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Other wheel or tire problem on the 2003 Toyota Rav4

1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 1 report 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 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 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 2
Typical repair $200–$1,500
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 35th

When other wheel or tire problem gets reported

There are 1 report of other wheel or tire problem on the 2003 Toyota Rav4. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 35th 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

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 $200–$1,500 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 20 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2014, at a median of 100 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 155,000 miles.

By volume the 2007 carries the most reports, with 19; the 2003 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 Rav4 other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  2. 1997 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 83k
  3. 1998 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  4. 1999 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 156k
  5. 2000 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 153k
  6. 2001 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 41k
  7. 2002 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 5k
  8. 2003 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  9. 2004 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 151k
  10. 2005 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 70k
  11. 2006 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 99k
  12. 2007 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 53k
  13. 2008 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 31k
  14. 2009 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 36k
  15. 2010 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 24k
  16. 2011 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 30k
  17. 2012 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 11k
  18. 2013 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 35k
  19. 2014 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 142
  20. 2015 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 28k
  21. 2016 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 2k
  22. 2017 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 7k
  23. 2018 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 20k
  24. 2019 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 12k
  25. 2020 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  26. 2021 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 10k
  27. 2022 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  28. 2023 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 895
  29. 2024 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 2k
  30. 2025 Toyota Rav4 other wheel or tire problem 7k

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 2003 Toyota Rav4

Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure

108 reports median 99k

Other powertrain problem

83 reports median 95k

Complete transmission failure

42 reports median 92k

Harsh or jerky shifting

34 reports median 108k

Other engine problem

22 reports median 91k

Other electrical problem

17 reports median 89k

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