2011 Toyota Avalon
This year drew an ordinary 106 complaints for a Toyota Avalon — the model's median is 53. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.5% of them mention electrical system, against 1.2% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Toyota Avalon, which began in 2005 and ran to 2012. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 106 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 53 |
| Involving a crash | 14 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- electrical system — 8.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.2% across the other years of this generation (7.4×). Owners wrote it as: electrical system, disconnected, part needed.
- window — 9.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the other years of this generation (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: window, sun, miles problem.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 15V047000 (ELECTRICAL SYSTEM) AND STATED THAT THE PART NEEDED WAS NOT AVAILABLE WITHIN A REASONABLE TIMEFRAME TO SCHEDULE THE RECALL REPAIR. THE TECHNICIAN DISCONNECTED THE SUBWOOFER AS A TEMPORARY REMEDY. THE DEALER D…
The rear sun screen will get stuck in the up position . At night there is almost no visibility out of the back window. This is a very dangerous safety problem. Apparently Toyota has had a problem with this feature with no effort made to correct it.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V047000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Avalon was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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