2015 Toyota Avalon
This year drew an ordinary 53 complaints for a Toyota Avalon — the model's median is 68. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.4% of them mention tool, against 0.7% across the model's other years.
Generation 2 of the Toyota Avalon, which began in 2013 and ran to 2018. 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 | 53 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 68 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- tool — 9.4% of this year's complaints, against 0.7% across the model's other years (13.9×).
- stated driving — 13.2% of this year's complaints, against 4% across the model's other years (3.3×).
- onto — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the model's other years (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: onto, failing.
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
Front windshield seems to be failing. Glass along perimeter where Windshields sits / mounts onto the body of the car its failing. The glass seems to be delaminating in various spots along the entire perimeter. Please review photos. I have contacted Toyota Corp…
NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 15V728000 (FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE); HOWEVER, THE PART TO DO THE REPAIR WAS UNAVAILABLE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE [VIN] EXCEEDED A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME FOR THE RECALL REPAIR. THE [VIN] WAS MADE AWARE OF THE IS…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V728000 FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE Fixed free of charge.
- 20V024000 AIR BAGS 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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