CarComplaints.com Notes: Beware of the NHTSA complaint data for the 2005 Camry. It is almost certainly misleading.
The problem with NHTSA data for the 2005 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 Toyota 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 2005 Camry, our data for the Camry is a far more statistically accurate representation of the Camry's reliability than what the NHTSA data shows.
HEAVY SMOKE WHEN STARTING IN MORNING, CATALYTIC CODE, NO SMOKE AFTER STARTUP...REMOVED HEAD, MACHINED ENGINE AT SHOP, REPLACED GASKETS, REPLACED VALVE GUIDES...SMOKING STOPPED, BUT ENGINE STRTED LEAKING OIL FROM HEAD GASKET AREA ON FRONT ENGINE AND SIDES...MACHINE SHOP SAID REPLACE BOLTS EITHER STRIPPED OR STRTCHED BOLTS, REMOVED HEAD, REPLACED BOLTS AND HEAD GASKET, ENGINE CONTINUES TO LEAK OIL. ONLY 103,000 MILES...MACHINE SHOP WORKS FOR Toyota SAYS COMMON PROBLEM FOR TOYOTA CAMRY 2.4 ENGINES. SHAME ON TOYOTA...WHAT NEXT?
- Alfredo S.,
Upland, CA, US
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- wborenva, Yorktown, VA, US