16V396000
SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:SEAT HEATER/COOLER
If damaged, the copper strand heating element may short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire.
2007 TOYOTA AVALON
5 safety recall campaigns, 313 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns5
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints313
Complaints citing a crash65
Complaints citing a fire1
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 5 of 5
14V743000
SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:SEAT HEATER/COOLER
Damage to the seat heater wiring could cause the wires to short, increasing the risk of the seat burning and causing personal injury to the occupant.
10V035000
EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS
THIS DOES NOT MEET THE STANDARD REQUIREMENTS.
10V036000
EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS
A DRIVER MAY OVERLOAD A VEHICLE WHICH MAY INCREASE THE RISK OF A CRASH.
10V017000
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:ACCELERATOR PEDAL
THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL MAY BECOME HARD TO DEPRESS, SLOW TO RETURN TO IDLE, OR, IN THE WORST CASE, MECHANICALLY STUCK IN A PARTIALLY DEPRESSED POSITION, INCREASING THE RISK OF A CRASH.
What owners report most
- 65VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 20AIR BAGS
- 19ENGINE
- 16VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:ACCELERATOR PEDAL
- 15ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 15POWER TRAIN
- 14STEERING
- 14STRUCTURE:BODY
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2007 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.