Toyota Tercel — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 252 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Air bags (restraint system)68 (27.0%)
• Seat belts36 (14.3%)
• Brakes20 (7.9%)
• Engine20 (7.9%)
• Tires & wheels18 (7.1%)
• Suspension14 (5.6%)

Other / uncategorized: 8 classifications (3.2%) 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 (230 records, model years 1995–1999) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system), seat belts and brakes.
• Manufacturer communications (244 records, model years 1995–1999) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, powertrain (transmission & drivetrain) and air bags (restraint 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

• 38reports included a mileage
• 116,986average 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. 1995 95 records for 1995 95
2. 1996 81 records for 1996 81
3. 1997 58 records for 1997 58
4. 1998 44 records for 1998 44
5. 1999 36 records for 1999 36

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

• 78mention a crash
• 10mention a fire
• 74mention an injury
• 2mention 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 10
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 244
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 2
• Owner complaints NHTSA 230

Explore the underlying evidence records