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The contact owns a 2000 Toyota Camry le. While driving 65 mph, the contact heard a loud noise underneath the hood of the vehicle. The contact drove onto the emergency lane and noticed oil leaking from the engine. Neither the dealer or manufacturer were contacted. The contact diagnosed that the strip head bolt needed to be replaced. The failure and current mileage was 45,000. The VIN was unavailable.
I have followed all maintenance requirements on my 2000 Toyota Camry and recently the engine blew on a trip to the beach. I was passing a slow moving vehicle on the alligator river bridge about 28 miles from nags head, nc. At the time I did not observe any red lights on the dashboard indicating a problem. I heard a loud bang, then the oil light came on and the car was making a funny noise. I could not stop on the bridge so I immediately pulled over when I left the bridge. The first thing I checked was the engine oil. It was completely dry. I found a house nearby and they gave me two quarts of oil to put in the car. They told me a gas station was 15 miles away. The car ran fine below 35 mph and made a little noise. Above 35mph it made a loud noise and the oil light came on. I made it to nags head and the next day I took the car to a car repair center. They notified me afterwards that the engine was blown and the engine compartment was completely filled with a thick sludge. I have read the past information on these problems and believe it was due to an engine sludge build up. I was also amazed that I did not see any oil warning light prior to the problem. I would like the manufacturer to correct by replacing or rebuilding the engine.
Engine caught on fire and car was declared totaled. I was driving in my neighborhood when I smelled horrible burning odor. I put window down to see if someone was burning brush outside. Once window was down, smoke started to pour into driver's compartment, and then I saw the smoke from under the hood of the engine. I immediately pulled onto side street, shut off car, grabbed purse and keys, and ran. Person in street told me car was on fire, which I hadn't been able to see, because the flames were pouring out from under the engine onto the street. I ran and called 911 from cell phone. Two fire trucks came within 5 minutes, and it took them 20 minutes to put out the fire. The engine was totally melted down. I could have died as a result of fumes or being burned and was lucky I wasn't on a highway at high speeds.
2000 Camry, V6, le - check engine light came on and would not go off. Was told it was probably because of filling the gas too much. The light stayed on over two years and I had to have the "sensor" replaced. It was only about five months ago when I had this replaced - and again the check engine light has came on and will not shut off. My car has almost 150,000 miles but the check engine light started having problems back around 50,000. I also had problems with backend clunking noises, and my front wheels clicked, and now the brakes squeak like crazy (and have for over two years). Every time I have the car looked at, and it has been by the dealers and authorized repair stations, they are unable to fix the problem. As for the check engine light - it cost me over $400 for repair - and now after only about 5 months, I guess I'll have to pay it again.
05-23-2008 at 5:35pm my car was severe damaged B/C of sa at near completed stop in the parking space-parking lot of po 90027 during daylight&normal weather cond.I am an original owner- 24,000miles. Aaa replaced battery 04-17-08-circuit/amper recorded;all parts are original Toyota. The parking lot PO90027 is narrow U-turn, was parking at the entrance. Halfway in the parking space=2' before the parking concrete guard=heard a pop sound, car flew over the parking guard&sidewalk curb into the brick wall of po, ricocheted&stopped 1'away. Heavy white smoke came out from the hood at the windshield, deployed airbags w/terrible heat, windshield cracked at the airbags heat/touch points-a burn skin on my left arm through 2thick clothing, engine was running! pull out key, got out from car B/C expected exposion/fire.instantly 2postal empl.came out to help, checked po brick wall, asked my name-handled them my parcel w/prepaid postage-name/address.killing attempt was total 5-6'-not enough for the fatal force, my foot was pressing parking pedal, already w/unbuckled seatbelt-my right knee has only a bump-not fractured. 20'later my car half sitting on the sidewalk-smoke is gone, sml leak under hood/radiator? started car, w/withness slowly reversed it frm sidewalk/guard-car was conrolled fine despite of deployed airbags-pushed wipers/washer, drove back home/underground garage-1 mile w/2-3 stops. Recalled that a week ago had sa w/out pressing pedal, happened on sunset blvd, got surprised w/high speed so slow down. Both times the distance before sa was 1mile frm the start, time~5min.this is engine control malfunction.05-24-08 at 4 pm went to hollywood Toyota-asked for service person in charge-referred to patrick.earlier rcvd Toyota gel notice w/my vn, was told by patrick to have the body fixed first.after the bodyjob bring my car for the engine check $99/hourly pls help to fully investigate this accident-live in la w/heavy traffic.thanks god did not kill anybody.thank you for your cooperation.
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
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The car has 77000 miles on it. Vehicle was well maintained. I took the car to dealer the car for maintenance once in 4000 - 5000 miles. When I was driving at 55 on the freeway I heard a big sound and saw the smoke was coming out from the front panel. I pulled over the car and opened the front panel. I saw fire from two different places. I checked it with my mechanic, and he told me that the connectivity rod #2 came out very next to the oil filter which caused the engine to blew up. I called Toyota and filed the complaint. But Toyota representative told me that they won't replace the engine. The car was bought from the dealer shop, and the dealer was responsible for selling the defective car. I got a defective engine and forced replace it on my own.
I have a 2000 Toyota Camry that has had four engine coil packs fail in a 2 year period. The last time two out of three coil packs failed simultaneously. Luckily I was not on the highway the last time this happened because I could not get the car to shift out of first gear and it would not go faster than 20 mph. The failure occured as I was trying to park my vehicle and the entire engine and car shook as soon as I put the car in reverse and continued to shake as I put it into drive. The first and second times I experienced the coil pack failures (both single failures) I was driving on the freeway and could not get the vehicle to accelerate beyond 35 mph. I had to put my emergency flashers on until I was able to get the vehicle off of the freeway and to a service station.
The Camry [xxx] I bought the car in August 2000 engine prematurely wearing out, giving out loud rattling and knocking noises, even the car is only 5.5 years old with 95000 pampered highway miles on it. I was really surprised that the car with less than 6 years of drive, and being well maintained, the engine could be of such inferior quality. It is totally opposite of my expectation when I first made the decision to buy this car. I was banking on the high quality of the car, the durability. Even dealership and Toyota experienced technician admit that the car had been taken good care of, they are all surprised that the Camry less than 100,000 miles would have such problem. All that they are saying is that I did not have good luck, it may well be 1 bad apple out of 1000 good ones, but I got it. All I want to say bad apple is bad apple. It is not 1 out of 1000; it is 1 out of 1 for me. Toyota sales promoted the Camry with false and misleading statement by saying Camry in average can run flawlessly for 200000 miles, based on the trust and perception of high quality of the car, I bought it, I paid high interest of 8.9%, pampered my car, the engine is still prematurely wearing out. Toyota refuse to correct the obvious manufacturers defect, even though the engine had been diagnosed by Toyota doctor in tualatin or, and beaverton Toyota experienced technician, they both agreed the car had been taken good care of, and the problem is manufacture defect. Toyota customer service simply gave me a blunt answer "tough luck" they need to recall my car, repair it at Toyota's expense, Toyota should apologize for such inferior quality of the car, should apologize for its denial of corre for Toyota CEO's comments on Toyota's commitment to quality, please click the following video link www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/01/09/automobiles/20060109_toyota_audioss.html. information redacted pursuant to the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6)
Toyota Camry with 4 cylinder engine, 2000 should have been covered under sludge policy suddenly seized throwing a rod through the engine block at highway speed. Toyata is refusing to fix due to unable to provide 5 documented oil changes due to husband doing most routine maintenance. Refusing to provide documentation stating documentation requirements.
While driving 65 mph check engine light appeared on the dashboard and remained on. Suddenly, the vehicle stalled. Driver was not able to restart vehicle, and had it towed to a dealer for inspection. Mechanic determined that the engine needed to be replaced.
Team Toyota was very unresponsive; alleged owner neglect. Oil light came on and immediately slung a rod, no notice nothing. They told me is was sludge although it didn't take them long to make that determination. They couldn't have checked very far because the mechanic that replaced the motot (not a Toyota mechanic) said there was little to no sludge there. I received a letter from Toyota discussing oil gelling this month (July 2002). Maybe they've been having too many owner neglect cases with blown motors!
The SE V6 engine is exibiting a rough idle at start, and when stopped. I was advised to clean the throttle boody and injectiors. This did nothing but waste my money. I am begining to believe its sludge or a misaligned camshaft
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- Camarillo, CA, USA