Toyota Solara: problems, complaints, bulletins

Summary for the Toyota Solara across 2 model years: 3 owner complaints and 0 NHTSA service bulletins, plus repair videos. Pick a year for details.

Model years

Year	Owner complaints	involving a crash	Technical service bulletins (TSB)	YouTube repair videos
1998	1	1	0	0
1997	2	1	0	0

What fails most often

1 Air bags 67% of all complaints
2 Visibility 33% of all complaints

Circle size and colour show each component’s share of NHTSA complaints. Schematic only, not a drawing of the exact model.

Air bags: 2 complaints (67% of all), 2 of them with a crash reported by the owner.
Visibility: 1 complaints (33% of all).

Symptoms owners describe

How many of the 3 NHTSA complaints mention each symptom (automatic count from complaint text; one complaint can mention several).

airbags did not deploy2 · 67%
windows, sunroof1 · 33%

Components owners complain about

Component	Owner complaints	involving a crash	Technical service bulletins (TSB)
Air bags	2	2	0
Visibility	1	0	0

What owners report

Short excerpts of NHTSA complaints in the original wording. These are owner statements not verified by NHTSA; personal data removed.

Upon impact, both frontal air bags and side air bags did not deploy. Driver and two passengers sustained injuries and were taken by ambulance to hospital.
Air bags · 1998 · crash · 2004-03-22 · NHTSA complaint #10063571
The vehicle was involved in a frontal collision and the driver air bag failed to deploy.
Air bags · 1997 · crash · 2003-02-20 · NHTSA complaint #10008929
When shutting passenger's side door window shattered. Glass fell inside of vehicle,cut seat, and did some damage to outside of vehicle. Contacted dealer, and dealer stated did not understand how this happened. Please add vin.
Visibility · 1997 · 2001-10-02 · NHTSA complaint #897196

When owners complained

NHTSA complaints by filing year. The peak shows at what age the problems show up most.

20011
20031
20041

What to check before buying

Air bags. Check the SRS light, stored codes and airbag/curtain status after any impact.
Visibility. Wipers, mirrors, defrosters, cracked glass.

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Sources: public NHTSA data (USA): service bulletins and owner complaints; YouTube: links to videos credited to their authors. Complaints are owner statements not verified by NHTSA, and describe defects rather than crash damage. Data updated 2026-11-05.