Salas v. Toyota

Important Update: On January 8, 2025, the Court issued its Final Orders and Final Judgment approving the class action settlement. As set out in the Settlement Agreement and given that no objections were filed objecting to the class action settlement, the Final Effective Date has been reached for purposes of settlement benefits. You are encouraged to periodically check this website, because it will be updated with additional information from time to time.

There is a proposed settlement (the “Settlement”) in a class action lawsuit against Toyota¹ concerning certain 2012-2015 Toyota Camry vehicles purchased or leased in California (known as the “Subject Vehicles”) that related to the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system (“HVAC System”). If you are included in the Settlement, you have legal rights and options, and deadlines by which you must exercise them.

The case is currently pending before Judge Hernan D. Vera in the United States District Court for the Central District of California in an action titled Alfred Salas et al. v. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (Case No. 2:15-cv-08629-HDV-E). Plaintiffs allege that the HVAC Systems installed in the Subject Vehicles are defective. Toyota denies the allegations brought against it in the lawsuit but has agreed to the Settlement to resolve the case. The Court has not decided who is right. The purpose of this website is to provide you with important information about the Settlement so you may decide what to do.

The Settlement provides Class Members with the opportunity to seek reimbursement for certain reasonable past and future out-of-pocket expenses if they filed a claim by May 31, 2026.

You may be eligible for these benefits if you are an individual who reside(d) in California and at any time prior to May 31, 2024, and own(ed), purchase(d), and/or lease(d) a model year 2012 to 2015 Camry XV50 in California. Excluded from the Class are: (a) Toyota, its officers, directors and employees; its affiliates and affiliates’ officers, directors and employees; its distributors and distributors’ officers, directors and employees; and Toyota Dealers and Toyota Dealers’ officers and directors; (b) Class Counsel; and (c) judicial officers and their immediate family members and associated court staff assigned to this case. In addition, persons are not Class Members once they timely and properly exclude themselves from the Class as provided for in the Settlement Agreement, once the exclusion request has been finally approved by the Court.

For their work in securing this Settlement, the attorneys representing the Class (known as “Class Counsel”) will request $4,100,000 in attorneys’ fees and $350,000 in expenses. Class Counsel will also request service awards of up to $7,500 for Plaintiffs who are serving as class representatives in this Settlement.

The full details of the Settlement, including the Settlement Agreement and other important case documents, are available on the Documents page. Please visit this website regularly for further updates about the Settlement.

¹Capitalized terms have the meaning assigned to them in the Settlement Agreement, unless otherwise noted.