2008 Toyota Corolla
This year drew 344 complaints against a median of 212 across the Toyota Corolla's other years, 1.6× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 6 recalls, listed below.
Last year of its generation. This Toyota Corolla ran from 2003 to 2008, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 344 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 212 |
| Involving a crash | 77 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| EPA combined | 30 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 19V741000 AIR BAGS
- 19V627000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V127000 AIR BAGS
- 16V128000 AIR BAGS
- 10V384000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 10V036000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Corolla was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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