2012 Toyota Yaris — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 47 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Air bags (restraint system)18 (38.3%)Official recall records for this system: 15, covering model years 2006–2017.
• Electrical system5 (10.6%)Official recall records for this system: 12, covering model years 2006–2019.
• Body & structure5 (10.6%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2012–2015.
• Tires & wheels5 (10.6%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2016–2017.
• Speed control & accelerator4 (8.5%)
• Brakes2 (4.3%)

Other / uncategorized: 2 classifications (4.3%) 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 (1,666 records, model years 2006–2020) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system), brakes and speed control & accelerator.
• Safety recalls (91 records, model years 2006–2020) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system), equipment & accessories and visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors).
• Transport Canada recalls (72 records, model years 2006–2020) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, air bags (restraint system) and seat belts.
• Manufacturer communications (2,851 records, model years 2006–2020) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and body & structure.

"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

• 23reports included a mileage
• 71,197average 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. 2006 146 records for 2006 146
2. 2007 431 records for 2007 431
3. 2008 388 records for 2008 388
4. 2009 261 records for 2009 261
5. 2010 281 records for 2010 281
6. 2011 198 records for 2011 198
7. 2012 244 records for 2012 244
8. 2013 222 records for 2013 222
9. 2014 204 records for 2014 204
10. 2015 202 records for 2015 202
11. 2016 170 records for 2016 170
12. 2017 214 records for 2017 214
13. 2018 161 records for 2018 161
14. 2019 142 records for 2019 142
15. 2020 84 records for 2020 84

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

• 12mention a crash
• 1mention a fire
• 11mention an injury
• 1mention 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 5
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 200
• Investigations NHTSA 1
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 3
• Owner complaints NHTSA 35

Explore the underlying evidence records