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2013 Toyota Prius C: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2013 Toyota Prius C. NHTSA has 57 complaints on file for this model year. 1 NHTSA investigation names 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 2013 Toyota Prius C. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 57 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

57 complaints, 91 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.

  • 2013 Toyota Prius C
  • All 2013 vehicles
2013 Toyota Prius C: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2013 Prius CAll 2013 vehiclesPrius C, all yearsMentions
Electrical System252.7124.7178.323
Service Brakes175.853.1199.316
Engine76.9158.280.47
Hybrid Propulsion System54.90.4215
Fuel/Propulsion System54.942.3285
Unknown or Other54.980.4122.45
Air Bags4475.359.44
Vehicle Speed Control4431.6494
Exterior Lighting4428.7424
Power Train44115.1354

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 20.

Complaints that report a crash
8
Complaints that report a fire
0
Injuries in the complaints
2
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
28 Aug 2026

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 2013 Toyota Prius C, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2025, with 7 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2013 Toyota Prius C
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
DP22005Defect petitionPedestrian alert soundsElectrical System / Propulsion System27 Jan 20237 Aug 202322V063000

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. 20120
  2. 20130
  3. 20140
  4. 20151
  5. 20160
  6. 20171
  7. 20182
  8. 20191

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. 2013 Toyota Prius C: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/toyota/prius-c/2013/. 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
Southeast Toyota Distributors, LLC

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Toyota Prius C have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Toyota Prius C, model years 2012 to 2019. None of them names the 2013 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2013 Toyota Prius C name most often?
Electrical System: 23 of 91 component mentions, or 252.7 per 1,000. For all 2013 vehicles the figure is 124.7 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2013 Toyota Prius C open?
No. The 1 investigation that names this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.