Other brake problem on the 2006 Toyota Rav4
2 crashes 2 of the 18 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.
When other brake problem gets reported
Owners of the 2006 Toyota Rav4 report other brake problem at a median of 45,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 15,000 miles and a quarter after 70,000 miles, from 13 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 13th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 10,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 90,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 81,100 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
31% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,900 miles | 16,000 miles | 46,000 miles | 68,124 miles | 89,000 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, 2 a crash is 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 22 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2001 at 105,000 miles.
By volume the 2011 carries the most reports, with 35; the 2006 has 18. 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.
Tl*the contact owns a 2006 toyota rav4. The contact stated that the brakes had to be replaced at 11,500 miles because the rotors were failing. The dealer replaced the rotors and brake pads. While driving 50 MPH, the vehicle began squealing and grinding very badly 4,400 miles later. When she took the vehicle back to the dealer, they stated that the noise originated from the rear brakes, in between the vacuum and the rotors. The contact feels that the system was poorly designed. The possible mileage is 16,700 and failure mileage was 11,500. The consumer provided repair invoices. Updated 08/27/07 *tr
My rav4 started giving me brake problems within 5 months, about 5,500 miles. I took it over to the dealership where I bought the rav4. They said the rotors had to be cut, so they cut them and put new brakes on them. The problem started again in less than a month. I drive a lot in the highway, so I put some miles in the rav4. I took it to the dealership where I bought it again, again and again because they kept on making noise and I was afraid the rav4 wouldn't stop when I put on the brakes. After the 3rd try because the brakes were still making noise and they weren't stopping correctly and the people at the dealership looked at me like I was crazy. They said the car was safe to drive. I changed to another toyota dealership. At this dealership, first they said nothing was wrong, but they took a ride with me in the rav4 and realized what I said. They put new front rotors and new front brakes. When I went to get the rav4, I told them the noise was still there. They said to try it out for at least 500 miles before they put the rear rotors. That was at 18,000 miles. At 19,000 miles I took it back because the noise was still there. They…
Rav4 2006 se le han realizado servicios de mantenimiento al da. Presenta sistema de frenos daado, diagnstico segn el centro de servicio el booster daado. No frena por poco ocasiona accidente al conductor. Millaje 43,549. *tr
Also reported on the 2006 Toyota Rav4
Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
Other steering problem
Steering column or shaft failure
Excessive oil consumption
Other engine problem
Other speed control problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 18 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 2006 Toyota Rav4?
Across 13 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 45,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 15,000 miles and a quarter after 70,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other brake problem on the 2006 Toyota Rav4?
18 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 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