2016 Toyota Corolla at 25,000 miles
You did not give a mileage, so this uses 25,000 — the median reported failure mileage for this model year, which is a rough stand-in for “a typical example of this car”. Put your real reading in the box below for an answer about your car.
At 25,000 miles on this car
At 25,000 miles on a 2016 Toyota Corolla, 19 of the failure modes other owners have reported already have their median report at or below your reading, and 0 more fall inside the window where they are usually reported. The heaviest of the ones already due is seat belt or retractor failure.
Already past the median 19
Half of all reports of these failures came in at or below where your car is now.
- Seat belt or retractor failure 22k
- Other brake problem 14k
- Other steering problem 22k
- Other speed control problem 8k
- Other body or interior problem 14k
- Other wheel or tire problem 18k
- Airbag inflator rupture 25k
- Other electrical problem 21k
- Other suspension problem 18k
- Loss of braking 20k
- Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure 25k
- Other lighting problem 100
7 more.
You are in the window 0
Your reading falls inside the middle half of reports for these.
Nothing here.
Typically later 15
Reported further down the road than where you are.
- Other driver assistance problem 25k
- Torque converter failure 30k
- Tire blowout or tread separation 32k
- Brake line, hose or caliper failure 36k
- Headlight failure or clouding 36k
- CVT failure 40k
- Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure 41k
- Backup camera failure 44k
- Radiator or coolant leak 53k
- Other powertrain problem 57k
- Airbag failed to deploy in a crash 60k
- Other engine problem 60k
3 more.
Timing unknown 9
Reported, but too few owners gave an odometer reading to place them.
- Engine sensor failure 3×
- Cruise control failure 3×
- Air conditioning failure 3×
- Ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 2×
- Paint peeling or clear coat failure 2×
- Infotainment screen failure 1×
- Lane keep or steering assist fault 1×
- Strut, shock or spring failure 1×
- Control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 1×
Why the list is generic until you type a number
Every figure below is a comparison against your odometer, so with no reading given the page has to pick one: 25,000 miles, roughly what a 2016 car covers at 12,000 miles a year. A reading 30,000 miles either side of that moves failures between the columns, which is the difference between a useful list and a generic one.
Already inside the reported range
19 failure modes on the 2016 Toyota Corolla have a median reported mileage at or below 25,000: seat belt or retractor failure (median 20,000 miles, 26 reports), other brake problem (median 15,000 miles, 18 reports), other steering problem (median 20,000 miles, 18 reports), other speed control problem (median 10,000 miles, 18 reports), other body or interior problem (median 15,000 miles, 13 reports) and other wheel or tire problem (median 20,000 miles, 11 reports).
These are the ones worth mentioning to a mechanic by name at the next service. Being past a median is not being overdue — it means the reports cluster below where you are now, so if the failure was going to be typical, it would already have happened.
Still ahead of you
15 further modes sit above your reading, the nearest being other driver assistance problem at a median of 25,000 miles. On a car you intend to keep, these are the ones that decide whether it is worth keeping.
What this list is not
It is a reading of what owners of other 2016 Toyota Corollas reported, and at what odometer reading they reported it. It is not a maintenance schedule, not a diagnosis, and not a prediction about this car: two identical cars with different service histories are not the same car.
Complaints are filed voluntarily, mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers, and a failure mode with few reports has a wide window even when the median looks precise. Modes with fewer than 8 dated reports are shown without percentiles for that reason.
Where 25,000 miles falls on the curve
The three columns above sort the failure modes one by one. This is the same evidence in aggregate: every dated report on this model year, stacked up in the order the odometer readings arrived. The dashed line marked you is where your car sits. How much of the line is to the left of that mark is how much of this model year's reported trouble is, on the evidence, already behind you.
About 42% of the dated reports on this model year had already been filed by 25,000 miles. That is the share of the problems that show up in this record, not of the problems this car will have.
- Line share of reports filed by that mileage
- Dashed the mileages called out above
A steep early climb means a car whose reports cluster young, which is the pattern of a defect rather than of wear. A line that only gets going past six figures is the opposite. Neither shape says anything about the specific car in your driveway, and a curve built from a few dozen readings can be moved by one owner with a talkative afternoon.
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Questions this page answers
What should I expect at 25,000 miles on a 2016 Toyota Corolla?
19 of the failure modes owners have reported on the 2016 Toyota Corolla have a median report at or below 25,000 miles, and 0 more fall inside the mileage window where they are usually reported. That is a watch list drawn from other owners, not a prediction about this car.
How to use the three columns. The left column is the list to hand a mechanic before you buy, and to check the service history for if you already own the car. The middle column is what to budget for this year. The right column is not a reprieve — it is a reminder that a used car has a bill schedule, and this is roughly where it falls. All of it is drawn from 311 owner complaints about this exact model year, not from a maintenance manual. How the percentiles are computed.
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed