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Model years to avoid

Toyota FJ Cruiser

What it says about you

Opinion

Retro on purpose and genuinely capable underneath, which is a rarer combination than it sounds. Values went up and you noticed.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

9 model years on record, 905 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2008 (happened), 2007 (crack). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • wheel 2010, 2012 peak 30% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2014 5 recalls 30 complaints
  2. 2013 4 recalls 23 complaints
  3. 2012 5 recalls 40 complaints
  4. 2011 7 recalls 23 complaints
  5. 2010 12 recalls 65 complaints
  6. 2009 12 recalls 7 complaints
  7. 2008 happened 123 complaints
  8. 2007 crack 593 complaints
  9. 2006 0 recalls 1 complaints

What does a Toyota FJ Cruiser say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.