NHTSA Safety Recalls
2004 Toyota 4Runner Recalls
The 2004 Toyota 4Runner has 2 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on February 5, 2016.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2004 Toyota 4Runner. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 2
- Owner complaints
- 612
- Crashes reported
- 23
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
3 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2004 Toyota 4Runner, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
2 recalls on the 2004 Toyota 4Runner
Air bags: side/window
- Campaign
- 16V065000
- Reported
- February 5, 2016
- Vehicles affected
- up to 320,409
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury
- Same campaign
- also 2005–2006 4Runner, 4 other models
Vehicle speed control: accelerator pedal
- Campaign
- 11V113000
- Reported
- February 24, 2011
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,363,244
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash, injury and death
- Same campaign
- also 2003, 2005–2009 4Runner, 2 other models
2004 Toyota 4Runner complaints by year
NHTSA has received 612 owner complaints about the 2004 Toyota 4Runner, the newest on June 14, 2026. Of these, 23 describe a crash (4%) and 3 a fire; owners reported 18 injuries.
In complaints about the 2004 Toyota 4Runner, the component group named most often is the structure (50%), followed by the suspension (18%) and the service brakes (9%).
None of the 2004 Toyota 4Runner's 2 recalls concerns the structure.
Where 2004 Toyota 4Runner owners gave the mileage (417 complaints), the median was 121,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Structure309
- Unknown Or Other115
- Suspension108
- Service Brakes57
- Air Bags36
- Vehicle Speed Control30
Complaints received, by year
| 2006 | 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 10 | |
| 2008 | 9 | |
| 2009 | 16 | |
| 2010 | 34 | |
| 2011 | 26 | |
| 2012 | 21 | |
| 2013 | 17 | |
| 2014 | 34 | |
| 2015 | 30 | |
| 2016 | 46 | |
| 2017 | 35 | |
| 2018 | 80 | |
| 2019 | 98 | |
| 2020 | 54 | |
| 2021 | 32 | |
| 2022 | 26 | |
| 2023 | 18 | |
| 2024 | 11 | |
| 2025 | 10 | |
| 2026 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2004 Toyota 4Runner peaked in 2019, when NHTSA received 98. 2% arrived between 2003 and 2007, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2004 vehicles, the 2004 Toyota 4Runner drew 0.5× the complaints of the median Toyota 4Runner year in the same window: 18th highest of the 18 ranked years.
That makes 2004 one of the three best-measured Toyota 4Runner years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 3/5
The 612 complaints about the 2004 Toyota 4Runner are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Toyota 4Runner by model year
Other 2004 Toyota models
Newest record on this page: June 14, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted