Scion · vehicle model
Scion FR-S
235 NHTSA complaints and 12 safety recalls across model years 2013–2016.
- Complaints
- 235
- Recalls
- 12
- Model years
- 4
The verdict
The Scion FR-S pairs above-average complaint volume with 12 recalls (heavily recalled).
- 23rd pctile
- complaint volume, US models
- 12
- recall campaigns
Scion FR-S vs. all tracked models
Total NHTSA ODI complaints across models with substantive safety data
235 Higher than most more complaints than 77% of 3,088 models
tracked vehicle models, bucketed by value
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Source NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation · August 2026
The ScionFR-S appears in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database with 235 consumer safety complaints and 12 recall campaigns across 4 model years (2013–2016). That averages roughly 59 complaints per model year. Report counts can differ between model years for many reasons; this dataset does not establish the cause of a difference.
Complaint volume on a nameplate alone is not a reliability verdict: a long-running bestseller can accumulate more filings than a low-volume niche model because more vehicles are on the road. The table below shows report counts and published NHTSA crash-test ratings side by side for each model year. The filing-year histogram shows the timing of submitted reports, not a causal trend.
NHTSA has 1 investigation file tied to this model. Investigation records, complaint reports, and recall campaigns each provide different context. Use the official NHTSA VIN lookup and the underlying notices to research a specific vehicle; PlainCars does not infer a vehicle-risk or pricing conclusion from these records.
Complaints by Year
Complaint Filing Trend
NHTSA complaint volume by year filed (not model year).
Filings moved from 168 in 2017-2021 to 29 in 2022-2026, a fall of 82.7%. That is the 12th percentile of change across the 763 nameplates with enough filings in both windows to compare, where 0 is the steepest fall and 100 the steepest rise.
Filing volume, not a reliability verdict: counts also move with how many vehicles are on the road, how old they are, and whether a recall drew attention. Computed from this portal's NHTSA filing-year records over the same two windows the trend rankings use.
Year filed (bar labels show the complaint count).
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Data sources
Data vintage: August 2026. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. Scion FR-S totals are aggregated from the linked NHTSA model-year rows; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.