Sunroof failure or glass breakage on the 2013 Toyota Camry
When sunroof failure or glass breakage gets reported
Owners of the 2013 Toyota Camry report sunroof failure or glass breakage at a median of 55,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 55,000 miles and a quarter after 60,000 miles, from 10 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 78,000 miles. It is the 10th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 15,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 70,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 52,759 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.
20% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15,131 miles | 57,150 miles | 57,175 miles | 59,300 miles | 67,890 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 $700–$4,500 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 19 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2010 at 115,000 miles.
By volume the 2012 carries the most reports, with 19; the 2013 has 10. 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.
***sunroof*** constantly knocking. After taking it in the first time I was told the bolts were incorrectly bolted out of the plant. After picking up the vehicle I noticed the knocking was still there. Told that they needed someone from corporate office to assist. Installed chims and fixed. November 13th knocking noise back again. Again someone from corporate had to come in to assist, again chims installed and told it was fixed. I asked to speak with a manager to inquire if this was a safety issue and if I should be affraid that my sunroof would come lose and also to ask how many times must I return to have this issue looked at with the thought that is was actually fixed. Sales manager said they don't believe its a safety issue and that I should not worry about this repair being an issue in the future as they have a documented history of this problem and that I would not be responsible for paying for it in the future. It is now january of 2014 and the noise is back again. I have researched this problem on the internet and find that this is a common issue with toyota sunroofs and that they are aware of the problem since 2008 but…
Tl* the contact owns a 2013 toyota camry. The contact stated that while driving 40 MPH, a loud explosion was heard as the contact noticed that the sunroof had shattered. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for inspection where they stated that they could not determine the cause of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 16,240. The VIN was not available. *tr
I was driving down the highway when I heard this huge pop that sounded like a gunshot, honestly. I quickly glanced around but didn't notice anything. I get to my destination and walked around my car. No glass was cracked, all my lights were fine, and there were no dents or holes on my car. Thinking it may have just been debris that hit my car and made a weird noise I got in my car and started driving home. I get on the highway, start going about seventy MPH, and out of nowhere I hear this crunch and scrape noise followed by a bunch of air coming from my ceiling. Confused, I get off the highway and I pulled over into the parking lot of a walmart and that is when I saw my sunroof had exploded for no reason! I was not passing over a bridge when I heard the initial pop nor was there was not any construction going on near where I was when I heard the initial pop. Luckily, I had the sunroof closed so I was able to get as much glass out as I could. There was no rock or brick or any other debris inside the sunroof compartment. Also, I noticed that the glass is facing upwards and not downwards.
Also reported on the 2013 Toyota Camry
Other powertrain problem
Torque converter failure
Other body or interior problem
Other speed control problem
Other electrical problem
Other steering problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 10 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 sunroof failure or glass breakage happen on the 2013 Toyota Camry?
Across 10 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 55,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 55,000 miles and a quarter after 60,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is sunroof failure or glass breakage on the 2013 Toyota Camry?
10 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 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