2015 Toyota Prius V
This year drew an ordinary 138 complaints for a Toyota Prius V — the model's median is 254. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.2% of them mention change, against 2.4% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 138 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 254 |
| Involving a crash | 28 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 41 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- change — 7.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: change, switched.
- break — 7.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: break, breaks.
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
WAS DRIVING ON THE FREEWAY AT ABOUT 45 MPH WHEN I CAR ABRUPTLY CHANGED LANES IN FRONT OF ME. I IMMEDIATELY SLAMMED ON THE BREAKS BUT THE CAR DID NOT COME TO A COMPLETE STOP. IT KEPT GOING FORWARDS AND WAS NOT DECELERATING FAST ENOUGH. TO AVOID HITTING THE CAR…
My brake booster is failing and has been confirmed with Certified Toyota Master Mechanics at Toyota Dealerships that it is failing. Toyota has a CSP Called ZJB to replace these once the brake booster fails. My car has been identified as one of the cars with a…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V013000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V369000 HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Prius V 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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