2024 TOYOTA RAV4 — Complaint #2178609
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NHTSA Complaint about VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL filed February 19, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2178609 (ODI reference 11719162) concerns a 2024 TOYOTA RAV4 and was filed on February 19, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 29, 2026. The vehicle had 27,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Minnesota based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as vehicle speed control, 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. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
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 vehicle speed control 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 2024 TOYOTA RAV4 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2024 Toyota Rav4. The contact stated that while driving forward into a parking space and depressing the brake pedal, the vehicle unintendedly accelerated at a high rate of speed, almost causing the vehicle to crash into a building and other parked vehicles before the failure was self-corrected. The vehicle was towed to the local dealer, who was unable to determine the cause of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 27,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2178609 |
| ODI Number | 11719162 |
| Date Filed | February 19, 2026 |
| Failure Date | January 29, 2026 |
| VIN | 2T3N1RFV6RW |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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