Other wheel or tire problem on the 2005 Toyota Prius
Only 6 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.
When other wheel or tire problem gets reported
There are 8 reports of other wheel or tire problem on the 2005 Toyota Prius, 6 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 60,000 miles. It is the 29th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 16,500 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 $200–$1,500 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 14 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2017, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2011 at 45,000 miles.
By volume the 2001 carries the most reports, with 28; the 2005 has 8. 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.
Bulges have appeared in the sidewalls of two of the four goodyear potenza tires on our 2005 toyota prius. I can provide photos. The tires were maintained by having them rotated and pressure checked at 5,000-mile intervals by the toyota dealer. The car has been driven only on paved streets and roads. Current mileage on the car is 13,000. I have elected to replace all four tires with michelins. *jb
While driving my 2005 toyota prius, the rear passenger wheel became so loose it was causing the car to vibrate and shake. I thought it was a flat tire, pulled off of the freeway I was driving on onto the shoulder. There was no flat, pulled off at the next exit into a garage. My husband, whom I called by cell, told me that it was a loose wheel probably. The garage mechanic raised the car in the air and the wheel was ready to fall off. He checked over the wheel, etc, re-tightened the wheel, and found that all of the wheels were loose, but none this badly. The last time the wheels were off was in april and had not been checked after that for tightness. As I looked in the owners manual it says to check them every 1000 miles or so. This is a very dangerous situation. This information should be in bold print and pointed out to every new owner the importance of checking the tightness, if this is a consistent problem. I was lucky! It scared me a lot and I am nervous when driving the car now. If this is a common problem, it needs to be addressed with emphasis! *jb
Prius tire wear - goodyear integrity tires have worn to the point of "recommended" replacement at 20000 miles. Toyota customer experience center & dealer claim that prius tires "wear faster than most cars"... I have not heard of a 50,000 mile tire lasting only 20,000 miles - toyota should be forced to investigate why the prius ruins tires so quickly. Consumer affairs also is taking complaints on prius tire wear. *jb
Also reported on the 2005 Toyota Prius
Headlight failure or clouding
Other brake problem
Other lighting problem
Other electrical problem
Other speed control problem
Loss of braking
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 8 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 8 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 wheel or tire problem happen on the 2005 Toyota Prius?
Across 6 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 15,000 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 wheel or tire problem on the 2005 Toyota Prius?
8 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