10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
2 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
2 / 0
Average Mileage:
31,250 miles

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problem #4

Oct 162018

RAV4

  • 125,000 miles
My wife had an accident on the highway Oct /16/2018 a Chevy van severely crash into the rear of my 2003 Rav4, and none of the airbags deployed.shouldn't the airbags have deployed"what should I do"

- Los Angeles, CA, USA

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problem #3

Oct 172017

RAV4

  • miles
Takata recall

- Mount Airy, GA, USA

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problem #2

Oct 032008

RAV4

  • 0 miles
Instructions say a 12 yr. Old or under should sit in the back seat due to the fact an airbag could kill the child. However, we are only 5 feet 2 inches which is the size of a 12 yr old. Shouldn't our airbags be disconnected??

- Long Beach, CA, USA

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problem #1

Feb 252008

RAV4 4-cyl

  • Automatic transmission
  • miles
My mother was driving back from her second home on the 60 freeway in southern California at normal highway speed and came up upon stopped traffic. She applied her brakes hard but ran into the back of one vehicle which was pushed out of the lane and then my mother continued into the back of another vehicle before coming to a stop. In neither of the 2 separate collisions did any of the airbags in her 2003 Toyota rav 4 deploy. Because of the accident she broke her neck between C5 and C6 in her spinal column and has been in the icu unit of the local hospital ever since.

- Fullerton, CA, USA

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