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ABS module or sensor failure on the 2000 Toyota Camry

7 crashes 5 injuries 12 of the 21 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.

Only 3 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 21
With an odometer reading 3
Reports per 1,000 built 1.6 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 100%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 12
Typical repair $500–$2,400
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 8th

When abs module or sensor failure gets reported

There are 21 reports of ABS module or sensor failure on the 2000 Toyota Camry, 3 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 8th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 3 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 5,277 miles — —

Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.

What a percentile can and cannot tell you here

These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.

What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.

Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.

What happens, and what it costs

Of these reports, 7 a crash and 5 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.

Putting it right typically runs $500–$2,400 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 17 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2010, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2007 at 112,500 miles.

By volume the 2007 carries the most reports, with 105; the 2000 has 21. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 1996 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 75k
  2. 1997 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  3. 1998 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 30k
  4. 1999 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 65k
  5. 2000 (this one) 5k
  6. 2001 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 69k
  7. 2002 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 21k
  8. 2003 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 8k
  9. 2004 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 11k
  10. 2005 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 10k
  11. 2006 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 16k
  12. 2007 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 112k
  13. 2008 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 75k
  14. 2009 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 84k
  15. 2010 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 5k
  16. 2012 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 30k
  17. 2013 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 27k
  18. 2015 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  19. 2018 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  20. 2019 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  21. 2020 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure 37k
  22. 2021 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  23. 2023 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  24. 2025 Toyota Camry abs module or sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

What owners wrote

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.

Loss of brake effectiveness, pedal travels to floor, spongy brakes. Pedal clearance is 0. Inches (minimum 2.8 inches at 100 lbf with engine on).rakes less effective in hotter weather. Many close calls in stopping before hitting someone. Vehicle is unsafe! Took vehicle in 5 times to dealership, called toyota hotline, no fix yet they are stumpped! Tried cleaning, adjusting, bleeding and master cylinder.*ak

11,000 miles NHTSA complaint 427183 filed 2003-08-27

The vehicle's anti skid system did not allow the driver to stop the vehicle when driving on snow or wet roads. The dealership indicated that the consumer should disconnect the anti skid system. *nlm

2 miles NHTSA complaint 396295 filed 2003-03-04

Also reported on the 2000 Toyota Camry

Other speed control problem

94 reports median 90k

Other body or interior problem

43 reports median 67k

Other engine problem

39 reports median 73k

Airbag failed to deploy in a crash

31 reports median 100k

Other brake problem

24 reports median 63k

Other wheel or tire problem

24 reports median 47k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 21 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 21 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

Questions this page answers

At what mileage does abs module or sensor failure happen on the 2000 Toyota Camry?

Across 3 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 5,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is abs module or sensor failure on the 2000 Toyota Camry?

21 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 1.6 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed