Other wheel or tire problem on the 2001 Toyota Camry
3 crashes 3 injuries 6 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.
When other wheel or tire problem gets reported
Owners of the 2001 Toyota Camry report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 25,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 20,000 miles and a quarter after 55,000 miles, from 10 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 4th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 15,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 130,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 114,259 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.
60% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16,330 miles | 19,966 miles | 27,250 miles | 53,000 miles | 130,589 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, 3 a crash and 3 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 $200–$1,500 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 25 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2016, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1999 at 155,000 miles.
By volume the 2002 carries the most reports, with 48; the 2001 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.
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.
I have a safety concern with my 2001 toyota camry purchased through ira toyota in danvers mass. The tires pulled to rhe left and squealed going around corners. I kept checking tire pressure to see if that was the cause, no. In october I took the car in to have the tires rotated at dube toyota in dover, nh. The car had a little over 19,000 miles on it. I was asked into the service area to look at the tires because they were very worn. The front tires were very worn on both the inside and outside edges, the cording was visible. The rear tires were worn evenly. Started the complaint process with ira toyota. The service manager at bill dube talked with the district representative about financial assistance in replacing the tires. I replaced the front tires immediately. Had alignment checked. Called toyota customer service and spoke with christina woods who initiated my claim/complaint I called again after a couple of weeks and spoke to another person, was told to send in all my work orders/paid receipts and they would reimburse us for four new tires and the wheel alignment. I had the rear tires replaced. District representative said…
Premature tire faillure. I recently had to replace my tires on a 2001 toyota camary. The car has 47000 miles on it. The tire dealer indicated that he had experienced thsi problem on several occasions. Other customers had similar complaints involving several brands of tires. He indicated that there was premature outer edge wear indicating a possible specification problem.
Clutch failure on 2001 toyota camry ce.*mr toyota would not cover the repairs, the consumer was informed by toyota that the vehicle was being used a race car which caused the clutch to fail and the tires to wear out. *cb *jb
Also reported on the 2001 Toyota Camry
Other engine problem
Other speed control problem
Other body or interior problem
Other suspension problem
Airbag failed to deploy in a crash
Other powertrain problem
How far this goes
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 other wheel or tire problem happen on the 2001 Toyota Camry?
Across 10 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 25,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 20,000 miles and a quarter after 55,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other wheel or tire problem on the 2001 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