Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full
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Our database holds 5 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 1987 Toyota Celica. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
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STEERING WHEEL LOCKED AND THE BRAKES LOCKED WHILE DRIVING THE VEHICLE DOWN A HILL. CONSUMER DOWN SHIFTED, AND WAS ABLE TO PULL OFF THE ROAD. CONSUMER HAD THE VEHICLE TOWED TO THE DEALERSHIP, AND THE DEALER WAS UNABLE TO DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM. *AK
WHILE CONTROLLING THE PASSENGER'S WINDOW ELECTRONICALLY THE PASSENGER'S DOOR OPENS WIDE UNEXPECTEDLY. IF THE OCCUPANT WAS NOT SEAT BELTED, THE OCCUPANT MAY FALL OUT. *AK VEHICLE DOOR OPENS WHEN PUTTING THE WINDOW DOWN VEHICLE UNSAFE TO OPERATE AT THIS TIME. *YH
TRAVELING SOUTH ON THE INTERSTATE, DRIVER PRESSED THE ACCELERATOR FULLY DOWN TO PASS ANOTHER CAR WHEN THE ACCELERATOR STUCK, CAUSING VEHICLE TO ACCELERATE. WHEN STANDING ON THE BRAKES THE VEHICLE STILL ACCELERATED. THE DRIVER FINALLY TURNED THE IGNITION OFF, COMING TO A COMPLETE STOP, THE DRIVER RESTARTED THE CAR AND FINALLY ACCELERATOR BECAME UNSTUCK. *AK
THE VEHICLE WAS REAR ENDED AND THE DRIVERS SEATBACK COLLAPSED. *AK
HAD TO REPLACE THE TRANSMISSION TWO TIMES. TT
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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