2019 Toyota Camry
This year drew an ordinary 389 complaints for a Toyota Camry — the model's median is 435. What they were about is the unusual part: 27% of them mention transmission, against 9% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 4 of the Toyota Camry, which began in 2018 and ran to 2024. 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 | 389 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 435 |
| Involving a crash | 22 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 32 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- transmission — 27% of this year's complaints, against 9% across the other years of this generation (3×).
- fuel — 15.2% of this year's complaints, against 4.2% across the other years of this generation (3.6×).
- pump — 12.9% of this year's complaints, against 4.8% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: pump, fuel pump, subject, water pump.
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
Vehicle stalled in traffic at an intersection. Several warning lights displayed at the same time and was unable to steer or safely pull to the side of the road. Car would not start until key was removed and restarted. Was very fortunate that traffic was minima…
my vehicle was part of the fuel pump recall for 2019 Camry, after taking it to my local dealer the fuel pump was replaced in January 2021. After driving the vehicle a week or so I noticed the exact same issues were happening again. Stalling at red lights, slug…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V682000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 21V890000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 20V012000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 19V503000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 19V567000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V244000 EQUIPMENT 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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