Other engine problem on the 2000 Toyota Camry
1 crash 6 fires 7 of the 39 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.
When other engine problem gets reported
Owners of the 2000 Toyota Camry report other engine problem at a median of 75,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 50,000 miles and a quarter after 95,000 miles, from 21 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 3rd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 35,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 155,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 124,000 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
14% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33,000 miles | 49,900 miles | 73,000 miles | 96,000 miles | 157,000 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, 1 a crash and 6 a fire 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 $300–$4,000 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 26 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2013, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2021 at 205,000 miles.
By volume the 2007 carries the most reports, with 238; the 2000 has 39. 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.
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.
2000 toyota camry with 33,000 miles. The check engine light came on. Dealer said it was codes po440 po441 and po446. They said I need a new "canister and control valve" and it will cost $600. As I understand it, this is some kind of charcoal filed canister that deals with emissions. It would seem that this is a non essential part. It would also seem that this would have few, if any, movable parts and should last the life of the car. This had to be a manufacturing defect and could not be related to use of the car or the driver. The manufacturer should stand behind this part and replace it on a car with so few miles. *la
Check engine light came on in my wife's 2000 toyota camry le, 4 cylinder. Dealer charged $72 for diagnosis and recommended replacement of charcoal canister due to emissions vent control system malfunction, code po 440. I didnt get it done. Did some research on the internet and see dozens of similar complaints from toyota users. Cant toyota correct this problem, as its obviously a design or manufacturing flaw? *ak
I have a 2000 toyota camry with 62,000 miles that has had the oil changed every 3000 miles or less, and has been properly maintained. I was travlling at around 65 MPH on a busy highway during a holiday weekend when without any warning I heard a loud noise. Fortunately I was able to get the vehicle off of the road and I discovered that there was oil everywhere. When a passerby stopped he showed me a hole in the engine block. When the car was towed to a toyota dealer and examined, they observed that the engine had thrown the #4 rod. Since the car was 2,000 miles out of warranty, as a "good will" gesture toyota agreed to replace the engine, but I was stuck with labor estimated at around $1,500. I have written to toyota and asked them to pay for labor also, but they haven't made a final determination as of yet. The road I was travelling on less than 10 min before the incident occured (the pa turnpike) was hillly, curvey and crowded. If the engine had blown on that highway an accident would have ensued due to the large volume of traffic and absence of adequate shoulder space. I'm still waiting for shaffertoyota in cumberland, md to…
Also reported on the 2000 Toyota Camry
Other speed control problem
Other body or interior problem
Airbag failed to deploy in a crash
Other brake problem
Other wheel or tire problem
Other powertrain problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 39 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 other engine problem happen on the 2000 Toyota Camry?
Across 21 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 75,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 50,000 miles and a quarter after 95,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other engine problem on the 2000 Toyota Camry?
39 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 2.9 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