Recall Register

1996 Toyota Tercel: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1996 Toyota Tercel. NHTSA has 40 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 1996 Toyota Tercel. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 40 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

40 complaints, 45 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.

1996 Toyota Tercel: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Air Bags7
Suspension5
Engine and Engine Cooling4
Visibility4
Tires3
Steering3
Service Brakes, Hydraulic3
Seat Belts3
Power Train2
Unknown or Other2

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 18.

Complaints that report a crash
11
Complaints that report a fire
4
Injuries in the complaints
15
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
3 May 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 1996 Toyota Tercel, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1997, with 13 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. 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

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. 1996 Toyota Tercel: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/toyota/tercel/1996/. 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 Tercel have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Toyota Tercel, model years 1980 to 2000. None of them names the 1996 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1996 Toyota Tercel name most often?
Air Bags: 7 of 45 component mentions.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1996 Toyota Tercel open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.