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Steering · 1 owner report

Other steering problem on the 2023 Toyota 4RUNNER

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 77 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $350–$2,400
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 18th

When other steering problem gets reported

There are 1 report of other steering problem on the 2023 Toyota 4RUNNER. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 18th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $350–$2,400 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 17 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2021, at a median of 400 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 195,000 miles.

By volume the 2003 carries the most reports, with 18; the 2023 has 0. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 1996 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 138k
  2. 1997 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 147k
  3. 1998 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 111k
  4. 1999 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 174k
  5. 2000 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 193k
  6. 2001 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 128k
  7. 2002 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 182k
  8. 2003 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 133k
  9. 2004 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 86k
  10. 2005 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 90k
  11. 2006 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 30k
  12. 2007 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 3k
  13. 2008 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 30k
  14. 2010 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 30k
  15. 2011 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 2k
  16. 2012 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 16k
  17. 2014 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 36k
  18. 2015 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 27k
  19. 2016 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 39k
  20. 2017 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 26k
  21. 2018 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 1k
  22. 2019 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  23. 2020 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 8
  24. 2021 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem 350
  25. 2022 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem
    no odometer readings given
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  26. 2023 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  27. 2025 Toyota 4RUNNER other steering problem
    no odometer readings given
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Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2023 Toyota 4RUNNER

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 1 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed