A few months ago I had started to notice some vibrations when the car was lightly accelerating between 35-45 mph and decided to investigate on this website. I have filed a previous complaint on my 2012 Camry here and remembered seeing the transmission as a trouble spot. I was away at college when this problem popped up and then was involved in a deer strike that nearly totaled the car, so I didn't bring the car into the dealer until June. I had mentioned that I suspected the torque converter and that there is a now expired technical service bulletin. The dealer, Westside Toyota (formerly Sunnyside Toyota), confirmed my suspicions and charged me roughly $3,100 after tax for the work. As a college student I decided to have the work done as my major requires me to drive off site and it is better to fix part of the transmission now at 3k instead of 5k down the road. I was forced to borrow money from multiple family members to cover the bill, which was very annoying as I bought a Camry to avoid any headaches like this. Aside from the torque converter and tires the car has been excellent, so there was no hesitation throwing the money in, so this incident was just a pain in the rear that taught me how it feels to be Ford owner.

Took my Camry to the Midwest Toyota of Hutchinson, KS. This shop tried to tell me that I didn't have a torque converter shutter to keep the warranty idea out. Rather they billed me 1000 dollars to replace 1 CV axle and rob me. This car has a TSB out about a faulty torque converter and all Toyota is doing is reprograming the ECU to shift at higher RPM's to slow these torque converters from getting damaged. All the 2012 - 2014 Camry's are JUNK...

Here's the PDF link to the TSB and here's the TSB number.. https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2017/MC-10146516-9999.pdf and T-SB-0312-17. PLEASE DON'T BUY THE 2012 - 2014 OR YOU'LL BE SORRY .. MY CAR ONLY HAD 97,000 MILES WHEN THE TRANSMISSION FAILED!!

They replace the torque converter brought car home a week later car leaking transmission fluid They say it was the cooling unit causing the transmission to leak and they could fix it but it might not fix the problem. It costs $1000 to repair and drive it - but this might not fix the problem. They might have to replace the transmission at a cost $8000. The car was not leaking fluid until they did all this work. I reported problem to Toyota company and am waiting to hear back from them, but it sounds like they are not going to do any thing about it. I will let you know. I'm very unhappy right now with Toyota - I thought I was buying a good car.

I thought that buying a Toyota Camry was the right thing to do. It's supposed to be the highest quality. Well, I just found out that my Torque Converter needs to be replaced. Good News/Bad News - Toyota has extended the factory warranty on the Torque converter, but... only for under 150,000 miles. I have 155,000 miles on my Camry XLE. So I called Toyota and wanted to work something out with them. They were nice but in the end they were unwilling to work anything out. Long story short - I need to spend $2500 if I want to fix the torque converter. As far as I'm concerned the car is now junk!

We bought this Camry used with 82,500 miles after an extensive search on Consumer Reports and carcomplaints.com. (Even now I'm surprised that as of now only 3 complaints regarding this problem are showing up on this website).

At first we were very happy with this car. Shortly before reaching 150,000 the transmission began to shudder when shifting gears during acceleration. At first it was slight then it started to get worse. When we finally took it to a mechanic the odometer had reached something like 150,300.

When the mechanic called us he told me there was a Technical Service Bulletin put out by Toyota that stated that this was a common problem in this model and year and that a previously suggested fix of replacing the torque converter was now determined insufficient and that the currently recommended fix would also include rebuilding the transmission. The real kick in the gut was that Toyota would accept no financial responsibility if the odometer had passed 150,000.

That's when the real fun began. Our mechanic suggested a local transmission shop and they confirmed that the fix recommended by Toyota was necessary and would cost us $3900. Having no choice because we still owed payments we paid the transmission shop and left it with them.

A week later we picked up the "fixed" car and drove it away thinking at least this was a Toyota and should last us quite a few more years. Before the week was up the shudder returned and we took it back. The mechanic told us that the torque converter was under warranty and they would put a new one once it arrived.

One week later we called a call that it was ready and running well so we went and picked it up again. A couple of days later and it started again. This time the mechanic said that even though this was unusual it had happened before, so once again we left it for another week. When the call came that it was ready my wife picked it up and the mechanic said, "It should be fine now, I test drove it quite a ways and it did just fine."

As soon as my wife got it on the road she knew that it still wasn't fixed. The next day I showed back up at the mechanic's and of course he looked shocked, but he promised he would take care of it and stated that he would now have to buy a re-built transmission from one of his competitors.

This time they had our car for 15 days and considering my wife needed it to get to work it had become a real problem. On the evening of the 14th day the mechanic called me said, "I have been on the phone with Toyota and other consultants trying to figure out why we've been having such a problem because we've done everything we were supposed to do so this shouldn't be happening, but if we're not able to confirm it is fixed by tomorrow we'll just have to throw up our hands and give you the car and your money back". At least he valued his integrity even though he had already clearly paid out more than what we had paid him.

The next day we got the call. "Success! It's running perfect!" Clearly he was pleased and fortunately for both of us he was right. It was running like it should and has continued to for the past 10,000 miles. I have a lot of respect for that transmission mechanic and will recommend him to anyone. As far as Toyota is concerned, I will recommend to everyone, "Buyer Beware!"

Leased a 2012 Camry LE. Transmission problems from the start. Hesitation, up shifts and down shifts without warning. Cold weather, forget it. Car would slam into gear and keep doing it until about 20 minutes later. Took it to dealer and told them to drive it for a week to see what it does. Their test drive was pulling it in to the garage. No problem, drives like it should, really? Dumped it and got a 2015 Camry. Now this is a Toyota and we are going to buy it at lease end. Shifts great, no problems. Answer is if you get a good one great, if you have problems, Toyota will deny everything. The 2018's look nice but I'm not willing to take the chance again with a bad one because like I said Toyota knows they have some problems but will deny everything.