Other fuel system problem on the 2005 Toyota Camry
3 crashes 1 fire 3 injuries 7 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 fuel system problem gets reported
Owners of the 2005 Toyota Camry report other fuel system problem at a median of 50,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 40,000 miles and a quarter after 65,000 miles, from 18 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 90,000 miles. It is the 12th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 15,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 90,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 73,750 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
17% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15,550 miles | 40,325 miles | 48,709 miles | 65,750 miles | 89,300 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, 1 a fire 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 $300–$2,200 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 2020, at a median of 2,000 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 120,000 miles.
By volume the 2018 carries the most reports, with 52; the 2005 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 own a 2005 toyota camry with a 4cyl. It has 45,000 miles. From reading online and one specifically devoted to this problem www.toyotathrottlebody.com . The throttle body goes bad and the car just dies! This is a big safety issue when mine failed I was pulling out onto a busy street and almost was involved in a crash. From reading online this is a common problem that toyota does nothing about. Not to mention it cost 1100.00 dollars to fix! Any help in getting a recall on this would be greatly appreciated it really is a big safety issue. When this part fails there is no warning the car just stops dead in its tracks. *tr
While in process of parking 2005 toyota camry 6 cylinder in one-level parking space traveling at less than 5 MPH, with foot on brake, vehicle suddenly accelerated and went out of control, crashing into pole, injuring driver slightly. Was second such incident about one year apart, with stone wall stopping vehicle during first incident, while ripping off entire front end. *tr
Car is toyota camry 2005 50k miles, still under powertrain warranty. Discovered rattling noise coming from the engine. Took car to the dealer. Dealer diagnosed broken diverter inside the intake manifold. I was advised that broken debris from diverter may fall into the engine and cause major damage. Toyota refused to make repair under powertrain warranty. This part was covered up to the 2004 year model. For 2005 model toyota excluded this item from powertrain warranty, knowing that this is a factory defect repeating in thousands of vehicles. I see internet flooded with complaints for the same problem in models starting from 2002 and up. I am surprised why NHTSA does not make an action to force manufacturer to fix well known and repeating for a number of years, major safety defect, as vehicle's motor may fail and blow any moment in case metal debris from diverter fell into the engine. *tr
Also reported on the 2005 Toyota Camry
Other speed control problem
Other powertrain problem
Seat belt or retractor failure
Other brake problem
Other engine problem
Airbag failed to deploy in a crash
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 fuel system problem happen on the 2005 Toyota Camry?
Across 18 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 50,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 40,000 miles and a quarter after 65,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other fuel system problem on the 2005 Toyota Camry?
21 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.6 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