Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing: Forward Collision Avoidance › Crash Imminent Braking
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing reported this defect to federal regulators on Nov 3, 2015 and put the number of vehicles at risk at 30,812. The repair is free for as long as the recall stands.
The defect
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain model year 2013-2015 Avalon and Avalon Hybrid vehicles manufactured October 19, 2012 to October 27, 2015 and 2013-2015 Lexus ES350 and ES300h vehicles manufactured June 18, 2012 to July 6, 2015. The affected vehicles are equipped with a Pre-Collision System (PCS) as optional equipment. In these vehicles, the PCS may unexpectedly activate and apply the brakes when the radar detects a steel joint or plate in the roadway as an object.
The risk
A vehicle that unexpectedly brakes increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Toyota will notify owners, and dealers will replace certain PCS components, free of charge. The recall began on July 28, 2016. Owners may contact Toyota at 1-888-270-9371. Toyota's numbers for this campaign are F1V and F2E.
12 model years covered
Newest first| Vehicle | Complaints | Recalls | Fires | Crashes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 Lexus ES Hybrid | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 Lexus ES350 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 Toyota Avalon | 42 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 2015 Toyota Avalon Hybrid | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 Lexus ES Hybrid | 10 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 Lexus ES350 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2014 Toyota Avalon | 96 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 2014 Toyota Avalon Hybrid | 18 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 Lexus ES Hybrid | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2013 Lexus ES350 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 2013 Toyota Avalon | 137 | 4 | 1 | 14 |
| 2013 Toyota Avalon Hybrid | 23 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
What this page is, and what to do next
A recall is not an opinion. It is a Part 573 report a manufacturer is required by federal law to file once it decides a defect poses an unreasonable risk to safety, and it commits them to repairing the vehicle at no cost to the owner. The three passages above are the manufacturer’s own wording as published by NHTSA.
This page describes the campaign. It cannot tell you whether one particular car has already been through the shop — that is tracked by VIN, and only the manufacturer knows it. Check yours at nhtsa.gov/recalls or with a franchised dealer, quoting campaign number 15V728000.
Full record for the 2015 Lexus ES Hybrid → · Recalls carrying a do-not-drive advisory → · Where this data comes from →