Other speed control problem on the 2001 Toyota Avalon
11 crashes 2 injuries 2 deaths 15 of the 18 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other speed control problem gets reported
Owners of the 2001 Toyota Avalon report other speed control problem at a median of 60,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 30,000 miles and a quarter after 75,000 miles, from 13 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 78,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 200 miles at the tenth percentile to 105,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 102,552 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
31% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 248 miles | 28,000 miles | 60,000 miles | 75,000 miles | 102,800 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 11 a crash, 2 an injury and 2 a fatality are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $250–$2,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 18 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2014, at a median of 1,200 miles, and latest on the 1996 at 190,000 miles.
By volume the 2006 carries the most reports, with 82; the 2001 has 18. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Intermittently at a stop vehicle surged. Consumer had to press hard on the brake pedal and put vehicle into park to stop. *ak the cosumer stated the dealer was unable to duplicate the problem. *jb
Let me explain first, I can't substantiate the claim I am making about the possible cause of the accident that killed my wife when driving a 2001 toyota avalon. The reason the accident occurred is that she did not stop at an intersection controlled with a stop sign. The accident occurred in callahan county, texas at the intersection of fm 1750 and highway 36 on april 9, 2007 at approximately 8:30 pm. She drove under the trailer of an 18 wheeler, was killed instantly and dragged under the trailer for 800 to 900 fit. It took the abilene fire departments expertise to remove her body from the wreckage. The local volunteer fire departments did not want to attempt it. There were no skid marks. She had driven this route countless times and was aware of the stop sign. I checked cell phone records and there was no evidence that she could have been on the phone. Admittedly she was upset. She was driving from abilene to mexia, texas to be with her elderly mother who was in a diabetic coma when she last spoke to someone. However, she was a good driver. I can't believe that she was so distracted to allow this to happen. In light of the recent…
Tl*the contact owns a 2001 toyota avalon. She noticed that the engine began surging whenever the brakes were engaged on 25 occasions since november 2000 intermittently. She would depress the brake pedal and the rpms would rapidly increase; however, she would shift the vehicle into park and turn it off. She took the vehicle to the dealer more than ten times but the dealer could not duplicate the failure. She provided detailed information to a toyota representative. The dealer stated that they could not repair the vehicle since they could not duplicate the failure. The current mileage was approximately 41,390. The failure mileage was 441. Updated 03/04/10. *lj updated 09/16/10
Also reported on the 2001 Toyota Avalon
Other engine problem
Other wheel or tire problem
Other steering problem
Other visibility problem
Other powertrain problem
Fuel gauge or level sensor failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 18 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other speed control problem happen on the 2001 Toyota Avalon?
Across 13 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 60,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 30,000 miles and a quarter after 75,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other speed control problem on the 2001 Toyota Avalon?
18 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed