2009 Toyota Yaris
Complaints about this year name may far more often than the model's other years — 10% of them, about 24× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 206 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 18 |
| Involving a crash | 50 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| EPA combined | 31.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- sedan — 11.7% of this year's complaints, against 4.1% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: sedan, request, writing, yaris sedan.
- small — 7.8% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (3.8×). Owners wrote it as: small, idea.
- makes — 8.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: makes, likely, add, car two.
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.
Also unusual this year
- airbag — 16% of complaints, 5× usual
- driving approximately — 8% of complaints, 19× usual
- notice — 8% of complaints, 19× usual
What owners wrote
WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 25 MPH, THE DRIVER NOTICED SMOKE AROUND THE FRONT DRIVER SIDE DOOR WINDOW. THE CONTACT COASTED THE VEHICLE TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND TURNED OFF THE ENGINE. A CERTIFIED INDEPENDENT MECHANIC CAME OUT TO INSPECT THE VEHICLE AND NOTIC…
TAKATA RECALL THEY TELL US THAT D AIR BAG OF THE PASSAGES IS WRONG AND MAY CAUSE PROBLEM.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V741000 AIR BAGS
- 17V006000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V024000 AIR BAGS
- 16V340000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V168000 AIR BAGS
- 15V689000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 14V169000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 10V036000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Yaris 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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