Airbag failed to deploy in a crash on the 2007 Toyota Camry
32 crashes 18 injuries 1 death 51 of the 33 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 airbag failed to deploy in a crash gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Toyota Camry report airbag failed to deploy in a crash at a median of 72,500 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 115,000 miles, from 29 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 72,000 miles. It is the 21st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 15,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 137,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 122,000 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.
24% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15,600 miles | 36,000 miles | 71,422 miles | 114,000 miles | 137,600 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, 32 a crash, 18 an injury and 1 a fatality 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 $1,000–$5,000 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.
This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 25 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2018, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1996 at 200,000 miles.
By volume the 2002 carries the most reports, with 35; the 2007 has 33. 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.
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 toyota camry. The contact's wife was forced off the road by another vehicle while driving approximately 35 to 40 MPH. She lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the wall of a house. The driver side air bag failed to deploy. The vehicle was towed to a body shop. The manufacturer was notified and a report was filed; however, they stated that there was no recall for the 2007 toyota camry air bag. They further stated that the air bag did not deploy because the air bag sensor was not struck. The driver suffered injuries to her neck, back, and feet. The killeen police department filed report number 08-1463. The failure mileage was 1,100.
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 toyota camry. While driving 50 MPH a vehicle crashed into him which also caused him to crash into another vehicle. The entire front end was damaged; yet, the air bags did not deploy. The contact was transported to the hospital by ambulance to the severe injuries to his face and jaws. The vehicle was destroyed. A police report is available if needed. The crash was a hit and run. The failure mileage was 73,000.
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 toyota camry. The contact stated that while driving at approximately 35 MPH, the brakes malfunctioned when he attempted to slow down at a traffic light. Because the vehicle did not slow down, the vehicle crashed into another vehicle at the intersection. The air bags did not deploy and one passenger from the other vehicle was injured and taken to the hospital. The contact had not spoken with the manufacturer at the time of the complaint. The failure mileage was approximately 26,000.
Also reported on the 2007 Toyota Camry
Other visibility problem
Other body or interior problem
Other speed control problem
Excessive oil consumption
Other engine problem
Other powertrain problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 33 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 airbag failed to deploy in a crash happen on the 2007 Toyota Camry?
Across 29 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 72,500 miles. A quarter were filed before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 115,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is airbag failed to deploy in a crash on the 2007 Toyota Camry?
33 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.3 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