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Other visibility problem on the 2000 Toyota Corolla

Only 2 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 6
With an odometer reading 2
Reports per 1,000 built 10.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $150–$1,400
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 9th

When other visibility problem gets reported

There are 6 reports of other visibility problem on the 2000 Toyota Corolla, 2 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 9th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 2 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 51,500 miles — —

Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.

What a percentile can and cannot tell you here

These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.

What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.

Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $150–$1,400 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 20 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2015, at a median of 200 miles, and latest on the 1999 at 80,000 miles.

By volume the 2004 carries the most reports, with 26; the 2000 has 6. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 1996 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  2. 1997 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  3. 1998 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  4. 1999 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 82k
  5. 2000 (this one) 52k
  6. 2001 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 60k
  7. 2002 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 80k
  8. 2003 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 54k
  9. 2004 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 49k
  10. 2005 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 37k
  11. 2006 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  12. 2007 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 45k
  13. 2008 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 38k
  14. 2009 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 8k
  15. 2010 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 58k
  16. 2011 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 44k
  17. 2012 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 8k
  18. 2013 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 10k
  19. 2014 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 8k
  20. 2015 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 178
  21. 2016 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 8k
  22. 2017 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 14k
  23. 2018 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 1k
  24. 2019 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 6k
  25. 2020 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 3k
  26. 2021 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  27. 2022 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem 69k
  28. 2023 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  29. 2024 Toyota Corolla other visibility problem
    no odometer readings given
    —

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

What owners wrote

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.

Tl*the contact owns a 2000 toyota corolla. The contact stated that the power windows are inoperative. As a consequence he was unable to control the window devices. The dealer was notified of the failure, but the cause of the failures were unknown. The failure mileage was 60,000. The vehicle identification number was unavailable. The current mileage was 64,000.

60,000 miles NHTSA complaint 737707 filed 2009-09-30

Dt: consumer states that when he went to wash the vehicle the windshield fractured and cracked. This occurred on july 7, 2005. Consumer contacted the manufacturer and was told vehicle was no longer under warranty, and they did not know why it happened.*ak

43,000 miles NHTSA complaint 543005 filed 2005-07-07

Also reported on the 2000 Toyota Corolla

Other engine problem

23 reports median 67k

Excessive oil consumption

19 reports median 58k

Seat belt or retractor failure

12 reports median 92k

Other body or interior problem

11 reports median 74k

Airbag failed to deploy in a crash

9 reports median 29k

Other wheel or tire problem

9 reports median 155k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 6 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 6 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

Questions this page answers

At what mileage does other visibility problem happen on the 2000 Toyota Corolla?

Across 2 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 50,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other visibility problem on the 2000 Toyota Corolla?

6 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 10.0 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

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