1992 Toyota 4RUNNER problems
The 1992 Toyota 4RUNNER has 73 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (32%) concerns brakes. Next are engine (25%) and cruise control (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 73 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 32% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 8 and 3
- Injuries and deaths
- 9 and 4
- Typical mileage
- 143,000 miles 13 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 1 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 0 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 0 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 0 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 2 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 1 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 2 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 2 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 2 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 1 |
| 200k+ miles | 2 |
What the data shows
Of the 13 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 143,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 8 complaints mention a crash; 3 complaints mention a fire; 9 injuries reported; 4 deaths reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 95% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1992 ranks 33rd most-complained-about out of 35 model years of the Toyota 4RUNNER with enough data (19 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
My husband, stanley w. Sirnik bought a 1992 toyota 4-runner. He only had it for two weeks when he decided to travel to west virginia. Stanley, my brother -in-law and my young son was coming back from shopping the next day. Stanley put the truck into cruise control at 40 MPH. He was traveling along at 40 MPH when all of sudden the truck started to accelerate up to a very high speed. He tried to take it out of cruise control but he could not. He applied the brakes, but the brakes would not work.
A 1992 toyota 4-runner was purchased and we only had it for two weeks. The truck was driven to west virginia. The next day the truck suddenly accelerated at a high speed and when the brakes were applied it would not stop. It crashed and flipped over. My husband died in that truck. There was a law suite but it never went to court after five years. My lawyers gave up. Toyota never settled with me and only said it was driver error.
1992 toyota 4 runner. Consumer states after using the ect power button, she no longer had control of the vehicle causing a accident *tgw the consumer stated when she looked down to see if the accelerator pedal was stuck she then looked back up and realized she was on the wrong side of the road. As she attempted to steer the vehicle back to the correct lane, she overcorrected, rolled three times and was ejected from the vehicle. The vehicle came to rest upside down on top of her from the waist up.
I have a 1992 toyota 4runner with v6 3vze engine which toyota knows has a bad head design and head gasket failure. They have a recall for one time only replacement which was doen in 97 at 51k mi. By the previous owner. Last dec. I started having problems and the toyota dealership did not advise me that I had a blown head gasket. They wanted to change out fuel injectors since it was running rough. The roughness was from coolant leaking into the cylinders. After research I found all this info. Out.
Made a noise starting idling weird hadn't even warmed up the car yet just drove up the street to store real quick when came back. Sounding like poop and checked everything milky oil a sign of a head gasket. Ps it happened on my birthday last year. It really