AND OFF. |
| 2019-02-21 | ENGINE | Yes | 1 | MY 2001 SILVER TOYOTA RAV 4 HAD A SUDDEN UNINTENDED ACCELERATION PROBLEM WHEN I WAS DECELERATING TO A COMPLETE STOP AT … |
| 2019-02-21 | STRUCTURE:BODY | Yes | 1 | MY 2001 RAV 4 REAR ENDED A CAR IN FRONT OF ME, AND IT WAS DUE TO A MAJOR UNINTENDED ACCELERATION OF THE ENGINE. I AM A… |
| 2018-02-01 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | MY RAV 4 2001 HAS ABOUT 140,000 MILES ON IT AND HAS DEVELOPED A SERIOUS PROBLEM. TO CLARIFY, A MASSIVE ACCELERATION PRO… |
| 2017-11-21 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | THE RAV4 WOULD NOT SHIFT. THE TRANSMISSION NEEDED TO BE REPLACED |
| 2017-08-01 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | No | 0 | ECM UNIT WENT BAD CAUSING DAMAGE TO MY TRANSMISSION |
| 2017-06-21 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | THE ECM ON MY 2001 RAV4 WAS CALIBRATED IN 2008 BY A LOCAL DEALER. UNDER RECALL 601. IN 2008 THE CAR HAD JUST OVER 6300… |
| 2017-06-03 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | No | 0 | DRIVING CAR AND IT STARTED JERKING AND THEN THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT WENT ON TESTER SHOWED IT WAS RELATED TO ECM AND TRAN… |
| 2017-04-14 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | THE CAR STARTED TO HAVE SHIFTING PROBLEMS. |
| 2017-04-03 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION IS SHIFTING IRRATICALLY, SOMETIMES IT WILL TAKE OFF SLOWLY UNTIL THE GEAR ENGAGES. SOMETIMES… |
| 2017-04-03 | ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC) | No | 0 | MY WIFE WAS DRIVING CAR AND IT STARTED DOING STRANGE CHANGES WITH THE TRANSMISSION, SUCH AS SLIPPING BETWEEN GEAR CH… |
| 2016-11-03 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | MY 2001 TOYOTA RAV4 HAS 63192 MILES ON IT. IT BEGAN EXHIBITING TRANSMISSION/ACCELERATION PROBLEMS YESTERDAY WHILE DRI… |
| 2016-08-11 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | No | 0 | AQUIRED MY 2001 TOYOTA RAV4 ABOUT 4 YEARS AGO. AND NOW I AM HAVING THE SAME ISSUES WITH THE ECM AS THE OTHERS. IN FACT … |
| 2016-05-08 | AIR BAGS | No | 0 | TAKATA RECALL I DRIVE MY 2001 RAV4 THAT I INHERITED FROM MY MOTHER. THE CAR IS 15 YEARS OLD BUT ONLY HAS 56,000 MILES… |
| 2016-04-06 | AIR BAGS | No | 0 | TAKATA RECALL I AM THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF. 2001 TOYOTA RAV4 . I HAVE LIVED IN THE STATE OF HAWAII FOR THE LAST 9 YEARS.… |
| 2016-01-07 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | WHEN I CHANGE GEAR OR PRESS ACCELERATOR TO GIVE GAS, MY CAR DOESN'T PICK UP RACE AND DOESN'T SHIFT THE GEAR. IT WILL DO… |
| 2015-06-05 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING HARSH SHIFTING FOR THE LAST WEEK OR SO BUT THE MOST DEBILITATING TRANSMISSION PROBLEM OCCURRED O… |
| 2015-05-26 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | VEHICLE SHIFTS VERY HARSHLY AND JERKS. I SUSPECT IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE TRANSMISSION AND THE ELECTRONIC CONTRO… |
| 2015-05-12 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | HARSH SHIFT BETWEEN 2 AND 3, PROBABLY DUE TO ECM FAILING |
| 2015-05-06 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2001 TOYOTA RAV4. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 40 MPH, THE VEHICLE FAILED TO SHIFT GEARS WITHOUT … |
| 2015-02-11 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | I BOUGHT A TOYOTA RAV4 TWO WEEKS AGO, AND SAW THERE WAS A RECALL ON THE ENGINE CONTROL MODULE, BUT ASSUMED THAT TOYOTA … |
| 2014-12-11 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | I PURCHASED MY 2001 TOYOTA RAV4 IN JULY 2012,. NOW 2 YEARS LATER AND STILL OWE A GOOD AMOUNT ON MY CAR I AM HAVING TH… |
| 2014-09-28 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | WE WERE ALMOST HIT AT A STREET LIGHT. UPON ACCELERATING OUR CAR THE ENGINE DIED DUE THE TRANSMISSION OR MALFUNCTION OF … |
| 2014-09-09 | ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC) | No | 0 | I WAS DRIVING ALONG AND CAME TO A STOP. WHEN I STARTED TO GO, MY RAV HAD NO POWER, THEN IT LURCHED AND ALMOST STOPPED.… |
| 2014-08-04 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | RECENTLY THE CHECK ENGINE DASHBOARD LIGHT ON OUR 2001 TOYOTA RAV4 CAME ON. I TOOK THE VEHICLE TO AN AUTO PARTS STORE TH… |
| 2014-08-01 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | ECM WAS REPLACED IN 2007. NO PROBLEMS AT THAT TIME. IN MAY 2014 BRAKES PLUS MISDIAGNOSED PROBLEM AND FIXED ALMOST EVERY… |
| 2014-07-17 | SERVICE BRAKES | No | 0 | VEHICLE ACCELERATED BY ITSELF WHILE DRIVING AT 45MPH. I HAD TO USE BOTH BRAKES TO STOP THE CAR AND EXPERIENCED A HARS… |
| 2014-07-14 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | SUDDEN ISSUE OF ERRATIC SHIFTING AND ACCELERATION. THE ECM WAS REPLACED. HOPEFULLY THE TRANSMISSION HAS BEEN SPARED. … |
| 2014-05-05 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | MY 2001 TOYOTA RAV4 HAD THE SAME PROBLEM THAT WAS COVERED IN TOYOTA'S EXTENDED WARRANTY AND RECALL FOR THIS MAKE AND MO… |
| 2014-02-15 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2001 TOYOTA RAV4. THE CONTACT STATED WHILE DRIVING VARIOUS SPEEDS ON AN ICY AND SNOW COVERED ROA… |
| 2014-01-20 | ENGINE | No | 0 | WHILE IN CRUISE CONTROL ON AN INCLINE MY RAV4 ACCELERATES OUT OF CONTROL SO I HAVE TO APPLY THE BRAKE TO GET IT OUT OF … |
| 2014-01-20 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | CAR HAD NO SPARK WHEN CRANKING, MY MECHANIC CHECKED AND TRACED THE PROBLEM TO THE CAR'S MAIN ENGINE AND TRANSMISSION CO… |
| 2014-01-02 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | TRAVELING AT 30 MPH OR LESS THE VEHICLE WILL STUMBLE. THIS IS A ROAD HAZARD AS TRAVELING THROUGH AN INTERSECTION THE VE… |
| 2013-09-27 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | JUST PURCHASED THIS VEHICLE IN SEPTEMBER OF 2013 WITH ONLY 95,000 MILES. TWO DAYS AFTER PURCHASE, THE CHECK ENGINE LIGH… |
| 2013-09-23 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | WAS ENTERING A LIMITED ACCESS HIGHWAY AND WANTED TO MERGE ONTO HIGHWAY. WHEN I PRESSED DOWN ON GAS PEDAL TO SPEED UP, … |
| 2013-09-03 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | I AM NEWLY EMPLOYED WITH THE POST OFFICE SO I NEED MY CAR. I WAS OUT DRIVING MY ROUTE WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT WAS LAGG… |
| 2013-07-29 | ENGINE | No | 0 | ECM/TRANSMISSION FAILURE...CALLED TOYOTA..REFUSED HELP..OWNED VEHICLE OVER 10 YEARS...KNOWN DEFECT THAT TOYOTA HAS NOT … |
| 2013-07-19 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | ECM/TRANSMISSION FAILURE AT 129000 MILES. CANT SAY MUCH MORE THAN HAS ALREADY BEEN SAID BY SO MANY OTHERS. OUT OF POCKE… |
| 2013-05-29 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | I HAVE A 2001 RAV4 THAT IN 2010 HAD A PROBLEM WITH THE GEAR AND THE DEALER CHANGE THE REMAN TRANSAXLE ASSEMBLY BUT KNOW… |
| 2013-05-06 | SEAT BELTS | No | 0 | SEAT BELT NO LONGER SNAPS IN ON BOTH PASSENGER AND DRIVERS SIDE, ADDITIONALLY THE BELT FREYED WITHOUT ONLY NORMAL WEAR.… |
| 2013-02-20 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2001 TOYOTA RAV4. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE SHIFTED VERY HARD AND JERKED. THE CONTACT … |
| 2012-12-20 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | No | 0 | DEFECTIVE ECM CAUSING THE TRANSMISSION TO SHIFT HARSHLY. MY CAR IS IN THE SHOP RIGHT NOW GETTING FIXED BECAUSE OF THIS… |
| 2012-12-06 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | HARSH VEHICLE JERKING WITH BAD AUTOMATIC SHIFTING/ACCELERATION. USED EMERGENCY LIGHTS AND NARROWLY AVOIDED ACCIDENT WIT… |
| 2012-10-13 | VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS | No | 0 | ON 10/13/2012 WE PURCHASED THIS VEHICLE. WE HEADED SOUTH ON A BUSY FREEWAY AND HAD THE DRIVER'S SIDE WINDOW DOWN AS WE … |
| 2012-10-08 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | OCTOBER 11, 2012. ON OR ABOUT OCTOBER 8 2012 I BEGAN HAVING HESITATION AND JUMPING INTO GEAR AS I AM DRIVING MY 2001 … |
| 2012-08-13 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2001 TOYOTA RAV4. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE TRANSMISSION WAS EXHIBITING BEHAVIORS OF A MANUAL … |
| 2012-06-01 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | APPARENTLY THERE WAS A TSB ISSUED ON THIS AND A CUSTOMER CARE TICKET ISSUED AND A RECALL BUT BEING AS MY CAR IS 11 YEAR… |