Federal complaint record · Toyota Corolla · model year 1999

1999 Toyota Corolla

Owners submitted 155 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 39th percentile for complaint intensity within its 1997 to 2001 compact sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is tires. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Tires · 12% · group n = 23Engine · 11% · group n = 21Airbags · 11% · group n = 20Suspension · 9% · group n = 16Speed control · 7% · group n = 14
155
Complaint records on file
66,900
Median mileage at the reported problem · 53 complaints reported mileage
12%
Of classified component reports name tires · group n = 23
39th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 27 model years

Tires · 1 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Tires12%

Tires reports

Toyota Corolla · model year 1999

Reports in this group23
Share of classified reports12%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

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1998
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
225 matched incidents
This car
1999
0.0complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
155 matched incidents
2000
0.0complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
144 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Fire or smoke · 14 reports

Reports describe smoke, burning smells, or fire

Cluster 1 of 31999 Toyota Corolla
Brake performance · 13 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 31999 Toyota Corolla
Airbag concerns · 12 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 3 of 31999 Toyota Corolla

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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