2020 TOYOTA RAV4 — Complaint #2014257
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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:INTERIOR PANELS:DOOR filed August 7, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2014257 (ODI reference 11607124) concerns a 2020 TOYOTA RAV4 and was filed on August 7, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 5, 2024. The vehicle had 111,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:interior panels:door, 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 structure:interior panels:door 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 2020 TOYOTA RAV4 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact's son owns a 2020 Toyota RAV4. The contact stated that when it rained, rainwater entered the vehicle onto the passengerâs side front door panel. The contact stated that the sound of the water slushing around in the front passenger's door panel was very distracting. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where it was diagnosed with a failed door trim. The contact was informed that the front passengerâs side door trim needed to be cut and drained. The contact stated that there was more than a gallon of water released from the front passenger's side door panel drain. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 111,000. The VIN was not available.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2014257 |
| ODI Number | 11607124 |
| Date Filed | August 7, 2024 |
| Failure Date | August 5, 2024 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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