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.
2000 TOYOTA AVALON
1 safety recall campaign, 1 defect investigation, 220 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints220
Complaints citing a crash52
Complaints citing a fire2
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 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 27STEERING
- 19VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 14AIR BAGS
- 12VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD
- 10UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 9AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
- 8ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE
- 7SUSPENSION
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2000 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.