Federal complaint record · Toyota Corolla · model year 2010

2010 Toyota Corolla

Owners submitted 1,241 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 93th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2008 to 2012 compact sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 27% · group n = 424Steering · 24% · group n = 370Speed control · 13% · group n = 198Brakes · 11% · group n = 169Electrical · 5% · group n = 74
1,241
Complaint records on file
6,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 767 complaints reported mileage
27%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 424
93th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 35 model years

Airbags · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags27%

Airbags reports

Toyota Corolla · model year 2010

Reports in this group424
Share of classified reports27%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2009
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,459 matched incidents
This car
2010
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,241 matched incidents
2011
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
584 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
Airbag concerns · 312 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32010 Toyota Corolla
Steering effort · 255 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 2 of 32010 Toyota Corolla
Brake performance · 243 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 3 of 32010 Toyota Corolla

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

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