Scion tC — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 1,748 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors)300 (17.2%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2005–2006.
• Engine240 (13.7%)
• Body & structure238 (13.6%)
• Air bags (restraint system)176 (10.1%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2005–2006.
• Brakes116 (6.6%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2010–2016.
• Speed control & accelerator86 (4.9%)

Other / uncategorized: 116 classifications (6.6%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (1,386 records, model years 2005–2016) are most frequently classified under: visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors), engine and body & structure.
• Manufacturer communications (1,366 records, model years 2005–2016) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, engine and electrical system.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 1,086reports included a mileage
• 59,601average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 2005 245 records for 2005 245
2. 2006 233 records for 2006 233
3. 2007 238 records for 2007 238
4. 2008 214 records for 2008 214
5. 2009 181 records for 2009 181
6. 2010 139 records for 2010 139
7. 2011 119 records for 2011 119
8. 2012 99 records for 2012 99
9. 2013 111 records for 2013 111
10. 2014 110 records for 2014 110
11. 2015 75 records for 2015 75
12. 2016 48 records for 2016 48

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 252mention a crash
• 34mention a fire
• 258mention an injury
• 36mention a fatality

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 41
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 1,366
• Investigations NHTSA 7
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 16
• Owner complaints NHTSA 1,386

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0441 in 5 records · 2005–2009
• P0455 in 5 records · 2005–2009
• P0031 in 1 record · 2005–2005
• P0630 in 1 record · 2005–2005

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.