CarComplaints.com Notes: Beware of the NHTSA complaint data for the 2007 Corolla. It is almost certainly misleading.
The problem with NHTSA data for the 2007 Corolla is that for months on end, the news media repeatedly told the public that several Toyota models have an unintended acceleration defect, & to go to safercar.gov (the NHTSA's website) to file a complaint.
So, the NHTSA received a disproportionate number of complaints about Toyota unintended acceleration issues because of the national news media attention, to the point where now the NHTSA data is unreliable taken in context with any other vehicle that did not receive national news attention.
CarComplaints.com typically receives more complaints per day about vehicles than the NHTSA does, but the news media did not repeatedly say "go to CarComplaints.com to report your Toyota acceleration problems" like they did about the NHTSA -- so although we have less complaint data than the NHTSA for the 2007 Corolla, our data for the Corolla is a far more statistically accurate representation of the Corolla's reliability than what the NHTSA data shows.
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About These NHTSA Complaints:
This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
I bought this 2007 Corolla le in July 2008. Soon we found that when the car reached the speed of 70 mph or over, there was some high-pitched noise coming from the front window. Since this happened a lot, we brought our car to the dealer in early 2008. The dealer replaced the windshield seal. The noise stopped for some time. Then now it comes back again if we drive it around 75 mph or over. I did some google search. I found quite a few other people with the same model/year has the same problem. Also I have been told by my dealer (billpage, falls church, va) that they were aware of this problem since several clients reported it and brought their cars to the dealer.
- Alexandria, VA, USA
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- Alexandria, VA, USA