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.
It was a scary situation. Luckily I was able to stop vehicle befor an accident happened . Not the first time this happened. I'm worried it may happen again and I wont be so lucky and get into an accident. Very scary thought.
I was sitting in the car when my wife came out of the store and got into the it. I put my foot on the brake and started the car. It took off at a very high rate of speed. The car lunged ahead and steadily picked up speed. The car hit a lady walking with her groceries, then hit a parked vehicle and pushed it into another vehicle. The air bag never deployed. The brakes would not work. The only thing that made it stop was that it hit a large SUV. My wife did not have time to fasten her seat belt, thus sustaining injuries. It all happened in a matter of seconds. There was a police report filed. I was not charged with the accident.
I purchased the vehicle on May 24, 2017 at a public auction in Washington, DC. That means that these vehicles are still being sold as if there is not a problem with them. The vehicle had about 240,000 miles when I purchased it. When we checked the internet, we found that there were hundreds of complaints. BEWARE!!!
Thought unintended acceleration might be a myth. Parallel parking car, foot on brake (thank God) and loud acceleration occurred, car moved forward, more pressure on brake and shifted to "Park" and it stopped.
Scary.
Fearful of driving car now.
- donmarfln,
Battle Ground, IN, US
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It was a scary situation. Luckily I was able to stop vehicle befor an accident happened . Not the first time this happened. I'm worried it may happen again and I wont be so lucky and get into an accident. Very scary thought.
- Marc F., Spring Hill, FL, FL, US