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Toyota Corolla 2021

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.20 per 1,000

0.7 times this nameplate’s own median · from 49 complaints filed in the first three years, of 185 ever. 95% lower bound 0.14.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.30	107
2009	1.98	640
2010	2.12	597
2011	0.34	87
2012	0.18	49
2013	0.29	86
2014	0.28	91
2015	0.25	87
2016	0.23	87
2017	0.24	86
2018	0.27	86
2019	0.26	78
2020	0.33	88
2021	0.20	49
2022	0.26	62
2023	0.29	67

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Air Bags 52 complaints

part recall	19	37%
yet	19	37%
however part	19	37%
repair made	18	35%
repair yet	15	29%
yet exceeded	13	25%

When it breaks

44% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 39,200 miles, from 25 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

1 investigation covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 20 complaints about this component over roughly 10 months before an investigation opened.

Pedestrian alert sounds

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

11360341 · 11394569 · 11396391 · 11398566 · 11399776 · 11405132

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.