2014 Toyota FJ Cruiser problems
NHTSA has received 37 complaints about the 2014 Toyota FJ Cruiser, and 27% of them involve body & structure. Next are fuel system (11%) and steering (11%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 37 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Body & structure 27% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 1 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 0 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 31,000 miles 20 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 | 8 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 8 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 0 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 1 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 0 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 1 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 1 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 0 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 1 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 20 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 31,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 1 complaint mentions a crash. Its complaints are less severe on average than those of 93% 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 2014 ranks 6th most-complained-about out of 7 model years of the Toyota FJ Cruiser with enough data (20 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 5 safety recall campaigns.
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.
On 7/18/15 at about 11:10 am in the newly paved parking lot of the lowes, latham, new york, the alloy rim of driver side front wheel split (rim into two pieces) causing the tire to blow out and the vehicle to graze the a light pole. The tire, wheel and rim did not hit anything prior to the rim failure. There were no potholes or obstructions in the lot. Even in grazing the light pole, the tire did not make contact with the pole, only the outer fender flare made contact. This was a spontaneous failure of the rim.
I was on a highway at 70 miles per hour(speed limit of that part of highway). I started to try to decelerate to exit the highway with braking, the brakes failed to engaged, depressed brake harder and the ABS started to engaged briefly then stopped. I started to pump the brakes and they finally engaged. I almost flipped the vehicle over going around the turn of the exit( which I had already committed to the turn) because my speed was too high.
I purchased a new fj cruiser & put 5,039 on it & then installed aftermarket wheels & tires. After 2 weeks the vehicle developed a shimmy in the steering at 48 to 65 m.p.h.. I had the tires balanced 4 times & the tire shop also replaced the wheels with no success at eliminating the shimmy. I reinstalled the factory wheels & tires but the shimmy is still present but not as pronounced. I searched the internet for information & found that toyota has had this problem with their fj cruiser models for years.
Tl* the contact owns a 2014 toyota fj cruiser. The contact received notification of NHTSA campaign number: 20v012000 (fuel system, gasoline) however the part to do the recall repair was not available. The contact stated that the manufacturer exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The vehicle was taken to crestmont toyota (730 nj-23, pompton plains, nj 07444) due to an abnormal fuel odor of fuel.
Condition is continuous: when veh. Is in motion or parked with motor running or motor is not running.. Back door of vehicle canot be unlocked with a key as suggested on page 40 of owners manual.. Or when using wireless remote, or door switch.this condition was first noticed when the vehicle was parked and motor not running.. Driver and passenger doors do work properly with the key.