NHTSA Safety Recalls
2000 Toyota RAV4 Recalls
The 2000 Toyota RAV4 has 3 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on January 22, 2020.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2000 Toyota RAV4. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 3
- Owner complaints
- 30
- Crashes reported
- 5
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
in complaints
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2000 Toyota RAV4, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
3 recalls on the 2000 Toyota RAV4
Air bags: frontal: driver side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 20V033000
- Reported
- January 22, 2020
- Vehicles affected
- up to 138,842
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash, injury and death
- Same campaign
- only the 2000 Toyota RAV4
Power train: automatic transmission: park/neutral start interlock switch
- Campaign
- 00V211000
- Reported
- August 9, 2000
- Vehicles affected
- up to 756
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- only the 2000 Toyota RAV4
Service brakes, air: disc: rotor
- Campaign
- 00V212000
- Reported
- August 9, 2000
- Vehicles affected
- up to 780
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- only the 2000 Toyota RAV4
2000 Toyota RAV4 complaints by year
NHTSA has received 30 owner complaints about the 2000 Toyota RAV4, the newest on November 4, 2025. Of these, 5 describe a crash (17%); owners reported 4 injuries and 2 deaths.
In complaints about the 2000 Toyota RAV4, the component group named most often is the vehicle speed control (23%), followed by the power train (17%) and the tires (10%).
1 of the 2000 Toyota RAV4's 3 recalls also concerns the power train.
Where 2000 Toyota RAV4 owners gave the mileage (18 complaints), the median was 96,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Vehicle Speed Control7
- Power Train5
- Tires3
- Visibility3
- Wheels3
- Engine2
Complaints received, by year
| 2000 | 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1 | |
| 2002 | 6 | |
| 2003 | 1 | |
| 2004 | 1 | |
| 2006 | 2 | |
| 2007 | 2 | |
| 2008 | 1 | |
| 2009 | 1 | |
| 2010 | 4 | |
| 2011 | 2 | |
| 2012 | 1 | |
| 2013 | 2 | |
| 2015 | 3 | |
| 2025 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2000 Toyota RAV4 peaked in 2002, when NHTSA received 6. 33% arrived between 1999 and 2003, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2000 vehicles, the 2000 Toyota RAV4 drew 0.1× the complaints of the median Toyota RAV4 year in the same window: 23rd highest of the 23 ranked years.
That makes 2000 one of the three best-measured Toyota RAV4 years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 5/5
The 30 complaints about the 2000 Toyota RAV4 are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Toyota RAV4 by model year
Other 2000 Toyota models
Newest record on this page: November 4, 2025. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted