Other speed control problem on the 2010 Toyota Corolla
46 crashes 1 fire 20 injuries 67 of the 153 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 speed control problem gets reported
Owners of the 2010 Toyota Corolla report other speed control problem at a median of 6,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 2,000 miles and a quarter after 21,000 miles, from 123 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 78,000 miles. It is the 3rd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 300 miles at the tenth percentile to 60,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 59,503 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
Reports bunched into a band this tight usually mean the component has a life of its own: it goes at roughly the same mileage regardless of who owns it.
80% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 287 miles | 2,000 miles | 6,000 miles | 20,675 miles | 59,790 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, 46 a crash, 1 a fire and 20 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 $250–$2,000 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.
This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 23 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2010, at a median of 6,000 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 130,000 miles.
By volume the 2009 carries the most reports, with 163; the 2010 has 153. 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.
Driving a rental 2010 corolla in tucson. As I was braking to a stop at traffic light, the car suddenly surged ahead. Fortunately I was far enough from the vehicle stopped in front of me to stand hard on the brake and bring the car to a stop. Scary!!. Floor mats were properly secured and no where near the pedal area. Never experienced anything like this before. Toyota has a problem way beyond floor mats. *tr
In november of 2009 I purchased a new toyota corolla sport and within 2 days noticed the tachometer racing even when the car was in neutral. I also noticed that when I would take my foot off the gas and press in the clutch the tachometer would accelerate as much as 2000 RPM and stay there. I have taken my car back to the toyota dealership where it was purchased three times in 2009 and once in 2010 regarding unexplained acceleration. Even when I am not in the car and the car is idling all of a sudden the engine suddenly accelerates from .6 on the tachometer to 6.4 on the tachometer. The dealership says they can't replicate the issues and have advised me not to drive the car. When I took the vehicle in the last time I had 5 recording on my cell phone where you can clearly see the tachometer over 6,000rpm with no one in the vehicle. They have told me they can't help me at this time. I am concerned about how long this action will take as I need my car. *tr
Toyota corolla le 2010 did not respond to brakes properly for 100 feet when slowing from 10 MPH at intersection. Road was slightly damp but not frozen or slippery. Abs & vsc lights went on brakes ground so loudly as I applied more pressure, it sounded as though they'd break off. 2 toyota service depts have dismissed my concerns saying the roads must have been worse than I thought. I've been driving for 35 years and have never experienced this kind of out of control vehicle. I believe there is something in the chip or software or complete brake/vsc/gas pedal combo. Very concerned toyota gas pedal fix is not the complete culprit. *tr
Also reported on the 2010 Toyota Corolla
Other steering problem
Airbag inflator rupture
Other brake problem
Other electrical problem
Other body or interior problem
Loss of braking
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 153 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 speed control problem happen on the 2010 Toyota Corolla?
Across 123 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 6,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 2,000 miles and a quarter after 21,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other speed control problem on the 2010 Toyota Corolla?
153 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 1.2 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