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Brakes · 2 owner reports

Master cylinder or brake booster failure on the 2020 Toyota Camry

Only 0 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.

Reports of this failure 2
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $450–$2,200
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 36th

When master cylinder or brake booster failure gets reported

There are 2 reports of master cylinder or brake booster failure on the 2020 Toyota Camry. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 36th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $450–$2,200 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.

This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 13 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2003, at a median of 800 miles, and latest on the 1997 at 145,000 miles.

By volume the 2007 carries the most reports, with 17; the 2020 has 0. 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 master cylinder or brake booster failure
    no odometer readings given
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  2. 1997 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 147k
  3. 1998 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 42k
  4. 1999 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure
    no odometer readings given
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  5. 2000 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 11k
  6. 2001 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 85k
  7. 2002 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 53k
  8. 2003 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 838
  9. 2004 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  10. 2005 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 39k
  11. 2006 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 95k
  12. 2007 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 73k
  13. 2008 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 90k
  14. 2010 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 32k
  15. 2011 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 1k
  16. 2012 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  17. 2014 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 19k
  18. 2015 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 43k
  19. 2017 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 130k
  20. 2018 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 17k
  21. 2019 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure
    no odometer readings given
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  22. 2020 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  23. 2022 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure
    no odometer readings given
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  24. 2025 Toyota Camry master cylinder or brake booster failure 71k

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2020 Toyota Camry

Other engine problem

46 reports median 10k

Other electrical problem

36 reports median 3k

Fuel pump failure

19 reports median 72k

Other powertrain problem

16 reports median 54k

Sunroof failure or glass breakage

12 reports median 8k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 2 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 2 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.

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