NHTSA Safety Recalls
2012 Toyota Avalon Recalls
The 2012 Toyota Avalon has 4 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on January 17, 2020.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2012 Toyota Avalon. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 4
- Owner complaints
- 30
- Crashes reported
- 8
- NHTSA crash test
- Not rated
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
1 fires
On a 2012 Toyota Avalon, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
4 recalls on the 2012 Toyota Avalon
Air bags: air bag/restraint control module
- Campaign
- 20V024000
- Reported
- January 17, 2020
- Vehicles affected
- up to 2,891,976
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2013–2018 Avalon, 3 other models
Air bags
- Campaign
- 18V569000
- Reported
- August 29, 2018
- Vehicles affected
- up to 19,354
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- only the 2012 Toyota Avalon
Electrical system
- Campaign
- 15V047000
- Reported
- January 28, 2015
- Vehicles affected
- up to 51,495
- Risk NHTSA names
- fire
- Same campaign
- also 2011 Avalon
Electrical system
- Campaign
- 13V442000
- Reported
- October 17, 2013
- Vehicles affected
- up to 802,769
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2013 Avalon, 2 other models
2012 Toyota Avalon complaints by year
NHTSA has received 30 owner complaints about the 2012 Toyota Avalon, the newest on May 5, 2023. Of these, 8 describe a crash (27%) and 1 a fire; owners reported 6 injuries.
In complaints about the 2012 Toyota Avalon, the component group named most often is the air bags (20%), followed by the structure (20%) and the electrical system (13%).
2 of the 2012 Toyota Avalon's 4 recalls also concern the air bags.
Where 2012 Toyota Avalon owners gave the mileage (23 complaints), the median was 33,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Air Bags6
- Structure6
- Electrical System4
- Vehicle Speed Control4
- Service Brakes3
- Visibility/Wiper3
Complaints received, by year
| 2013 | 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 3 | |
| 2015 | 10 | |
| 2016 | 2 | |
| 2017 | 2 | |
| 2018 | 2 | |
| 2019 | 2 | |
| 2020 | 2 | |
| 2022 | 2 | |
| 2023 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2012 Toyota Avalon peaked in 2015, when NHTSA received 10. 57% arrived between 2011 and 2015, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2012 vehicles, the 2012 Toyota Avalon drew 0.4× the complaints of the median Toyota Avalon year in the same window: 15th highest of the 21 ranked years.
The 30 complaints about the 2012 Toyota Avalon are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Toyota Avalon by model year
Other 2012 Toyota models
Newest record on this page: May 5, 2023. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted