2018 Toyota C-HR
Complaints about this year name warranty far more often than the model's other years — 20% of them, about 6× the usual rate of 3.1%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 307 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 32 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 29 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- model — 11% of complaints, 28× usual
- whining — 18% of complaints, 6× usual
- whining noise — 10% of complaints, 25× usual
What owners wrote
The CVT TRANSMISSION IS MAKING WHINING NOISE. HUNDRRDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS OF REPORTS ON TOYOTA FORUM, YOU TUBE, ECT WITH EXACT SAME ISSUE ON THIS MAKE AND MODEL.
A noise from under the hood kept getting louder. When I took it to the Toyota dealership for inspection, they determined that a bearing in the CVT transmission failed causing the transmission to need total replacement. I can not safely drive my car because the…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V717000 PARKING BRAKE Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota C-HR was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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