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Other fuel system problem on the 2017 Toyota Rav4

1 crash 2 fires 1 injury 1 death 5 of the 9 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 4 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 9
With an odometer reading 4
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 75%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 5
Typical repair $300–$2,200
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 10th

When other fuel system problem gets reported

There are 9 reports of other fuel system problem on the 2017 Toyota Rav4, 4 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 90,000 miles. It is the 10th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 4 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 25,955 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, 2 a fire, 1 an injury and 1 a fatality 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–$2,200 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 2021, at a median of 400 miles, and latest on the 2025 at 180,000 miles.

By volume the 2019 carries the most reports, with 94; the 2017 has 9. 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 fuel system problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  2. 1997 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  3. 1998 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 141k
  4. 2000 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 92k
  5. 2001 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 84k
  6. 2002 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 63k
  7. 2003 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 82k
  8. 2004 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  9. 2005 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 8k
  10. 2006 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 66k
  11. 2007 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 16k
  12. 2008 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 47k
  13. 2009 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 54k
  14. 2010 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 61k
  15. 2011 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 8k
  16. 2012 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 48k
  17. 2013 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 6k
  18. 2014 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 10k
  19. 2015 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 13k
  20. 2016 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  21. 2017 (this one) 26k
  22. 2018 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 8k
  23. 2019 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 3k
  24. 2020 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 2k
  25. 2021 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 443
  26. 2022 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  27. 2023 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 160k
  28. 2024 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  29. 2025 Toyota Rav4 other fuel system problem 178k

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 2017 Toyota Rav4

Other electrical problem

78 reports median 51k

Other engine problem

28 reports median 60k

Other brake problem

26 reports median 10k

Headlight failure or clouding

16 reports median 6k

Other body or interior problem

14 reports median 23k

Cruise control failure

12 reports median 9k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 9 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 9 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 fuel system problem happen on the 2017 Toyota Rav4?

Across 4 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 25,000 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 fuel system problem on the 2017 Toyota Rav4?

9 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.0 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