Recall Register

1988 Toyota Corolla: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1988 Toyota Corolla. NHTSA has 26 complaints on file for this model year.

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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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 1988 Toyota Corolla. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 26 complaints for it.

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

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

Complaints by component

26 complaints, 33 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

1988 Toyota Corolla: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Seat Belts7
Seats4
Engine and Engine Cooling4
Electrical System3
Fuel System, Gasoline3
Structure3
Power Train3
Steering1
Visibility1
Vehicle Speed Control1

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 13.

Complaints that report a crash
5
Complaints that report a fire
3
Injuries in the complaints
12
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
23 Mar 2015

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 1988 Toyota Corolla, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 5 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other 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. 20220
  52. 20233
  53. 20242
  54. 20250
  55. 20261

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1988 Toyota Corolla: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/toyota/corolla/1988/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
TOYOTA MOTOR CO., LTD.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Toyota Corolla have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 59 recall campaigns for the Toyota Corolla, model years 1969 to 2026. None of them names the 1988 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1988 Toyota Corolla name most often?
Seat Belts: 7 of 33 component mentions.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1988 Toyota Corolla open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.