2011 Toyota Corolla
Complaints about this year name confirmed far more often than the other years of this generation — 6% of them, about 3× the usual rate of 2.3%.
Generation 2 of the Toyota Corolla, which began in 2009 and ran to 2013. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 590 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 212 |
| Involving a crash | 44 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 9 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 3/5 |
| EPA combined | 27 mpg |
What owners wrote
THE CONTACT WAS TRAVELING 15 MPH WHEN THE VEHICLE [VIN] INDEPENDENTLY AS THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL WAS BEING DEPRESSED. THE CONTACT ALSO CONFIRMED THAT THE VEHICLE [VIN] WHEN THE BRAKES WERE DEPRESSED AND THE KEY WAS HOT WHILE IN THE IGNITION. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKE…
NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 20V024000 (AIR BAGS) HOWEVER, THE PART TO DO THE RECALL REPAIR WAS UNAVAILABLE. MELODY TOYOTA (750 EL CAMINO REAL, SAN BRUNO, CA 94066, (877) 587-8635) WAS CONTACTED AND CONFIRMED THAT THE PART WAS NOT AVAILABLE. THE CONT…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V005000 AIR BAGS
- 19V741000 AIR BAGS
- 16V340000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V743000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V689000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 11V566000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 13V014000 AIR BAGS
- 13V123000 EQUIPMENT
Showing 8 of 9. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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