10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
2 / 1
Injuries / Deaths:
3 / 0
Average Mileage:
87,000 miles

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problem #2

Sep 072018

tC

  • 72,000 miles
After a front end collision with another vehicle, the drivers steering wheel and knee airbags deployed properly. The drivers seat belt tensioned the drivers seatbelt but ignited a fire in drivers side trim behind the door pillar. The fire melted the interior trim panels and surrounding plastic parts.

- Mason, OH, USA

problem #1

Sep 182017

tC

  • 102,000 miles
My daughter and son were in an accident as a passenger in a Scion Tc 2009 and the car rolled multiple times and both the front and back passenger seat belts unlatched and the passenger curtain airbag did not deploy or inflate. With these defects, my daughters legs were trapped under the car and sustained traumatic bone damage in which her prognosis at this time is unknown. Her left ankle, the talus, fibula, and tibia were crushed. Currently she had an ex fix on her left leg and two plates and pins placed on her fibula, the physicians say she will never walk the same and she currently is unable to bear any weight on either foot due to the fracutes sustained from her being ejected from the car because of the seatbelt release and the failure of deployment of the side curtain air bag.

- Cayce, SC, USA