Model years Toyota Grand Highlander
2024 Toyota Grand Highlander
Complaints about this year name making far more often than the model's other years — 10% of them, about 25× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 207 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 67 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 23.5 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- highlander contact — 14% of complaints, 9× usual
- air bags — 7% of complaints, 18× usual
- since — 14% of complaints, 3× usual
What owners wrote
My vehicle has been out of service since October 7, 2025 due to a complete failure of the instrument cluster (combination meter). This issue is related to SAFETY RECALL 25TA08. The instrument panel is fully non-functional, making the vehicle unsafe and inopera…
The vehicle is consistently making a low rumbling noise at 15-20 miles per hour.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V461000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 24V548000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 25V595000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 25V744000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Grand Highlander was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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