2017 Toyota Prius V
This year drew an ordinary 101 complaints for a Toyota Prius V — the model's median is 254. What they were about is the unusual part: 10.9% of them mention hand, against 2% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 101 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 254 |
| Involving a crash | 15 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 41 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- hand — 10.9% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (5.5×). Owners wrote it as: hand, skin, ensure, child.
- prime — 7.9% of this year's complaints, against 0.7% across the model's other years (10.9×). Owners wrote it as: prime, prius prime, feature.
- without warning — 9.9% of this year's complaints, against 3.1% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: without warning, rolled, blvd.
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
I WANT TO CHECK IF THERE IS A ISSUE WITH THE PRE COLLISION AND THE BRAKING ASSISTANCE FEATURES. MY PRIUS PRIME ROLL FORWARD DURING A IDLED STOP AND I DID NOT RECEIVE WARNING AND THE CAR DID NOT ASSIST STOP FEATURE DID NOT ENGAGE.
I HAVE RECENTLY INSTALLED HAND CONTROLS ON MY CAR AND UNDERWENT PROPER TRAINING.FSINCE THE HAND CONTROLS WORK THE OPPOSITE OF A ZERO TURN LAWNMOWER I HAVE TO FIGHT THE FACT THAT THEY WORK IN REVERSE. I HAVE TRIED TO FIND AN APP FOR MY COMPUTER WITH A JOYSTICK…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 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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