NHTSA Safety Recalls
2016 Toyota Corolla Recalls
The 2016 Toyota Corolla has 1 NHTSA safety recall on file, the newest reported on January 17, 2020.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2016 Toyota Corolla. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 1
- Owner complaints
- 215
- Crashes reported
- 66
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
2 fires
overall, 5 stars max
On a 2016 Toyota Corolla, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
1 recall on the 2016 Toyota Corolla
Air bags: air bag/restraint control module
- Campaign
- 20V024000
- Reported
- January 17, 2020
- Vehicles affected
- up to 2,891,976
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2011–2015, 2017–2019 Corolla, 3 other models
2016 Toyota Corolla complaints by year
NHTSA has received 215 owner complaints about the 2016 Toyota Corolla, the newest on October 13, 2026. Of these, 66 describe a crash (31%) and 2 a fire; owners reported 57 injuries.
In complaints about the 2016 Toyota Corolla, the component group named most often is the air bags (30%), followed by the service brakes (14%) and the seat belts (12%).
The 2016 Toyota Corolla's only recall also concerns the air bags.
Where 2016 Toyota Corolla owners gave the mileage (139 complaints), the median was 25,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Air Bags65
- Service Brakes30
- Seat Belts26
- Unknown Or Other24
- Power Train22
- Steering22
Complaints received, by year
| 2015 | 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 26 | |
| 2017 | 34 | |
| 2018 | 27 | |
| 2019 | 32 | |
| 2020 | 48 | |
| 2021 | 12 | |
| 2022 | 5 | |
| 2023 | 6 | |
| 2024 | 10 | |
| 2025 | 7 | |
| 2026 | 7 |
Complaints about the 2016 Toyota Corolla peaked in 2020, when NHTSA received 48. 56% arrived between 2015 and 2019, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2016 vehicles, the 2016 Toyota Corolla drew 1.0× the complaints of the median Toyota Corolla year in the same window: 12th highest of the 23 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: ★★★★★
- Frontal: 5/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 4/5
The 215 complaints about the 2016 Toyota Corolla are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Toyota Corolla by model year
Other 2016 Toyota models
Newest record on this page: October 13, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted