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2013 TOYOTA COROLLA — Complaint #1461936

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NHTSA Complaint about SEATS:MID/REAR ASSEMBLY filed April 16, 2018

NHTSA complaint #1461936 (ODI reference 11088351) concerns a 2013 TOYOTA COROLLA and was filed on April 16, 2018. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 30, 2018. The vehicle had 70,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Massachusetts based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seats:mid/rear assembly, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same TOYOTA COROLLA cohort independently describe similar seats:mid/rear assembly failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2013 TOYOTA COROLLA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2013 TOYOTA COROLLA
Component
SEATS:MID/REAR ASSEMBLY
State
Massachusetts
Mileage
70,000 mi

Complaint Description

THE REAR SEAT WAS ALWAYS TOUGH TO GET IT TO STAY LOCKED IN PLACE AFTER FOLDING THE SEAT DOWN. AT 70,000 MILES, ONE HALF OF THE 60/40 SEAT WOULD NOT STAY LOCKED IN POSITION, AFTER BEING FOLDED DOWN. ACCORDING TO THE DEALER, THE WHOLE SEAT LOCKING MECHANISM NEEDS TO BE REPLACED AT A COST OF $300. FURTHERMORE, THE PART IS ON A 'NATIONAL BACKORDER', AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHEN THIS PART WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR INSTALLATION. I FEEL THAT THIS IS A PART THAT SHOULD LAST WELL BEYOND THE USEFUL LIFE OF THE VEHICLE, AND IS A VERY ODD PART TO FAIL. THIS PART HAS BEEN TROUBLE FOR SOME TIME, AND FAILED WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS STATIONARY, BUT MEANS I CAN'T HAVE ANYONE IN THE AFFECTED PART OF THE REAR OF THE VEHICLE, UNTIL THIS PART IS REPLACED.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1461936
ODI Number 11088351
Date Filed April 16, 2018
Failure Date March 30, 2018
VIN 2T1BU4EEXDC

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.