2000 Toyota Tercel

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the steering › hydraulic power assist system. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Steering › Hydraulic Power Assist System1
001

What owners reported

Newest filings
Steering › Hydraulic Power Assist System1 injured
Filed Oct 24, 2002MI

STIFF/TIGHT STEERING HAS CAUSED MY FINGERS TO BECOME BENT AND TWISTED. MY INDEX AND RING FINGERS ARE BENT TOWARDS THE BABY FINGER. THIS RESULTS IN A CRIPPLING EFFECT ON MY HANDS. DT

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1995
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
2000 — this page1000Routine
19991101Fatalities reported
19983100Routine
199720200Routine
199640240Routine
199551210Routine
199440032Fatalities reported
199343000Routine
199224011Fatalities reported
199117010Routine
199019140Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.