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Toyota Corolla 2012

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.18 per 1,000

0.6 times this nameplate’s own median · from 49 complaints filed in the first three years, of 446 ever. 95% lower bound 0.13.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.30	107
2009	1.98	640
2010	2.12	597
2011	0.34	87
2012	0.18	49
2013	0.29	86
2014	0.28	91
2015	0.25	87
2016	0.23	87
2017	0.24	86
2018	0.27	86
2019	0.26	78
2020	0.33	88
2021	0.20	49
2022	0.26	62
2023	0.29	67

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Air Bags 370 complaints

recall	326	88%
takata	261	70%
takata recall	247	67%
confirms	124	34%
tool confirms	123	33%
confirms parts	122	33%

When it breaks

41% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 36,509 miles, from 115 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

2 investigations covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign.

Electrical overstress

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10457587 · 10459193 · 10460331 · 10461737 · 10463088 · 10464222

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.