Other body or interior problem on the 2017 Toyota Camry
1 crash 1 fire 2 of the 13 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 body or interior problem gets reported
Owners of the 2017 Toyota Camry report other body or interior problem at a median of 5,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 25,000 miles, from 9 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 600 miles at the tenth percentile to 45,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 41,929 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.
89% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 580 miles | 5,000 miles | 6,000 miles | 24,406 miles | 42,509 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, 1 a crash and 1 a fire 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 2017 has 13. 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 2017 toyota camry. While driving at an unknown speed, the front driver's seat moved up and down. While the vehicle was parked, the seat moved to the steering and the back of the seat reclined to the rear driver's side seat. The failure recurred. The vehicle was taken to the dealer (silsbee toyota in silsbee, tx), but the failure could not be duplicated. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and stated that nothing could be done without duplicating the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 700.
Tl* the contact owns a 2017 toyota camry. The contact stated that the front driver's door failed to open and lock with the remote key and the buttons on the door. The contact had to open the door manually. The vehicle was taken to carson toyota (1333 e 223rd st, carson, ca 90745), but the failure could not be replicated. The vehicle was not repaired and the front passenger side door also failed. The vehicle was taken back to the dealer where it was determined that the passenger door was able to be repaired, but not the driver's door. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and informed the contact to call the dealer. The approximate failure mileage was 24,406. The VIN was not provided.
Tl* the contact owns a 2017 toyota camry. The contact stated that a rodent entered the vehicle through the rear air equalizer in the trunk while it was parked. The contact stated that the rodent chewed through the rear seats and destroyed the interior of the vehicle. While driving in the driveway at 10 MPH, the rodent fell onto the contact's lap. The vehicle was taken to valley hi toyota in victorville ca, 92395 (866-632-6290) where it was inspected, but not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted, but offered no resolution. The VIN was not available. The failure mileage was 5,000.
Also reported on the 2017 Toyota Camry
Other brake problem
Other speed control problem
Airbag failed to deploy in a crash
Other electrical problem
Other steering problem
Alternator or charging system failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 13 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 2017 Toyota Camry?
Across 9 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 5,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 5,000 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 2017 Toyota Camry?
13 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 148 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