Recall Register

Toyota Corolla: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 59 recall campaigns for the Toyota Corolla, model years 1969 to 2026. NHTSA has 9,812 complaints on file for this model line. 37 of the 53 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. 19692
  2. 19701
  3. 19712
  4. 19730
  5. 19760
  6. 19771
  7. 19781
  8. 19791
  9. 19801
  10. 19810
  11. 19820
  12. 19830
  13. 19842
  14. 19850
  15. 19860
  16. 19870
  17. 19880
  18. 19891
  19. 19900
  20. 19910
  21. 19921
  22. 19932
  23. 19942
  24. 19952
  25. 19960
  26. 19971
  27. 19980
  28. 19990
  29. 20000
  30. 20010
  31. 20020
  32. 20039
  33. 20049
  34. 20056
  35. 20067
  36. 20076
  37. 20086
  38. 200913
  39. 201017
  40. 20119
  41. 20125
  42. 20135
  43. 20142
  44. 20151
  45. 20161
  46. 20173
  47. 20183
  48. 20195
  49. 20203
  50. 20211
  51. 20233
  52. 20242
  53. 20261
Toyota Corolla: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page100%86
2024 Toyota Corolla200%41,905
2023 Toyota Corolla300%162,700
2021 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page100%999,901
2020 Toyota Corolla300%2,535,111
2019 Toyota Corolla5137%4,731,111
2018 Toyota Corolla32614%4,724,053
2017 Toyota Corolla37138%2,893,710
2016 Toyota Corolla110557%2,891,976
2015 Toyota Corolla112668%2,891,976
2014 Toyota Corolla216790%2,901,771
2013 Toyota Corolla516187%5,750,897
2012 Toyota Corolla5402217%5,700,754
2011 Toyota Corolla9548296%8,702,956
2010 Toyota Corolla171,183639%11,812,585
2009 Toyota Corolla131,410762%13,594,616
2008 Toyota Corolla6297160%2,658,162
2007 Toyota Corolla6791427%5,482,280
2006 Toyota Corolla7804434%5,753,697
2005 Toyota Corolla6809437%5,497,855
2004 Toyota Corolla9460248%6,926,313
2003 Toyota Corolla9682368%6,934,415
2002 Toyota Corolla011361%
2001 Toyota Corolla013271%
2000 Toyota Corolla014478%
1999 Toyota Corolla015483%
1998 Toyota Corolla0221119%
1997 Toyota Corolla113573%61,202
1996 Toyota Corolla012869%
1995 Toyota Corolla217695%637,740
1994 Toyota Corolla217293%644,355
1993 Toyota Corolla213070%644,355
1992 Toyota Corolla16334%669
1991 Toyota Corolla07138%
1990 Toyota Corolla02715%
1989 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page12312%7,749
1988 Toyota Corolla02614%
1987 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page0148%
1986 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page032%
1985 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page032%
1984 Toyota Corolla263%170,126
1983 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page011%
1982 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page053%
1981 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page032%
1980 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page121%98,493
1979 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page121%79,392
1978 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page100%79,392
1977 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page111%79,392
1976 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page011%
1973 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page011%
1971 Toyota Corolla200%300,614
1970 Toyota Corolla NHTSA page100%190,000
1969 Toyota Corolla200%64,325

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

11,918 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 Corolla: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags3534,207
Vehicle Speed Control90.51,079
Steering90.21,075
Engine and Engine Cooling62.3742
Electrical System57.1681
Power Train40.9488
Service Brakes, Hydraulic34.3409
Structure31370
Seat Belts28.1335
Engine25.1299

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Toyota Corolla, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2019, with 6 campaigns.
Complaints about the Toyota Corolla, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 1,773 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Toyota: all 65 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Toyota Corolla: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/toyota/corolla/. 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
15 May 2019
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 Corolla model years have the most recall campaigns?
2010 with 17, 2009 with 13, 2011 with 9. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Toyota Corolla model year has the most complaints?
The 2009 model year, with 1,410 of the 9,812 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Toyota Corolla name?
Air Bags: 353 per 1,000 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 90.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Steering: 90.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Toyota Corolla?
17 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.