Other electrical problem on the 2011 Toyota Camry
2 crashes 3 fires 2 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 electrical problem gets reported
Owners of the 2011 Toyota Camry report other electrical problem at a median of 40,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 20,000 miles and a quarter after 55,000 miles, from 13 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 85,000 miles. It is the 10th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 5,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 60,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 56,169 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A window that narrow is the signature of a part that fails on its own schedule rather than on how the car is driven — which is usually a design or supplier problem rather than wear and tear.
38% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,401 miles | 18,300 miles | 40,000 miles | 55,000 miles | 59,570 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, 2 a crash, 3 a fire and 2 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 $250–$2,000 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.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 29 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2021, at a median of 35 miles, and latest on the 2025 at 190,000 miles.
By volume the 2007 carries the most reports, with 118; the 2011 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.
Tl* the contact owns a 2011 toyota camry. The contact stated the vehicle was not turned on and when the contact touched the radio interface, it was extremely hot. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. There were no prior warnings. The VIN was not available. The current and failure mileages were 71.
The speedometer is inaccurate by almost 10%, when driving by radars or with another vehicle at 35 MPH the radar reads 32. Driving next to another vehicle to check the speedometer, it reads 70 MPH but the other vehicle's speedometer reads 64 MPH. The dealership has verified the inaccuracy but claims the variance is within the spec of 10%. Per the dealer and it's experts the speedometer cannot be calibrated or fixed since it is in spec. *tt
I am reporting the same speedometer variances as originally noted in odi case number: 10444688. My speed reflects 35 MPH on my speedometer, when in fact it is only 33 MPH. Also, if I am going 55 - per the speedometer, the car in fact is only going 52 - 53 MPH. This difference is consistant with an actual speed being about 5% less than what it actually displays on the camey's speedometer. I have 'checked' the actual speed by 1) a police speed monitoring sign/display that is put into various locations to both check your speed and to notifiy you of that actual speed in the hopes that you will slow down; and 2) by checking my tomtom gps unit which provides a true readout of my actual speed measured by its 8 satelites in the sky. It likewise always shows a lower 'actual' reading than what my speedometer shows. It is better to have the 'inacurracy' of the read speed to be on the lower end of things - I.e., you are going slower than you think you are, than to have it reversed - which would be both more unsafe and cause you to get speeding tickets. However, in this day-and-age, with 'digitial' instructments/chips'; you would think that…
Also reported on the 2011 Toyota Camry
Other visibility problem
Other body or interior problem
Other speed control problem
Other powertrain problem
Other brake problem
Other suspension 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 electrical problem happen on the 2011 Toyota Camry?
Across 13 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 40,000 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 electrical problem on the 2011 Toyota Camry?
21 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 14 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