Other fuel system problem on the 2006 Toyota Corolla
1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 10 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other fuel system problem gets reported
Owners of the 2006 Toyota Corolla report other fuel system problem at a median of 50,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 40,000 miles and a quarter after 60,000 miles, from 8 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 90,000 miles. It is the 18th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 20,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 95,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 75,287 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
25% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18,813 miles | 40,431 miles | 49,500 miles | 57,500 miles | 94,100 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
Of these reports, 1 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $300–$2,200 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 21 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2016, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2014 at 145,000 miles.
By volume the 2019 carries the most reports, with 27; the 2006 has 10. 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.
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 2006 toyota corolla ce would not stop when I exited off I-5 at the 128th st exit near millcreek wa. The engine was racing and I floored the brake and threw the car into neutral to avoid a huge crash into the vehicles in front of me. I bought the car new in 2006 and the computer has had to have two replacements. The car would not run without warning and has had to be towed. I am fearful of my safety and that of my passengers in this vehicle and have had little explanation at the dealership except that this is 'rare'. The dealership told me to take the mats out of the driver's side of the car altogether, but I'm positive the failure to stop had nothing to do with stuck mats. This all seems connected to the problem I've had from the very beginning with the car's computer failures. *tr
Throttle body has shot down unexpectedly right on the middle of on the road. The car has been fully disabled since gas did not go to the engine. Occur for first time. Throttle body has been replaced by taking from used car. Master say it just stopped to function. *tr
I have owned my 2006 toyota corolla s with a 5-speed manual transmission since july 2006. In that time I have had approximately 5 incidences when the engine raced unexpectedly. This has always occurred when I had the clutch depressed and was braking. I have thought that my right foot, which I intended to be on the center of the brake pedal, was actually on the side of the brake pedal such that it simultaneously contacted the accelerator pedal. This explanation is problematic in that even with the brake pedal fully depressed, it is still higher than the accelerator pedal. The only way I could be depressing both the brake pedal and the accelerator pedal at the same time is for my foot to be twisted and off center at the same time. Maybe this is possible, I don't know. What usually happens is that the engine races(maybe 4000 to 5000 RPM) but since the clutch is already depressed and my foot is on the brake, the car does not speed up. Usually the engine only races for a second or two and I don't know how it gets settled down--maybe I reposition my foot a little--I don't know what happens because it is always unexpected and happens so…
Also reported on the 2006 Toyota Corolla
Airbag inflator rupture
Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure
Other speed control problem
Other engine problem
Other electrical problem
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 10 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 fuel system problem happen on the 2006 Toyota Corolla?
Across 8 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 50,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 40,000 miles and a quarter after 60,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other fuel system problem on the 2006 Toyota Corolla?
10 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 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