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Overheating 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 11
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.3 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $400–$3,500
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 8th

When overheating gets reported

There are 11 reports of overheating on the 2020 Toyota Camry. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 8th 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 $400–$3,500 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 9 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2013, at a median of 15,000 miles, and latest on the 2001 at 270,000 miles.

By volume the 2003 carries the most reports, with 8; 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 overheating
    no odometer readings given
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  2. 1997 Toyota Camry overheating 74k
  3. 1998 Toyota Camry overheating
    no odometer readings given
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  4. 1999 Toyota Camry overheating 133k
  5. 2000 Toyota Camry overheating
    no odometer readings given
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  6. 2001 Toyota Camry overheating 270k
  7. 2002 Toyota Camry overheating 110k
  8. 2003 Toyota Camry overheating 56k
  9. 2004 Toyota Camry overheating 104k
  10. 2005 Toyota Camry overheating 19k
  11. 2007 Toyota Camry overheating 88k
  12. 2008 Toyota Camry overheating 121k
  13. 2009 Toyota Camry overheating 93k
  14. 2011 Toyota Camry overheating 200k
  15. 2013 Toyota Camry overheating 13k
  16. 2018 Toyota Camry overheating
    no odometer readings given
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  17. 2019 Toyota Camry overheating
    no odometer readings given
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  18. 2020 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  19. 2021 Toyota Camry overheating
    no odometer readings given
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  20. 2023 Toyota Camry overheating
    no odometer readings given
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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 11 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 11 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