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Harsh or jerky shifting on the 2017 Toyota Corolla

Only 0 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 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $600–$4,000
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 35th

When harsh or jerky shifting gets reported

There are 1 report of harsh or jerky shifting on the 2017 Toyota Corolla. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 35th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $600–$4,000 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.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 3 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 1,500 miles, and latest on the 2005 at 95,000 miles.

By volume the 2005 carries the most reports, with 8; the 2017 has 0. 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. 2005 Toyota Corolla harsh or jerky shifting 95k
  2. 2006 Toyota Corolla harsh or jerky shifting 89k
  3. 2008 Toyota Corolla harsh or jerky shifting 40k
  4. 2014 Toyota Corolla harsh or jerky shifting
    no odometer readings given
    —
  5. 2017 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  6. 2020 Toyota Corolla harsh or jerky shifting 2k

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

Also reported on the 2017 Toyota Corolla

Cruise control failure

22 reports median 2k

CVT failure

16 reports median 815

Other electrical problem

15 reports median 17k

Other brake problem

14 reports median 4k

Airbag failed to deploy in a crash

12 reports median 60k

Other speed control problem

10 reports median 9k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report 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 1 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.

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