2010 Toyota Yaris problems and complaints

Owners have filed 90 complaints with NHTSA about the 2010 Toyota Yaris. The most-reported areas: Air Bags (45), Seats (8), Electrical System (7).

Key takeaways

  • 90 owner complaints on file with NHTSA.
  • 12 involve a crash, 2 a fire, 13 reported injuries.
  • Complaints are unverified owner reports; recalls are confirmed defects.
Complaints by component
ComponentComplaintsShare
Air Bags4550%
Seats89%
Electrical System78%
Visibility/Wiper78%
Vehicle Speed Control67%
Steering67%
Unknown Or Other44%
Seat Belts44%
Structure33%
Fuel System33%
Engine33%
Service Brakes33%

One complaint can name several components, so shares add up to more than 100%.

NHTSA 5-Star crash ratings
VersionOverallFrontSideRollover
2010 Toyota Yaris 4-DR. w/SABNot ratedNot ratedNot ratedNot rated

Latest complaints, as filed

Owner-written and unverified by NHTSA.

Unknown Or Other - filed 2024-11-29

Vehicle was in Park and keys were out and I was on passenger side unloading a shelf and the shelf hit the shifter and the vehicle started rolling backwards and ran over my leg.

Unknown Or Other - filed 2024-06-27

I would like to point out that both Driver and Police Officer safety may be improved if all vehicle designers and manufacturers were to disrupt the convention of locating caches for the drivers vehicle registration information at or below driver shoulder height. It may be a fairly inconsequential to implement a design...

Electrical System - filed 2021-09-28

Malfunctioning components 1. Door locks do not lock all the time when the lock button is pressed. 2. Randomly I will find my doors unlocked, when I closed them when I got out. 3. Doors unlock by themselves and that poses a problem for me and my family. To be able to figure out the issue I have to take it to the dea...

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More for the 2010 Toyota Yaris

Complaints are reports filed by owners with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. NHTSA publishes them without verifying them, and counts rise with how many cars were sold, so compare years of the same model rather than different models. Crash ratings are NHTSA's own 5-Star Safety Ratings results.