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2008 Toyota Yaris

Complaints about this year name bags however far more often than the model's other years — 11% of them, about 28× the usual rate of 0.4%.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

Also unusual this year

• abs — 10% of complaints, 24× usual
• takata — 19% of complaints, 3× usual
• aware failure — 8% of complaints, 19× usual

What owners wrote

TAKATA RECALL ISSUED 01/09/2017. NO NOTIFICATION RECEIVED FROM TOYOTA AS OF 02/17/2017. LEARNED OF RECALL FROM NHTSA WEBSITE, NOT FROM TOYOTA.

TAKATA RECALL. MY CAR IS IN THE HIGHEST RISK ZONE (ZONE A). I WAS NOTIFIED BY MAIL ON 6/9/2016 BUT A REMEDY IS STILL NOT AVAILABLE AS OF 12/6/2016.

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 19V741000 AIR BAGS
• 17V006000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 16V340000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 14V168000 AIR BAGS
• 15V689000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
• 14V169000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
• 12V491000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
• 10V036000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.

Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Toyota Yaris was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.

This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.

Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.

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