2017 Toyota Camry
This year drew an ordinary 148 complaints for a Toyota Camry — the model's median is 435. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.1% of them mention determined, against 2% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Toyota Camry ran from 2012 to 2017, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 148 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 435 |
| Involving a crash | 28 |
| Involving a fire | 5 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 25.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- determined — 8.1% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the other years of this generation (4×). Owners wrote it as: determined, failure determined, toyota located, where determined.
- located — 7.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: located, wear, south, carolina.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
VVT -I ENGINE MADE A RATTLE NOISE ON PASSENGER SIDE WHEN YOU DO A COLD START ESPECIALLY FIRST IN THE MORNING, BECAUSE THERE'S NO PRESSURE IN TO THE LOCKING PIN LOCATED INSIDE THE ACTUATOR WHICH CONNECTS TO THE CAMSHAFT, BECAUSE OF THIS THE HOUSING THE IMPUT AN…
HOSES TO THE AIR CONDITIONING UNIT ARE LOCATED IN THE PASSENGER FOOT WELL WHICH CAUSES THEM TO BE KICKED LOOSED AT ANY TIME RESULTING IN THE PASSENGER COMPARTMENT FLOODING WITH REFRIGERANT/COOLANT AND OTHER FLUIDS.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V503000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 16V906000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V295000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Camry was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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