AutoUtility currently tracks 25 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2018 Toyota Avalon. Air Bags & Restraints issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 6 complaints (24% of submitted records). Among these NHTSA complaint records, 7 filings cite a crash, 4 report one or more injuries.
- • Total NHTSA Complaints: 25 reports
- • #1 Reported Problem Area: Air Bags & Restraints (6 reports • 24% of submitted complaints)
- • Secondary Problem Areas: Driver Assistance & Safety Tech (4), Steering System (4)
- • Crash-Citing Complaints: 7 filings
- • Fire-Citing Complaints: 0 filings
- • Complaints Reporting Injuries / Fatalities: 4 injury filings • 0 fatality filings
Most Reported Problems for 2018 Toyota Avalon
Top automotive subsystem defect categories ranked by unique owner complaint volume in federal records
Air Bags & Restraints
NHTSA records list 1 official safety recall campaign for this model year involving the same broad component area:
- Campaign #20V024000 AIR BAGS: AIR BAG/RESTRAINT CONTROL MODULE
Driver Assistance & Safety Tech
Steering System
Fuel & Propulsion System
NHTSA records list 1 official safety recall campaign for this model year involving the same broad component area:
- Campaign #20V012000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP
Electrical System
Recent NHTSA Owner Reports for 2018 Toyota Avalon
Representative defect filings submitted by owners to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
"Involved in a 2 vehicle accident on October 26th. My car is totaled and so is the other car. No airbags deployed and my drivers side seat belt failed to lock in the accident. I was injured and taken by ambulance to hospital."
"Date of safety issue: July 12, 2023 Location: Piper Glen Shopping Center, Rea Road, Charlotte NC (destination was Run For Your Life at 6416 Rea Road - within the shopping center). Time: Approximately sometime between 1:30 and 2:00 ET Police Report Complaint # - [XXX] On July 12, 2023 I entered a..."
"Hello, My name is [XXX]. I bought my car from Longo Toyota in El Monte about 15 months ago. The car was certified preowned and had a Carfax report with no accident reported history. That is exactly why I bought the car, because this was going to be my family car. So I bought it and have been..."
"Air Bag did not deploy during a major front end collision. Resulted in total loss of the vehicle."
"Intermittently, unpredictably, for several seconds at a time, the engine almost quits, especially when accelerating So far, it has not happened in heavy traffic, but if it did, it would create a possibly major safety hazard. I have not taken it to a dealer yet. Just learned about the fuel pump..."
Complaint History for Toyota Avalon
Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2015–2022)
| Model Year | NHTSA Complaints | Crash Reports | Safety Recalls | Detailed Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 Toyota Avalon | 53 | 8 | 2 | View 2015 Problems → |
| 2016 Toyota Avalon | 25 | 2 | 4 | View 2016 Problems → |
| 2017 Toyota Avalon | 14 | 2 | 2 | View 2017 Problems → |
| 2018 Toyota Avalon Current Page | 25 | 7 | 2 | Current |
| 2019 Toyota Avalon | 69 | 4 | 5 | View 2019 Problems → |
| 2020 Toyota Avalon | 10 | 1 | 4 | View 2020 Problems → |
| 2021 Toyota Avalon | 27 | 2 | 2 | View 2021 Problems → |
| 2022 Toyota Avalon | 8 | 1 | 0 | View 2022 Problems → |
Detailed NHTSA Component Breakdown for 2018 Toyota Avalon
Complete distribution of consumer defect reports across all 14 granular NHTSA system and subsystem classifications
| Vehicle Component / System | Total Complaints | Crash Reports | Fire Reports | Reported Injury Entries | Reported Fatality Entries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other / Uncategorized NHTSA category: UNKNOWN OR OTHER | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Air Bags NHTSA category: AIR BAGS | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Fuel & Propulsion System NHTSA category: FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Steering NHTSA category: STEERING | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vehicle Speed Control NHTSA category: VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| AIR BAGS,SEAT BELTS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Electrical System NHTSA category: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,LANE DEPARTURE,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| EXTERIOR LIGHTING | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forward Collision Avoidance NHTSA category: FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Service Brakes NHTSA category: SERVICE BRAKES | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| STEERING,AIR BAGS,SERVICE BRAKES | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| STEERING,POWER TRAIN,WHEELS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Structure & Body NHTSA category: STRUCTURE | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Official NHTSA Defect Investigations (2)
Formal safety defect inquiries and engineering analyses opened by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI)
Pedestrian alert sounds
NHTSA received a petition on or about July 18, 2022, requesting that Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 141 be applied to all electric and hybrid vehicles operating in the United States. The petition can be reviewed at NHTSA.gov under ODI Number 11486072. FMVSS 141 establishes performance requirements for pedestrian alert sounds for motor vehicles. The standard applies to hybrid and electric vehicles that have a gross vehicle weight ra...
Electrical overstress
The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened this investigation to determine if the failure of airbags to deploy during severe crashes, in certain vehicles, was the result of a safety related defect. During the investigation a complex failure was studied that can result in non-deployment of subject vehicle air bags and other restraint system devices in severe crash events. The subject vehicles may be equipped with an airbag control unit (AC...
The complaint records on this page are retrieved directly from the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) public database.
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