1994 Toyota 4RUNNER problems
The 1994 Toyota 4RUNNER has 76 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (38%) concerns engine. Next are steering (11%) and brakes (9%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 76 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Engine 38% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 13 and 2
- Injuries and deaths
- 11 and 3
- Typical mileage
- 125,000 miles 17 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 | 0 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 0 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 0 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 1 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 4 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 3 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 1 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 4 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 2 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 1 |
| 200k+ miles | 1 |
What the data shows
Of the 17 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 125,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 13 complaints mention a crash; 2 complaints mention a fire; 11 injuries reported; 3 deaths reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 96% 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 1994 ranks 29th most-complained-about out of 35 model years of the Toyota 4RUNNER with enough data (26 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.
Vehicle skidded and rolled resulting in driver's death due to chest injuries and suffocation from being trapped upside down.
Vehicle rollover due to instability design of structure, roof frame/roll bar insufficient for vehicle during collision causing death of occupant when frame severly crushed into passengers head. Mjs
My vehicle was in a accident on the passenger quarter panel the damage caused a electrical outage to all the blinkers on the passenger side and both my passenger side door lock actuators they locked up and stopped working after the accident. With the door lock actuators not working made my vehicle unsafe on the passenger side.
A couple of years after purchasing this toyota 4-runner there was a recall due to faulty head gaskets. They leaked. A recall was (supposedly) done. 100,000 miles later the same problem had to be fixed again. I contacted toyota and was informed that they were only responsible for one fix. That would be nice if they had actually fixed it. A (fix) implies that it has been really fixed. Head gaskets are not supposed to leak . . . Ever! So I am wondering of they really accomplished a fix the first time.