2019 Toyota Corolla
This year drew an ordinary 201 complaints for a Toyota Corolla — the model's median is 219. What they were about is the unusual part: 18.9% of them mention clutch, against 3.8% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Toyota Corolla ran from 2014 to 2019, 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 | 201 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 219 |
| Involving a crash | 23 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 32 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- clutch — 18.9% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the other years of this generation (5×). Owners wrote it as: clutch, cylinder, slave, slave cylinder.
- fuel — 15.9% of this year's complaints, against 3.2% across the other years of this generation (5×).
- hatchback — 10.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the other years of this generation (6.9×). Owners wrote it as: hatchback, corolla hatchback, torque, miles per.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
The clutch slave cylinder started leaking fluid. Luckily I noticed this issue before the level was too low. This is especially dangerous as this fluid is shared with the brake system so a loss of too much fluid could cause both a loss of clutch control and a l…
Clutch release bearing/slave cylinder failed at 29,900 miles. Without warning or unusual symptoms, clutch pedal stuck to floor and was unable to shift gears without manually pulling clutch pedal up.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V024000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V012000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 18V901000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 19V503000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 19V244000 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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