Toyota Land Cruiser owners have reported a total of 319 problems for their cars built in the 25 model years listed in the chart below. The chart shows the number of problems reported across all service years for each given model year of the Toyota Land Cruiser. The 2000 Toyota Land Cruiser cars have the most problems reported (41 problems).
The following chart shows the 29 most common problems for Toyota Land Cruiser cars. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's service brakes, hydraulic (78 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's power train (30 problems).
It would not be fair to compare the Toyota Land Cruiser of an older model year to newer model years since older vehicles have been in service longer and thus are expected to have more problems. In order to compare the reliability across Land Cruiser model years, we use the PPMY index which is defined as the problems reported per thousand vehicles per Year. A smaller PPMY index indicates greater reliability of the given model year cars.
PPMY = P / S / Y * 1000,
where P = total problems reported during the life of a Toyota Land Cruiser model year; S = total units sold of the model year; Y = years since the debut of the model year (the age of the vehicle).
The results are shown in Table 3.
| Land Cruiser Model Year | Problems | Sales [1] | Vehicle Age |
PPMY Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 5,095 | 5 | |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,358 | 8 | |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,141 | 9 | |
| 2016 | 7 | 3,823 | 10 | |
| 2015 | 3 | 2,276 | 11 | |
| 2014 | 2 | 2,988 | 12 | |
| 2013 | 8 | 5,449 | 13 | |
| 2011 | 5 | 2,711 | 15 | |
| 2010 | 5 | 1,490 | 16 | |
| 2009 | 6 | 2,041 | 17 | |
| 2008 | 11 | 5,089 | 18 | |
| 2007 | 4 | 2,173 | 19 | |
| 2006 | 10 | 4,850 | 20 | |
| 2005 | 11 | 4,421 | 21 | |
| 2004 | 8 | 7,134 | 22 | |
| 2003 | 11 | 6,779 | 23 | |
| 2002 | 17 | 6,331 | 24 | |
| 2001 | 11 | 8,088 | 25 | |
| 2000 | 41 | 19,411 | 26 |
Another way to measure the reliability across the model years of the Toyota Land Cruiser is to use the total number of problems reported during the vehicle's first year in service, as shown in the Table 4.
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| ☘ Land Cruiser Service Bulletins |
| ⚑ Land Cruiser Safety Recalls |
| ☤ Land Cruiser Defect Investigations |
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