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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.
7.0
pretty bad- Typical Repair Cost:
- $2,800
- Average Mileage:
- 58,500 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 4 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
- not sure (3 reports)
- transmission rebuild (1 reports)
transmission problem
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
The symptoms were similar to the other complaints here...after work in stop-and-go traffic, it didn't want to accelerate from the light and hit second gear. Well, for those of you with this problem and are about to take it in, I will warn you. Knowing the transmission was the likely problem, I took it in to a local transmission shop only to be told that one of the internal parts was disintegrating and corrupting the rest of the transmission. So, I had the choice of a repair with a 12000 mile warranty that would cost $2800, or a better warranty with the price well over 3 grand. In looking at other complaints on this site, apparently Toyotas might have some ongoing transmission issues. Since I was someone who bought their second Camry for reliability, this is a punch in the gut for me. I was a Toyota believer, and didn't take the recent Toyota-in-the-news seriously, but here I am. Since I JUST got this car paid off and now this happens, probably this is the last straw for me, too.
- hollifeld91, Cary, NC, US