2015 Toyota Camry
This year drew an ordinary 268 complaints for a Toyota Camry — the model's median is 435. What they were about is the unusual part: 36.9% of them mention steering, against 10.8% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the Toyota Camry, which began in 2012 and ran to 2017. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 268 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 435 |
| Involving a crash | 32 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 26.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- steering — 36.9% of this year's complaints, against 10.8% across the other years of this generation (3.4×).
- pulls — 9% of this year's complaints, against 0.7% across the other years of this generation (13.3×). Owners wrote it as: pulls, pulls left, car pulls, after starting.
- wheel — 18.7% of this year's complaints, against 7.4% across the other years of this generation (2.5×).
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
CAR PULLS EITHER LEFT OR RIGHT. WHEN MAKING A TURN STEERING WHEEL DOES NOT RETURN. THE CAR JUST KEEPS TURNING. THIS HAS HAPPENED ON VERY LOW SPEEDS OR SPEEDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH. I BELIEVE THIS IS A SENSOR PROBLEM, ALTERNATOR PROBLEM OR SOMETHING INVOLVING THE TOW…
STEERING INTERMITTENTLY PULLS THE DRIVING WHEEL TO THE LEFT. SOMETIMES DOES AND OTHERS NO.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V144000 STEERING 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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