Other visibility problem on the 2010 Toyota Camry
When other visibility problem gets reported
Owners of the 2010 Toyota Camry report other visibility problem at a median of 72,500 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 40,000 miles and a quarter after 105,000 miles, from 46 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 2nd 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 122,740 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.
22% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14,760 miles | 39,250 miles | 73,692 miles | 103,750 miles | 137,500 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
Putting it right typically runs $150–$1,400 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 24 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2017, at a median of 100 miles, and latest on the 1996 at 75,000 miles.
By volume the 2007 carries the most reports, with 521; the 2010 has 67. 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 2010 toyota camry. The contact stated that the defogger malfunctioned and made it difficult to see out of the windows when it is was turned on. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who stated that it should remain on low and it would clear the windows. The contact advised the dealer that he could not see out of the window when it remained on he. The dealer stated there was no fix for the failure. The failure mileage was 190.
Husband, daughter and myself got into our 2010 camry, when our daughter closed her rear door, we heard a cracking noise and turned around to see the back windshield shattered and a huge hole in the middle. There was glass scattered all over the back seat. Luckily our daughter was not injured. There was no rock, branch or thrown object as a cause of the shattering. Car was parked in driveway. Had been driving car earlier in the day with no problems. Temperature outside roughly 40 degrees and car had just been turned on. *tr
I drive a 2010 toyota camry with about 7500 miles. At about 11:20 a.m. Today my rear window exploded as I stopped at a traffic light on arlington mill road in arlington, va. When the explosion occurred I did not know what it was and looked around for the source. When I looked to the rear I saw the window in fragments. I saw no one around me although there may have been several vehicles stopped at the light behind me. They all drove around and continued on when the light changed. I crossed the light to not hold up traffic and then called aaa to determine what to do. I take product pictures of products I market over the internet and had a camera with me, so I took several pictures. I did not call the police as I could see no one who might have fired a gun or thrown a stone. Aaa advised that I should not drive the car as it was not safe to other drivers if shattered glass flew off into the road way. I also did not want to drive or in any way disturb the vehicle prior to examination by the dealer. The temperature was 82 degrees and the AC was on. Also, the side windows have been tinted dark as I had intended to use the vehicle for a…
Also reported on the 2010 Toyota Camry
Other speed control problem
Other body or interior problem
Other engine problem
Other powertrain problem
Other brake problem
Airbag failed to deploy in a crash
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 67 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 visibility problem happen on the 2010 Toyota Camry?
Across 46 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 72,500 miles. A quarter were filed before 40,000 miles and a quarter after 105,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other visibility problem on the 2010 Toyota Camry?
67 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