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.
8.0
pretty bad
Typical Repair Cost:
No data
Average Mileage:
62,000 miles
Total Complaints:
1 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
use gorilla glue and do not close window all the way (1 reports)
It happened at least once a year. Toyota kept gluing the window with silicon and it kept falling into the door. Once the car was out of warranty I did it three, four times too. I used crazy glue, gorilla glue, cement glue, etc. It appears that finally the resolution is to not close the window all the way. For some reason it gets stuck so tight that no matter what glue you use it gets unstuck.
A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
It happened at least once a year. Toyota kept gluing the window with silicon and it kept falling into the door. Once the car was out of warranty I did it three, four times too. I used crazy glue, gorilla glue, cement glue, etc. It appears that finally the resolution is to not close the window all the way. For some reason it gets stuck so tight that no matter what glue you use it gets unstuck.
- biochrism, Palm Harbor, FL, US