Recall Register

Toyota Celica: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 9 recall campaigns for the Toyota Celica, model years 1972 to 2005. NHTSA has 367 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 31 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19721
  2. 19731
  3. 19740
  4. 19770
  5. 19780
  6. 19790
  7. 19801
  8. 19821
  9. 19830
  10. 19840
  11. 19850
  12. 19860
  13. 19870
  14. 19880
  15. 19890
  16. 19901
  17. 19910
  18. 19920
  19. 19930
  20. 19940
  21. 19950
  22. 19960
  23. 19970
  24. 19981
  25. 19991
  26. 20002
  27. 20011
  28. 20021
  29. 20031
  30. 20040
  31. 20051
Toyota Celica: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2005 Toyota Celica NHTSA page1217%271,417
2004 Toyota Celica NHTSA page0217%
2003 Toyota Celica NHTSA page112101%15,048
2002 Toyota Celica127228%15,048
2001 Toyota Celica132270%92,577
2000 Toyota Celica296811%201,633
1999 Toyota Celica NHTSA page1759%138,842
1998 Toyota Celica NHTSA page1434%138,842
1997 Toyota Celica NHTSA page0651%
1996 Toyota Celica NHTSA page0976%
1995 Toyota Celica NHTSA page022186%
1994 Toyota Celica NHTSA page012101%
1993 Toyota Celica NHTSA page01193%
1992 Toyota Celica NHTSA page020169%
1991 Toyota Celica026220%
1990 Toyota Celica126220%2,543
1989 Toyota Celica NHTSA page01193%
1988 Toyota Celica NHTSA page0651%
1987 Toyota Celica NHTSA page0542%
1986 Toyota Celica NHTSA page0976%
1985 Toyota Celica NHTSA page0759%
1984 Toyota Celica NHTSA page0325%
1983 Toyota Celica NHTSA page0217%
1982 Toyota Celica NHTSA page1434%4,561
1980 Toyota Celica NHTSA page1217%98,493
1979 Toyota Celica NHTSA page018%
1978 Toyota Celica NHTSA page018%
1977 Toyota Celica NHTSA page018%
1974 Toyota Celica NHTSA page018%
1973 Toyota Celica NHTSA page100%74,475
1972 Toyota Celica NHTSA page100%74,475

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

453 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Toyota Celica: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling165.675
Air Bags163.474
Power Train94.943
Seat Belts90.541
Vehicle Speed Control79.536
Structure6429
Service Brakes, Hydraulic55.225
Tires46.421
Electrical System44.220
Fuel System, Gasoline41.919

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Toyota Celica, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2004, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Toyota Celica, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2003, with 37 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Toyota: all 64 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Toyota Celica: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/toyota/celica/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
TOYOTA MOTOR CO., LTD.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Toyota Celica model years have the most recall campaigns?
2000 with 2, 2005 with 1, 2003 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Toyota Celica model year has the most complaints?
The 2000 model year, with 96 of the 367 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Toyota Celica name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 165.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 163.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 94.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Toyota Celica?
4 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.