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Toyota Camry 2020

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.31 per 1,000

0.8 times this nameplate’s own median · from 99 complaints filed in the first three years, of 281 ever. 95% lower bound 0.25.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.47	204
2009	1.06	421
2010	0.80	274
2011	0.49	154
2012	0.61	216
2013	0.30	124
2014	0.39	161
2015	0.20	84
2016	0.20	81
2017	0.18	69
2018	0.91	331
2019	0.55	186
2020	0.31	99
2021	0.14	43
2022	0.11	33
2023	0.14	42

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Electrical System 68 complaints

battery	41	60%
dead	20	30%
jump	10	15%

Engine 60 complaints

coolant	21	35%
valve	15	25%
bypass valve	11	19%
bypass	11	19%
malfunction	11	19%
coolant bypass	10	17%

Air Bags 57 complaints

yet	23	40%
part recall	20	35%
aware experienced	19	33%
repair made	18	31%
repair yet	13	23%
yet exceeded	11	19%

When it breaks

71% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 8,000 miles, from 79 complaints that recorded one).

Failures cluster early, which is the signature of how the car was built rather than of wear. A low-mileage example has not yet passed the risk window.

What NHTSA did

1 investigation covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign.

Pedestrian alert sounds

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

11289435 · 11297722 · 11303041 · 11309381 · 11316248 · 11318683

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is verified against a published figure.