Unclassified problem on the 2007 Toyota Camry
55 crashes 2 fires 34 injuries 91 of the 281 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 151 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.
When unclassified problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Toyota Camry report unclassified problem at a median of 79,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 119,000 miles, from 151 reports that carried an odometer reading.
It is the 78th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 13,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 165,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 152,040 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.
25% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,960 miles | 35,012 miles | 78,877 miles | 119,152 miles | 165,000 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, 55 a crash, 2 a fire and 34 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.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 28 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1998 at 125,000 miles.
By volume the 2007 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
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. On may 29, 2007, the contact's vehicle was struck four times by an eighteen wheeler. None of the six air bags in the vehicle deployed. The crash occurred while driving 55 MPH. The contact was a passenger in the vehicle at the time of the crash. He and his wife were ambulanced from the scene. He sustained knee injuries and a concussion and his wife suffered neck injuries. The contact stated that they are both currently in therapy due to the injuries. The vehicle was destroyed. The contact stated that he can get the police report. The VIN, purchase date, and engine size were unknown. The current and failure mileages were 17,000. Updated 08/15/07. *jb
My 2007 camry se was t-boned on the driver side by a 2006 saab. The saab's airbags went off and the car was considered totalled. The point of impact was the front end of the saab into the drivers side door - estimated speed was 30mph. No airbags went off in the 2007 camry! No indicators we lit on the dash. The car had 5500 miles on it. The car was repaired and not totaled because the airbags did not go off. Total repairs on this car are currently around $14,000
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 toyota camry. The contact stated that the vehicle hesitates and experiences acceleration failure since it was a new vehicle. Then, on july 11, 2007, while attempting to accelerate, the vehicle completely lost all motive power and was disabled partially blocking a lane of traffic on an interstate. The vehicle failed to move even though the engine was still running. The police assisted and the vehicle was moved to a safe location. The dealer suggested that the rubber floormat may have gotten stuck underneath the accelerator pedal and caused the hesitation concern. The dealer could not find a cause for the loss of motive power failure. The current mileage is 12,968. The failure mileage for the hesitation issue was 12,960. *dsy updated 09/10/07 *tr
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
This page is kept out of search results because 281 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 281 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 unclassified problem happen on the 2007 Toyota Camry?
Across 151 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 79,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 119,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is unclassified problem on the 2007 Toyota Camry?
281 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 2.5 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