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2003 TOYOTA COROLLA — Complaint #620575

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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AXLE HUBS filed April 16, 2007

NHTSA complaint #620575 (ODI reference 10188019) concerns a 2003 TOYOTA COROLLA and was filed on April 16, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 1, 2007. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:axle hubs, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.

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 power train:axle hubs 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 2003 TOYOTA COROLLA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2003 TOYOTA COROLLA
Component
POWER TRAIN:AXLE HUBS
State
Georgia

Complaint Description

CAR BEGAN MAKING A VERY LOUD NOISE THAT SOUNDED LIKE A SMALL PLANE WITH LOTS OF VIBRATIONS COMING FROM THE REAR OF THE CAR. THOUGHT IT WAS THE TIRES, BUT AFTER REPLACING THE TIRES, THE NOISE REMAINED. TOOK IT INTO TOYOTA DEALER AND WAS INFORMED THAT THE REAR HUBS NEEDED REPLACED. WAS TOLD THAT IF THE HUBS WERE NOT REPLACED THAT THE CAR WOULD LOSE CONTROL. SPENT OVER $1200 ON NEW REAR HUBS. *AK

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 620575
ODI Number 10188019
Date Filed April 16, 2007
Failure Date April 1, 2007

Similar POWER TRAIN:AXLE HUBS Complaints for 2003 TOYOTA COROLLA

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