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Vehicle history — accidents, title & owners
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2T1BU40E69C••••••2009 Toyota COROLLA
This build draws 1.9× more complaints than the average 2009 Toyota COROLLA build (26 vs 14).
26on this build
1276on the model
92builds in total
8involved a crash
5injuries
Most reportedAir Bags 13Vehicle Speed Control 6Steering 4Service Brakes 2
What owners of this build wrote
StructurecrashMay 2016
I was in the parking lot trying to turn around when my car accelerators and crashes into mi rancho restaurant in silver spring, maryland. This is the second incident with this type of issue . The first time was december 4, 2011 in giant parking lot as I was parking it…
Vehicle Speed ControlcrashJun 2010
My vehicle, a toyota corolla 2009 had worked without problems up until june 22, 2010. Two recall bulletins required work to be performed by toyota to prevent potential sudden unintended acceleration (sua). The first one was done february 22, 2010 (fp 78112-07050) and the second…
Air BagscrashApr 2010
My wife was recently in an accident while driving a 2009 toyota corolla in princeton nj. She mentioned that she stopped at the stop sign and presumably tried to move forward a bit so that she can see the traffic on the main road, to make a right turn and next thing she realized…
Service BrakescrashMar 2010
The contact owns a 2009 toyota corolla. The contact stated that while driving at speeds of 45 mph in rainy weather conditions and depressing the brake pedal, the brakes would not engage. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer nevertheless; the failure could not be…
Parking BrakecrashJul 2009
Please I need somebody to help me with my case with toyota. I had an accident back to july in my toyota corolla 2009. I hit someone house with my toyota because (accelerator and pedal were stuck and I lost the control of the car. I didn't know what went wrong not only I'm a…
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Decoded via NHTSA vPIC. Recalls, complaints and safety from NHTSA; MPG from EPA fueleconomy.gov. Full history reports from our partner. VIN 2T1BU40E69C137690 · decoded Aug 2026. — ForCar Reviewed by Denis Kataev, founder of ForCar.