Unclassified problem on the 2017 Toyota Camry
9 crashes 1 fire 7 injuries 17 of the 36 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.
Only 17 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When unclassified problem gets reported
Owners of the 2017 Toyota Camry report unclassified problem at a median of 20,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 50,000 miles, from 17 reports that carried an odometer reading.
It is the 39th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 400 miles at the tenth percentile to 75,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 75,837 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
59% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 420 miles | 6,000 miles | 22,060 miles | 51,000 miles | 76,257 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, 9 a crash, 1 a fire and 7 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.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 28 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1998 at 125,000 miles.
By volume the 2007 carries the most reports, with 281; the 2017 has 36. 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.
Unknown part or parts of car.hesitation on acceleration,feels as though engine dying.has happened multiple times on streets,highways,turning,going straight.dangerous at times due to traffic.started within 4 months of purchase.reported to the dealer at the 10,000 mile service.said they could do nothing unless we paid.seems to be getting more frequent.
The body of the side rear view mirrors is blocking a significant area of the driver's view to the right and to the left. The mirrors of average size are part of a body that is excessively large, adding several inches around the area of the mirror. The whole body is installed on a long arm, and blocks the view of the driver towards the right and the left while he/she drives. When turning right or left, I may hit something that I could not see because the mirror blocked it. Pictures attached.
On november 4th, 2017, I was involved in an accident which was determined by the police report to be a hit-and-run accident. We were never able to find the person who hit my car while I was driving. My car was severely damaged as a result of spinning across 7 lanes and hitting the sub-dividers. Please see attached pictures of the vehicle below. Unfortunately, none of the 8 airbags in the car deployed. My face was slammed very hard against the steering wheel as a result of the impact. We reported this to the toyota corporation and they said they needed to do an investigation, which took them more than 2 and a half months, to come to the conclusion that the car performed normally. They sent me some diagrams and other information which was completely incomprehensible. Please see attached documents from the toyota inspection department. I recently sent a letter to toyota corporation requiring a fair resolution to my situation. Please see attached copy of that letter. Everybody I show the car to, including body shops and mechanics, felt that I was very lucky to walk away alive from that car. I am extremely scared to drive this car…
Also reported on the 2017 Toyota Camry
Other brake problem
Other speed control problem
Other body or interior problem
Airbag failed to deploy in a crash
Other electrical problem
Other steering problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 36 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
Complaints are voluntary, so 36 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 unclassified problem happen on the 2017 Toyota Camry?
Across 17 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 20,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 50,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is unclassified problem on the 2017 Toyota Camry?
36 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 409 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