Recall Register

Toyota Tercel: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Toyota Tercel, model years 1980 to 2000. NHTSA has 320 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 21 model years have a page on this register.

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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.

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. 19801
  2. 19811
  3. 19821
  4. 19830
  5. 19840
  6. 19850
  7. 19860
  8. 19871
  9. 19881
  10. 19891
  11. 19901
  12. 19910
  13. 19920
  14. 19930
  15. 19940
  16. 19950
  17. 19960
  18. 19970
  19. 19980
  20. 19990
  21. 20000
Toyota Tercel: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2000 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page017%
1999 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page017%
1998 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page0320%
1997 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page020131%
1996 Toyota Tercel040263%
1995 Toyota Tercel051335%
1994 Toyota Tercel040263%
1993 Toyota Tercel043282%
1992 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page024158%
1991 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page017112%
1990 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page119125%360,399
1989 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page122144%360,399
1988 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page1853%360,399
1987 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page11385%360,399
1986 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page0639%
1985 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page0320%
1984 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page0533%
1983 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page0213%
1982 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page1213%359,000
1981 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page100%359,000
1980 Toyota Tercel NHTSA page100%359,000

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

389 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 Tercel: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags210.882
Seat Belts136.253
Engine and Engine Cooling131.151
Service Brakes, Hydraulic69.427
Electrical System61.724
Fuel System, Gasoline51.420
Visibility48.819
Tires46.318
Suspension41.116
Vehicle Speed Control3614

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Toyota Tercel, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1992, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Toyota Tercel, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 65 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Toyota: all 65 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Toyota Tercel: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/toyota/tercel/. 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 Tercel model years have the most recall campaigns?
1990 with 1, 1989 with 1, 1988 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Toyota Tercel model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 51 of the 320 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Toyota Tercel name?
Air Bags: 210.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Seat Belts: 136.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 131.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Toyota Tercel?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.