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Body · 27 owner reports

Other body or interior problem on the 2013 Toyota Camry

3 crashes 1 injury 4 of the 27 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.

Reports of this failure 27
With an odometer reading 21
Reports per 1,000 built 0.2 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 86%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 4
Typical repair $200–$2,000
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 3rd

When other body or interior problem gets reported

Owners of the 2013 Toyota Camry report other body or interior problem at a median of 15,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 1,400 miles and a quarter after 25,000 miles, from 21 reports that carried an odometer reading.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 3rd most-reported problem on this model year.

The mileage distribution

The reported range runs from 100 miles at the tenth percentile to 60,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 59,900 miles across the middle 80% of reports.

Reports bunched into a band this tight usually mean the component has a life of its own: it goes at roughly the same mileage regardless of who owns it.

86% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 21 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
100 miles 1,356 miles 13,090 miles 24,000 miles 60,000 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, 3 a crash and 1 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 $200–$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 27 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 120,000 miles.

By volume the 2007 carries the most reports, with 414; the 2013 has 27. 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.

Median
  1. 1996 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 121k
  2. 1997 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 80k
  3. 1998 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 70k
  4. 1999 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 70k
  5. 2000 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 67k
  6. 2001 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 84k
  7. 2002 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 48k
  8. 2003 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 50k
  9. 2004 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 31k
  10. 2005 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 43k
  11. 2006 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 58k
  12. 2007 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 60k
  13. 2008 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 60k
  14. 2009 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 60k
  15. 2010 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 24k
  16. 2011 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 50k
  17. 2012 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 21k
  18. 2013 (this one) 13k
  19. 2014 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 10k
  20. 2015 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 45k
  21. 2016 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 36k
  22. 2017 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 6k
  23. 2018 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 3k
  24. 2019 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 4k
  25. 2020 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 89k
  26. 2021 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  27. 2022 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 74k
  28. 2023 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  29. 2024 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  30. 2025 Toyota Camry other body or interior problem 81k

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.

Car was stopped behind a landscaper's trailer for a second and the engine accelerated so fast and so loudly and overrode the brake smashing into the back of the trailer. Husband was unable to reach the keys to turn off the engine. Wife was injured in chest area and taken to the hospital. This was a loaner from toyota until they investigated why our highlander was accelerating the day before. *tr the consumer stated toyota insisted there was nothing wrong with the vehicle. Updated 05/01/13

20 miles NHTSA complaint 961870 filed 2013-02-07

I experienced an sudden unintended acceleration condition on my 2013 camry se on 08/20/2013. The car hit a big tree and was not repairable, total-ed. Thanks to the air-bags, I only had a couple of bruises here and there. *tr

1,356 miles NHTSA complaint 1004886 filed 2013-08-26

Weather stripping on all doors doesn't touch the glass, creates a hazard not being able to see out the side windows. Water is getting inside of the door. No response from toyota yet. Updated 01/23/14*lj this filed complaint has worsened as winter has set in. Drive is completely blinded, by windows and driver and passenger side can't be cleared be rolling down and rolling up the windows to clear the rain and snow. The weather strip didn't even touch the glass on any of the four doors. Updated 01/23/14

100 miles NHTSA complaint 1022414 filed 2013-11-18

Also reported on the 2013 Toyota Camry

Other powertrain problem

41 reports median 33k

Torque converter failure

30 reports median 70k

Other speed control problem

26 reports median 20k

Other electrical problem

20 reports median 24k

Other steering problem

20 reports median 5k

Other engine problem

19 reports median 9k

How far this goes

Complaints are voluntary, so 27 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 body or interior problem happen on the 2013 Toyota Camry?

Across 21 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 15,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 1,400 miles and a quarter after 25,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other body or interior problem on the 2013 Toyota Camry?

27 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 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