CarComplaints.com Notes: Beware of the NHTSA complaint data for the 2008 Corolla. It is almost certainly misleading.
The problem with NHTSA data for the 2008 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 2008 Corolla, our data for the Corolla is a far more statistically accurate representation of the Corolla's reliability than what the NHTSA data shows.
Toyota have replaced filters. catalytic converter, plugged vents and still crap.
They brush it off as fuel smell and normal but not 1 other owner has had same problem.
I have daughter who leases hundreds of same model at her work, asked friends, neighbours, even strangers and not 1 complaint.The smell is awful, makes me nauseous and I get headaches. I have to open windows and put fan on high to rid smell.It happens randomly, sometimes several times in 1 trip and I get sick from it. Toyota says that all the new cars will do it due to new environment laws and changes in fuel. I think that is a load of bull----
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Toyota have replaced filters. catalytic converter, plugged vents and still crap.
They brush it off as fuel smell and normal but not 1 other owner has had same problem.
I have daughter who leases hundreds of same model at her work, asked friends, neighbours, even strangers and not 1 complaint.The smell is awful, makes me nauseous and I get headaches. I have to open windows and put fan on high to rid smell.It happens randomly, sometimes several times in 1 trip and I get sick from it. Toyota says that all the new cars will do it due to new environment laws and changes in fuel. I think that is a load of bull----
- Vickie K., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia