Other brake problem on the 2001 Toyota Highlander
1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 6 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
Only 3 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.
When other brake problem gets reported
There are 6 reports of other brake problem on the 2001 Toyota Highlander, 3 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 7th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 53,000 miles | — | — |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $300–$1,800 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 21 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2021, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2008 at 145,000 miles.
By volume the 2006 carries the most reports, with 57; the 2001 has 6. 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.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
The car accident in which I was involved in had suspicious activities that followed, for example, finance company repossessed my vehicle although my payments were current. Recently, while researching vehicle recalls, I found that my 2001 toyota highlander had a hydraulic brake recall. The accident caused injuries as well as totaling out two vehicles. I was driving on fwy when I had to stop suddenly due to construction traffic. My highlander's brakes went to the floor which made it impossible to stop. *tr
I bought a toyota highlander in 2001. I think my car does have a brake problem. When I apply brakes at speed over 50 miles, car is vibrating and hard to stop. I have to stop applying brake. After buying a car, I took it to the dealer, and the sales agent said, "it is not a brake problem, it is because of hard pressure." recently, my husband drove the car and he felt it too.(date for this incident is some where in september 2001) (2) occasionally my car ignition is not working, I have to give gas to start car! I took it to toyota dealer located at buford mall of ga, in the u.s.a. They worked on it twice. I have spent more than $650. The problem is still not resolved. Then somebody called me to inform that something is bad (coast is $800)and it might fix the problem! I complained to the people who take survey on customer satisfaction. No body follow up on it. I sent an email. Then an agent named "tony" called me and said, "I do not want to spend $800 more and which might fix the problem. I said, "what happened to the first two repairs?" his response was, "it is like you go to doctor. They try one medicine. If you are not cured, they…
Tl* the contact owns a 2001 toyota highlander. The contact stated that while driving approximately 30 MPH, the brake pedal had to be applied forcefully in order for the vehicle to respond. The failure recurred numerous times. The contact referenced NHTSA campaign id number: 01v228000 (service brakes, hydraulic) however, the manufacturer informed the contact that the vehicle was previously repaired under the recall. The dealer's records indicated that there was no remedy repair performed. The recall was not honored and the vehicle had not been repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 72,071.
Also reported on the 2001 Toyota Highlander
Other visibility problem
Other engine problem
Other speed control problem
Other body or interior problem
Loss of braking
Other powertrain problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 6 reports 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 6 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.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other brake problem happen on the 2001 Toyota Highlander?
Across 3 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 55,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other brake problem on the 2001 Toyota Highlander?
6 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
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