I have been dealing with the oil consumption issue for the last 8 years. Keeping going back to the Toyota dealership where the car was purchased newly and they advised it's normal to top up every 1000-1200 KM. I'm now at the point where I'm topping up every week and a half. The dealership keeps telling me Toyota Canada has been informed and they will fix my car and needs the go ahead from head office.

I'm very disappointed in Toyota and will never vow to buy another car from them. My Camry SE is my first ever car in my driving history and was really hoping to get at least 10-12 years out of it. At this point it's nine years and I'm frustrated and fed up since nothing or no one is doing anything to help me.

The car is a pleasure to drive, but knowing that it uses a liter every 2000 km is insane, not mention how the environment is being affected.

I am very disappointed with Toyota on the 2.4 L engines oil burning , we also have two Corolla's with the 1.8 L engine, they don't burn or use a drop...Are these two vehicles made by same car maker?!

I would never excepted Toyota to state that oil consumption is normal, that give should all 2.4 L engines owners a badge for vehicle that states that vehicle is dual fuel oil and gas!

My 2007 2.4 litre Camry uses a lot of oil. No smoke or leaks; where does it go? We bought it new and were very happy. The problem crept up rather quickly after 100k miles. The light never came on probably because my son checks and changes it regularly. The Warranty Enhancement program letter brought us back to the dealer and the motor passed the test. We did our own test and kept it honest allowing time for the oil to drain back down and my pictures show the result. The dipstick's upper to lower indicator bars have absolutely no oil level after 1138 miles. I use Penzoil high mileage regular oil now and for our test because synthetic is expensive. It says reduced oil consumption on the container. This consumption is not normal. Maybe for a 1960s 4 cyl after 100k but not these days.

If a Toyota Corporate Service Manager's daughter drove one of these problem cars and it seized up on a city expressway at night, how would he/she feel?

Thank you,

bf Massachusetts

Had to add oil twice in super short period. Have babied this car and serviced always at Toyota but now has little issues and engine oil consumption. No leak. Smells of mold from AC no matter how often you change and clean the filters. Throttle body always dirty from oil leaking / through the pistons, and engine shakes horribly but Toyota says it is normal and this is due to engine needing to relearn the idle. SURE.... Not a Toyota fan anymore.....They can clearly see that the oil is leaking through the pistons because the throttle body is always dirty, the tail pipe has oil, and there are no leaks but oil disappears at alarming rate.

My 2007 Toyota Camry engine seized up on a major highway unexpectedly during rush hour. The car had to be towed to a Toyota dealership that night. The engine has to be totally replaced at my expense because the oil check for a faulty piston had not been done. This was unknown to us. We have our car worked on by Toyota dealerships only. No one told us that there was an piston issue on the engine that would expire in October of 2015. This should have been done as part of our oil change diagnostic when we had the car in multiple times prior to October 2015.

I have now lost the use of my car and am faced with either a total replacement and the cost of financing a newer car or I will have to pay out of pocket between $3000 - $6000 for the repairs for an issue that was not my fault, but the fault of the dealership for not informing us of this problem through a warranty recall procedure. I have purchased 8 Toyotas in my life time for my family and am very disappointed that Toyota is not standing behind this problem which was not caused by my lack of judgment on a repair. I always tell the dealership if something is wrong with my vehicle, repair it before it gets worse. Toyota should be held accountable for the replacement of my car or engine with a new engine at their expense and make sure that other issues do not occur with a new engine installment.

All Toyota Camry owners, beware, your engine may seize up if you do not have the oil diagnostic done and you may end up paying for all replacements and or repairs. Get this done immediately for the piston check. Your engine will burn up all the oil if you do not take care of this immediately.

We bought this vehicle used from an individual who was the original owner. We had been without a vehicle for 6 months after our vehicle was totaled by an uninsured motorist who was at fault and we only had liability coverage. We didn't want to finance anything new so we thought we had been careful in buying a sound used car. We have had one problem after another and we have only had 2 months. Right away I noticed oil in the driveway. The owner told us was power steering leak. When checking oil, it was using 1/2 quart every time I checked once week. Took to a mechanic said oil was leaking severely and they had to spray engine several times was so coated with oil. Costs me $850.00 to repair

Bought a new 2007 Camry because of their "Reputation" for good cars from San Diego Toyota. It was a good car for about five years. Was using 1 to 2 quarts of oil every couple thousand miles. Did the research and saw I wasn't the only one. Thanks CarComplaints. At the time there was no recall. I decided to switch to a higher viscosity (thicker) oil (5-20) and that worked for me. My oil consumption diminished to WNL, just barely. I definitely keep an eye on it.

Got the notice and finally went in for the Excessive Oil Test a few months ago (2-2016). Was not impressed with the "Process". I had topped off the oil a few days before and may have overfilled by half a quart. So I had the thicker oil and probably too much in the car when I took it in. My bad. When I took the car back after 1200 miles, the service guy popped the hood and pulled the dipstick and said "No problem. No oil usage." Ok my strategy using thicker oil seems to be working. I going to switch back to the recommended thinner oil and see what happens.

I expected the dealer to do an oil change and put exactly 4.5 qts of the "recommended" thinner oil in. Otherwise how would they know how much oil was used when I came back? Wrong. They go by the marks on the dipstick, which, IMHO is totally lame....not scientific or accurate. They should drain and measure the oil after 1200 miles to know exactly how much was used. But they aren't interested in really knowing, IMHO, how much oil the car is using. They are interested in deferring the necessary repairs. Their process is a joke!

Every since I purchased my light blue Toyota Camry I never failed to get the oil changed or whatever I needed to do. I did on time, every time. So when I took my car in the Wolfchase Toyota Service department I was told that it would cost $4002.00 dollars for them to take the engine apart in order to locate the problem. That would not include the cost of the parts which they would not know until they had taken my engine apart!

I was dumbfounded because I knew that I had purposely taken great care of my vehicle by taking it to the Wolfchase location which is closer to me home in order to get all needed services. The service specialist commented on the excellent cleanliness of my vehicle as he wrote the cost of a piece of paper and slide it over to me. I did not know what to do so I asked him if I could call my father. He stepped out so that I could converse privately. My father told me to get in my car and get out because they were trying to get over on me. I was so upset and felt violated. It was the worst experience ever.

I left the car that morning and was shuttled to work. When I get to the service department at the end of the day this is what I was confronted with. I felt helpless! I still have to have my brother or fiancee put oil in the cay every 7 to 9 days.

My father-in-law is a Auto Mechanic. He changes the oil in my 2007 Toyota Camry every 2500-3500 miles. This is well before the recommended 5,000 mile Service Reminder light comes on. The car always burned oil but over the last year he has noticed that the car is burning significantly more oil. He recommended that I take the car to the Toyota dealer for a oil consumption test. I took the car to Route 44 Toyota in Raynham MA for the Oil Consumption Test. I brought the car in with 147,212 miles for the test and a oil change. I was told to bring the car back between 148,212 - 148,512 miles. I noticed that after I originally brought the car in for the the test, the car would idles at 800 RPM when stopped, after the oil change and test the car idle at 500-600 RPM. I brought the car back to Route 44 Toyota for phase II of the Oil Consumption Test with 148,290 miles. The Serviced Advisor said that the car passed the Oil Consumption Test and was only down 1/2 a quart of oil. The car burns more than a quart of oil every 1,000 miles but the Dealer is telling me that it doesn't. I also noticed that the car was back to idling at 800 RPM when stopped.

This really upsets me. This is my 3rd Camry. I have owned a 1988, 1997 and this 2007 and they were very reliable until now. I have my regular maintenance preformed. The first few times I heard the ding to alert me of the problem it took me a to determine where the noise was coming from; it sounded like the seat belt alarm. The alert was only visible for a split second. Finally I was able to see the message saying low engine oil pressure after a few more dings. The oil reservoir was completely empty. I had the car checked by my personal mechanic who said the oil is being burned out the exhaust pipe. After the initial time of adding oil, I have had added 3 quarts of oil within the use of 1,000 miles. This problem is sickening.

My father in-laws 2007 toyota camry burns through engine oil like hell, it also leaves behind a weird smell if/when the car is accelerated. It wouldn't bug me much since its not my car but since my kids ride in it with my in-laws then thats where it affects me. I dont want this to be the cause of a future accident, not only because I care for my kids safety but because a vehicle with faults shouldn't have been sold to the public to begin with. Really sh*tty thing to do, putting public lives in danger all for a quick buck.

Toyota recommends 5000 miles between oil changes. My 2007 Camry uses 3 quarts of oil between oil changes. I have taken the car to the dealership for the consumption test and they responded it didn't use enough oil to repair it. I would think that 3 quarts every 5000 miles would be enough.

I thought I was buying a very dependable car but using this much oil really upsets me. If I have to feed this much oil to a 2007 I should have bought an old clunker. My previous car was a Kia Sephia and we drove it for 11 years and never used a drop of oil. I feel if Toyota wants to brag about how wonderful there automobiles are than they should stand behind there defective workmanship. It is not the customers fault that they botched up the motors with the wrong pistons. The dealership should be made to repair their problems free of charge.

I am considering buying another vehicle soon and very sad to say that Toyota is not on my list.

This problem has really surprised me, i find it hard that toyota can share a problem of this nature because i have been denying it until my regular 3000 miles oil change became more frequent and it got worse at about 145k mark, so I took it to the dealer for diagnosis and they informed me of a recall, they also suggested i do a oil test to determine the severity of the oil shorting issue but as usual they said it is not bad enough. i have about 160k and the problem is out of control. If anybody have a suggestion, please ears are yours.

My wife's 2007 Toyota Camry with around 95,000 miles on it, is burning, and I mean BURNING 2 to 3 Qts. of oil every 3,000 miles! Okay NO DOUBT in my years owning Toyota's that the 2AZ-FE Engine in SOME way is defective, and again I say NO DOUBT! Why would I say that? Not because of all the other complaints here on CarComplaints.com. that would agree with me. Because first, I have owned a 1976 Toyota Celica ST 4Cyl with 340,000 miles on the same engine for almost 30 years! I then had owned a 1989 Toyota Camry LE 4Cyl 445,000 miles on the same engine for 25 years! Both had NO oil leaks for many, many years, and my 89 didn't even start burning oil like a 1 Qt. every 2 weeks until over 400,000 miles! Now I own a 2005 Toyota Camry V6 SE 108,000 miles now! I get the oil change every 3,000 that's just me! But I NEVER have had to add oil, little lone check it, as it ALWAYS has plenty! So you see this is a DEFECTIVE engine in some way whether its the rings, pistons, valves, or ? There is NO WAY a 2007 Toyota Camry with less then 100,000 should be burning up 3 Qts. of oil within 3,000 mile of oil changes! I have SWORN all my 40 years of owning Toyota they are the BEST CAR made! But now I am wondering a little, or wondering if Toyota is going to come through and take on some responsibility fro this (Engine) problem, because again there is! This is not right, not fair, not honest as Toyota has been in the past! I hope they make it right, and take responsibility and do some type of recall on these engines 2AZ-FE because they ARE in someway defective, as a Toyota owner, owning Toyotas for over 40 years now! You BET this would be costly for Toyota! But I will NOT buy another Toyota if this problem NOT caused by the original owner my wife, is not taken care of! I will be looking at Honda's, or Hyundai

I bought my 07 Camry a few years back, used 48000 miles. It was great car. Red color, stick shift, I was loving it. I use my car for work and I have to pay close attention to my car for that reason.

Maybe 2 years after I bought the car I noticed in between my scheduled oil changes, the light would come on. It would flash and cut out. I said to myself "hell no" I had just changed it. But to my surprise...the oil was low. So I put a little oil in and began driving normal. A few weeks after I recall the same thing happening again. The problem began to get worse.

I called Toyota and asked if this was a problem "normal" and of course they acted as if that was the first time they had heard about it. I asked to speak with a mechanic to see if he/she was familiar with the problem. I was better off telling my son's stuffed bear my issue. The car got so bad I was putting a quart of oil EVERY OTHER DAY! Finally I had to dip into my retirement fund to get $3500 to fix the problem which the mechanic said was a piston ring issue. Oil was not leaking he said, it was burning. I had to replace the whole engine.

I bought my 2007 Camry new and it has been a decent car overall but not what I expected from Toyota. Front brake rotors got warped at 30000 miles causing violent vibration when braking from 40mph and up. Steering wheel shook up like crazy making it difficult to control the car. Then 55000 the water pump started making noise and had it replaced at 61000 miles out of pocket.

The last problem and most annoying problem is the oil consumption which started at 35000 miles but got worse at 6000+. I now have 85000 on the car and I'm adding over five quarts between oil changes. I have to keep an eye on the dip stick every 2 weeks because it's burning too much oil. Dealer told me it's normal which is ridiculous as I owned many other cars and never had this issue.

Toyota must correct this issue before a class action suit is launched again them.

I had noticed my 2007 Camry seemed to use a lot of oil, but since I don't drive a lot, it was not that big of a problem for me. I got a letter from Toyota last year about a possible problem in some Toyotas concerning burning too much oil. I took my car to the dealership for the oil consumption test (took me a few months to drive the required miles) and just found out today that it failed the test. The dealership gave me a loaner car to use for a week or two while my car undergoes the piston repair, at no cost to me. Will update when I get my car back.