CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2014 Prius v has yet to receive a complaint from a CarComplaints.com member. That is a rare circumstance for a car with a few years under its timing belt and worthy of our "Seal of Pretty Good" badge.
Are there problems? Of course. But when one of the top NHTSA complaints is a head gasket blowing at 120,000+ miles, you know you're in pretty good shape.
3.1
definitely annoying
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
45,000 miles
About These NHTSA Complaints:
This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
Yokohama avid envigor 215/50/R17 tread separation: Rear driver side tire developed a crack on the inside of the tire. Tires have 18,000 miles on them. Installed 12/27/2017. Crack resulted in air loss triggering the TPMS system. Discovered while driving on city street. Removed wheel and inspected vigorously before finding said crack. Contacted yokohama and gave them opportunity to take responsibility for the defect, sent them picture of crack but they refused to do anything about it, claiming it's a road hazard damage. When a tire cracks, this indicates weak tread and delamination of the tire layers (tread separation). Spent a week communicating with them (yokohama) to no avail. They adamantly refused to take responsibility.
Since the vehicle was purchased, the odometer has been off by about 2 miles per hour at 65, and 3-4 miles per hour at 95. This means that the oboe get is recording 4% higher mileage than what is actually being driven. My car is not alone, many Prius V models have the same problem. Dealership did not have a solution. This not only voided my 100,000 mile warranty 3-4K miles early, but it makes the fuel economy look better on paper than it actually is- a selling point that Toyota takes advantage of. To me, this is just as bad as what Volkswagen did with their diesel vehicles.
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- Iowa City, IA, USA