15V043000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
Inadvertent deployment of the air bags or the seat belt pretensioners increases the risk of an injury or crash.
2004 TOYOTA AVALON
3 safety recall campaigns, 252 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns3
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints252
Complaints citing a crash36
Complaints citing a fire0
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 3 of 3
11V539000
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
IN SOME CASES, THE BELT FOR THE POWER STEERING PUMP MAY BECOME DETACHED FROM THE PULLEY WHICH COULD RESULT IN A LOSS OF POWER STEERING AND A SUDDEN INCREASE IN STEERING EFFORT, INCREASING THE RISK OF A CRASH.
10V345000
STEERING
SHOULD THE STEERING LOCK BAR BREAK, THE STEERING WHEEL WOULD LOCK AND THE DRIVER WOULD LOSE THE ABILITY TO STEER THE VEHICLE, INCREASING THE RISK OF A CRASH.
What owners report most
- 122AIR BAGS
- 24STEERING
- 23VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 10ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 7SEAT BELTS
- 5AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
- 4UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 4ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2004 TOYOTA AVALONs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.