2005 Toyota Prius
This year drew 1,051 complaints against a median of 162 across the Toyota Prius's other years, 6.5× 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.
Generation 1 of the Toyota Prius, which began in 2004 and ran to 2009. 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 | 1,051 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 162 |
| Involving a crash | 102 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| EPA combined | 46 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 12V537000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 12V536000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 09V388000 VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 06V096000 AIR BAGS
- 10V036000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 06V188000 STEERING
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Prius 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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