2023 TOYOTA RAV4 Complaints

Firestone Destination LE 2. 225/65R17. Tire has exploded on highway. This is a brand new car purchased 3 weeks ago and has 1584 mile on it. Tire run only about 1575 mile. When inflated the tire again, it had multiple bubbles, ball shaped swellings.

As I was entering a covered parking structure, I came to a complete stop at the entrance of the gate to obtain my parking ticket. I was driving very slow less than 5 mph, and engaged the brakes as to stop to get my parking ticket before entering the parking garage. I have my foot on the brake pedal, I am at a complete stop of 0mph for several seconds now, and suddenly the engine revved and my car lunged forward a bit. I had not lifted my foot from the brake pedal, and yet the engine revved and my car lunged forwards. My passenger at the time yelled, WHOAA why are you pressing on the gas!!? So my passenger in the car at the time was also startled by this incident and felt the car surge forward. He thought that I had pressed on the gas pedal. If someone was to be in front of my vehicle they would have potentially been hit with my car, or if I had been closer to the parking entrance gate my car could have hit the gate. I am highly concerned this just occurred as this could cause a great accident or injury. I have 1,100 miles on the car. It was purchased brand new. Another issue I have been experiencing is when I engage the gas pedal, it does not accelerate and takes a few seconds to accelerate causing my forward momentum to stall out, this is an issue when I have been trying to merge into traffic and my car does not drive as I have anticipated. I am not sure if this is an issue with it being in "ECO" mode or not, but there is a stalled acceleration issue, that happens sometimes, but not always and I cannot pin point why it is happening at certain moments.

In short: My car only fills up to less than 10.5 gallons on an empty tank of gas when the fuel capacity of the tank is 14.5. Toyota is aware of this issue on their RAV4 hybrids and they're not doing anything to fix this consumer issue. This is dangerous for many reasons.

At approximately 11:30 AM on Saturday, August 5, 2023 I was traveling northbound on I-17 just before exit number 278 for State Route 179. I felt the vehicle shake violently and my wife saw a portion of a tire rolling along the side of the road into the desert. I was able to safely pull off to the shoulder, it was then that I noticed the driver side rear tire had completely separated from the rim. There were no warnings I had recently had my 5000 mile inspection/oil change performed at Right Toyota. At the time of the incident there was approximately 5355 miles on the vehicle which was purchased new in January 2023. I was luckily able to bring the vehicle to a complete stop without incident and notified Roadside Assistance.

Driver was parking the car in a parking lot at a very slow speed. The car suddenly shot forward at a very high rate of speed, requiring evasive steering from trees and a fence, until the car crashed head-on into another vehicle. The driver is very certain the brakes only were applied during the entire time the car shot forward. Airbags were not deployed. Bystanders were within six feet of the car at one point during the acceleration, prior to the crash. There were no injuries. Earlier, on the day of the crash, the car had a sudden, strong, yet brief acceleration of the vehicle during normal braking while approaching a rotary, unlike normal ABS. ABS itself seemed unneeded (the approach to the rotary was well within the speed limit, on dry condition roads). This issue occurred twice in the two months prior to the accident. There were no known warning messages in the car or the phone app for the car in any of these cases or at the time of the crash. The manufacturer has been notified of the crash, a product liability case has been opened, and an engineer was sent to look at the car. A data download from the airbag event data recorder (Bosch CDR) was done, a report was generated, and the report was provided to the car owner. No data in the formatted report is provided regarding Vehicle Speed, Accelerator Pedal, Cruise Control Status, Brake Torque, etc. Unformatted hexadecimal data is included in the report, without a data schema to decipher the data. It is not known if any other analysis or information about the car was reported by the engineer, beyond the Bosch CDR report. The owner is not aware that the problem has been reproduced or confirmed by anyone involved, or of any other inspections than the one described here. Manufacturer has not yet provided the owner with a report response. The car is currently at an auto repair shop and no repairs have begun. The shop is awaiting an appraisal by the insurance company before doing the repairs.

Driver side and passenger side mirror, as well as rearview mirror vibrate. Driver, side mirror, and rearview mirror are the worst with the passenger rear view mirror better than the other two. Brought into Toyota of Dothan couple of times, and they say it’s normal. This is not normal. It is a safety hazard. It started on day one that I own the car, which was July 3, 2023. There is known problems with previous models, as well as with the Lexus NX and RX models, which is based off of Toyota. This needs to be addressed and fixed. There were previous announcements made for 2019 year I believe of the RAV4, but there still is a problem with the 2023 models.

The contact owns a 2023 Toyota Rav4 Hybrid. The contact stated while driving approximately 45 MPH, the contact depressed the brake pedal with force due to a traffic slow down, and the vehicle stalled while depressing the brake pedal. The contact was coasting and placed the vehicle in neutral(N) and attempted to restart the vehicle and the vehicle failed to start. The contact coasted to the center turn lane and stopped the vehicle, shifted into park(P), and restarted the vehicle. The contact was unaware if there were any warning lights illuminated. The contact drove the vehicle to a local dealer however, the dealer was unable to duplicate the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact stated that the failure was intermittent. The manufacturer had not been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 38,000.

Have had the vehicle three weeks and only drive on paved roadways. Visible chip cracked instantly during drive. Windshield seems weaker than our 2 4Runners and VW. I’ve never seen a crack instantly occur without a large rock or hail.

When the AC is turned on, the AC is not blowing cold AC air. Have turned on the AC to the lowest temperature setting, turned the fan to high, activated the circulation button and it’s only blowing room temperature/warm air. Have tried different combinations of the settings and the AC quality is still only blowing room temperature/warm air. Have driven car to hotter temperature areas and the AC, at this point, is blowing warm/hot air.

When using an Apple iPhone 12 connected to the vehicle's head unit with CarPlay, and when using any navigation application (Apple Maps, Waze, Google Maps), the car's GPS position on the map randomly becomes extremely inaccurate. The car's map cursor suddenly jumps to a different road than the one the vehicle is on, heads in the wrong direction, or circles wildly. If using the GPS application for directions, the directions suddenly become incorrect. The issue never occurs when the iPhone is not connected to the vehicle's CarPlay display. This is a safety issue because it is extremely distracting or dangerous if the driver is using the GPS application for navigation and is directed to the wrong road or becomes lost in an unknown area due to failure of the navigation application on CarPlay.