2011 TOYOTA RAV4 — Complaint #1369859
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:CYBERSECURITY filed April 10, 2017
NHTSA complaint #1369859 (ODI reference 10970208) concerns a 2011 TOYOTA RAV4 and was filed on April 10, 2017. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 21, 2017. The report was geocoded to Minnesota based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:cybersecurity, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same TOYOTA RAV4 cohort independently describe similar electrical system:cybersecurity failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2011 TOYOTA RAV4 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2011 TOYOTA RAV4. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARDS TO CAR HACKING ISSUE. *LD UPDATED 04/10/2017 *JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1369859 |
| ODI Number | 10970208 |
| Date Filed | April 10, 2017 |
| Failure Date | January 21, 2017 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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