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Other driver assistance problem on the 2004 Toyota Corolla

Only 1 report 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 1
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 100%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $250–$1,800
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 16th

When other driver assistance problem gets reported

There are 6 reports of other driver assistance problem on the 2004 Toyota Corolla, 1 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 45,000 miles. It is the 16th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 1 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 23,000 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 $250–$1,800 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 11 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2017, at a median of 1,100 miles, and latest on the 2014 at 175,000 miles.

By volume the 2010 carries the most reports, with 21; the 2004 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. 2000 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 137k
  2. 2003 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 78k
  3. 2004 (this one) 23k
  4. 2005 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 84k
  5. 2006 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 85k
  6. 2007 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 39k
  7. 2008 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  8. 2009 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 33k
  9. 2010 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 78k
  10. 2011 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  11. 2012 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 38k
  12. 2013 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 49k
  13. 2014 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 175k
  14. 2015 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  15. 2016 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 25k
  16. 2017 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 1k
  17. 2018 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 700
  18. 2019 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 2k
  19. 2020 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 17k
  20. 2021 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 6k
  21. 2022 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem 9k
  22. 2023 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  23. 2024 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  24. 2025 Toyota Corolla other driver assistance 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.

My 2004 toyota corrolla seems to be steering improperly. Upon turning the steering wheel to a straight position the whole car seems to swerve and become almost uncontrollable. I have just barely avoided serveral accidents and in wet condtions the problem is worse. I replaced the tires and had them check the alignment on the vehicle and it still continues to be an issue. I took the car to my dealer and was advised that they could not replicate the problem but have had at least four other persons drive the vehicle and they all have commented on the steering/control problem even passengers in the vehicle notice the problem as you can feel it while driving or riding in the vehicle. My dealer also states they did not see any broken or loose parts that would cause the control problem.

23,000 miles NHTSA complaint 542964 filed 2005-07-07

Also reported on the 2004 Toyota Corolla

Other speed control problem

47 reports median 43k

Other engine problem

39 reports median 8k

Airbag inflator rupture

28 reports median 78k

Other visibility problem

26 reports median 49k

Airbag failed to deploy in a crash

19 reports median 43k

Other body or interior problem

18 reports median 60k

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 driver assistance problem happen on the 2004 Toyota Corolla?

Across 1 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 25,000 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 driver assistance problem on the 2004 Toyota Corolla?

6 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.0 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