2011 Toyota Avalon — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 130 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Steering33 (25.4%)Official recall records for this system: 8, covering model years 2000–2021.
• Electrical system25 (19.2%)Official recall records for this system: 12, covering model years 1998–2019.
• Visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors)14 (10.8%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2013.
• Speed control & accelerator11 (8.5%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2005–2010.
• Brakes8 (6.2%)Official recall records for this system: 6, covering model years 1997–2015.
• Body & structure6 (4.6%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2001.

Other / uncategorized: 10 classifications (7.7%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (6,801 records, model years 1995–2022) are most frequently classified under: speed control & accelerator, air bags (restraint system) and steering.
• Safety recalls (121 records, model years 1997–2021) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system), electrical system and equipment & accessories.
• Transport Canada recalls (91 records, model years 1997–2021) are most frequently classified under: fuel system, air bags (restraint system) and electrical system.
• Manufacturer communications (6,765 records, model years 1995–2022) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and body & structure.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 78reports included a mileage
• 42,122average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 1995 137 records for 1995 137
2. 1996 163 records for 1996 163
3. 1997 186 records for 1997 186
4. 1998 259 records for 1998 259
5. 1999 173 records for 1999 173
6. 2000 302 records for 2000 302
7. 2001 262 records for 2001 262
8. 2002 227 records for 2002 227
9. 2003 408 records for 2003 408
10. 2004 338 records for 2004 338
11. 2005 444 records for 2005 444
12. 2006 575 records for 2006 575
13. 2007 462 records for 2007 462
14. 2008 624 records for 2008 624
15. 2009 385 records for 2009 385
16. 2010 375 records for 2010 375
17. 2011 383 records for 2011 383
18. 2012 332 records for 2012 332
19. 2013 645 records for 2013 645
20. 2014 553 records for 2014 553
21. 2015 361 records for 2015 361
22. 2016 297 records for 2016 297
23. 2017 241 records for 2017 241
24. 2018 207 records for 2018 207
25. 2019 297 records for 2019 297
26. 2020 206 records for 2020 206
27. 2021 193 records for 2021 193
28. 2022 113 records for 2022 113

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 14mention a crash
• 6mention an injury

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 1
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 274
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 2
• Owner complaints NHTSA 106

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