2007 Toyota Camry
Complaints about this year name abs far more often than the other years of this generation — 12% of them, about 3× the usual rate of 3.9%.
First year of a new generation. The Toyota Camry was redesigned for 2007. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 3,613 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 389 |
| Involving a crash | 314 |
| Involving a fire | 71 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- abs — 17.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.8% across the other years of this generation (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: abs, vsc, check vsc, actuator.
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.
Also unusual this year
- vsc — 8% of complaints, 5× usual
What owners wrote
CHECK VSC SYSTEM COMES ON, THE BRAKE BECOMES VERY HARD AND LIGHTS SUCH AS ABS AND OTHERS COME UP ON THE DASHBOARD WHILE IN MOTION.
FAULTY ABS CONTROLLER AFFECTING EVERYTHING FROM THE BATTERY CHARGING, AC, ABS AND VSC CONTROL SYSTEM WORSE CASE CAUSING BRAKES TO FAIL.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V689000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 14V743000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V396000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 12V491000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 09V388000 VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 10V035000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 10V036000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 10V017000 VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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