NHTSA Safety Recalls
2018 Toyota Avalon Recalls
The 2018 Toyota Avalon has 2 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on January 17, 2020.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2018 Toyota Avalon. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 2
- Owner complaints
- 24
- Crashes reported
- 7
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
in complaints
overall, 5 stars max
On a 2018 Toyota Avalon, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
2 recalls on the 2018 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 2012–2017 Avalon, 3 other models
Fuel system, gasoline: delivery: fuel pump
- Campaign
- 20V012000
- Reported
- January 13, 2020
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,830,752
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2019 Avalon, 21 other models
2018 Toyota Avalon complaints by year
NHTSA has received 24 owner complaints about the 2018 Toyota Avalon, the newest on November 25, 2025. Of these, 7 describe a crash (29%); owners reported 4 injuries.
In complaints about the 2018 Toyota Avalon, the component group named most often is the air bags (25%), followed by the steering (17%) and the fuel/propulsion system (13%).
1 of the 2018 Toyota Avalon's 2 recalls also concerns the air bags.
Where 2018 Toyota Avalon owners gave the mileage (14 complaints), the median was 10,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Air Bags6
- Unknown Or Other5
- Steering4
- Fuel/Propulsion System3
- Forward Collision Avoidance2
- Service Brakes2
Complaints received, by year
| 2018 | 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | |
| 2020 | 5 | |
| 2021 | 4 | |
| 2022 | 2 | |
| 2023 | 2 | |
| 2025 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2018 Toyota Avalon peaked in 2019, when NHTSA received 6. 79% arrived between 2017 and 2021, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2018 vehicles, the 2018 Toyota Avalon drew 0.4× the complaints of the median Toyota Avalon year in the same window: 16th highest of the 21 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: ★★★★★
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 4/5
The 24 complaints about the 2018 Toyota Avalon are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Toyota Avalon by model year
Other 2018 Toyota models
Newest record on this page: November 25, 2025. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted