CarComplaints.com Notes: Beware of the NHTSA complaint data for the 2004 Camry. It is almost certainly misleading.
The problem with NHTSA data for the 2004 Camry is that for months on end, the news media repeatedly told the public that several Toyota models had an unintended acceleration defect, & to go to safercar.gov (the NHTSA's website) to file a complaint.
So, the NHTSA received a disproportionate number of complaints about unintended acceleration issues because of the national news media attention, to the point where their data is unreliable taken in context with any other vehicle that did not receive national news attention.
CarComplaints.com typically receives more complaints per day about vehicles than the NHTSA does, but the news media did not repeatedly say "go to CarComplaints.com to report your Camry acceleration problems" like they did about the NHTSA -- so although we have less complaint data than the NHTSA for the 2004 Camry, our data for the Camry is a far more statistically accurate representation of the Camry's reliability than what the NHTSA data shows.
8.0
pretty bad
Typical Repair Cost:
No data
Average Mileage:
86,000 miles
Total Complaints:
1 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
replace the front passenger seat cushion (1 reports)
The airbag alert first went off in 2008, and the dealership said that someone must have bumped into the car and set it off. Then it went off again in October 2013, and I took it back to the dealership. They said that one of the wires from the system to the passenger seat was loose because of something placed under the seat must have hit it. This isn't possible - I don't put things under the seats of my cars - ever.
Then a week after I took it to them, it went off again. Now they say that the seat cushion has to be replaced, and that sometimes this happens. Really? Perhaps this was what happened in 2008 when the car was still under warranty...
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The airbag alert first went off in 2008, and the dealership said that someone must have bumped into the car and set it off. Then it went off again in October 2013, and I took it back to the dealership. They said that one of the wires from the system to the passenger seat was loose because of something placed under the seat must have hit it. This isn't possible - I don't put things under the seats of my cars - ever.
Then a week after I took it to them, it went off again. Now they say that the seat cushion has to be replaced, and that sometimes this happens. Really? Perhaps this was what happened in 2008 when the car was still under warranty...
- Dawn G., Tinton Falls, NJ, US