2006 Toyota Camry
This year drew an ordinary 435 complaints for a Toyota Camry — the model's median is 389. What they were about is the unusual part: 16.6% of them mention solara, against 1.4% across the model's other years.
Last year of its generation. This Toyota Camry ran from 2002 to 2006, 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 | 435 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 389 |
| Involving a crash | 122 |
| Involving a fire | 9 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| EPA combined | 22.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- solara — 16.6% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the model's other years (11.6×). Owners wrote it as: solara, toyota solara, camry solara, solara contact.
- dashboard — 14.5% of this year's complaints, against 5.3% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: dashboard, sticky, cracks, cracked.
- bag — 8.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: bag, air bag, passenger seat, bag light.
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
THE CONTACT OWNS 2006 TOYOTA CAMRY SOLARA. THE CONTACT STATED THE DASHBOARD WAS CRACKED. THE CONTACT WAS CONCERNED SINCE THE AIR BAG WAS LOCATED UNDERNEATH THE DASHBOARD AND COULD DEPLOY. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT INSPECTED BY THE DEALER, BUT THE CONTACT WAS TOLD TH…
DASHBOARD HAS BECOME STICKY AND SHINY. THIS HAS PRODUCED A GLARE MAKING VISIBILITY AN ISSUE. CLEANING DOESN'T HELP.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V743000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V396000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 10V035000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 10V036000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 05V539000 EQUIPMENT
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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