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Toyota Camry 2009

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

1.06 per 1,000

2.8 times this nameplate’s own median · from 421 complaints filed in the first three years, of 1405 ever. 95% lower bound 0.96.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.47	204
2009	1.06	421
2010	0.80	274
2011	0.49	154
2012	0.61	216
2013	0.30	124
2014	0.39	161
2015	0.20	84
2016	0.20	81
2017	0.18	69
2018	0.91	331
2019	0.55	186
2020	0.31	99
2021	0.14	43
2022	0.11	33
2023	0.14	42

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Vehicle Speed Control 284 complaints

current	85	30%
mileages	39	14%
current mileages	38	13%
control accelerator	29	10%
campaign	29	10%
mat	24	9%

Structure 240 complaints

dashboard	178	74%
sticky	136	56%
melting	107	44%
glare	99	41%
dashboard melting	42	18%
shiny	40	17%

Engine 219 complaints

oil	174	79%
consumption	96	44%
oil consumption	89	40%
excessive	74	34%
excessive oil	56	26%
oil every	29	13%

When it breaks

31% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 50,970 miles, from 1027 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

4 investigations covering this model year, 2 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 111 complaints about this component over roughly 58 months before an investigation opened.

Power Window Master Switch Fire

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

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Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is verified against a published figure.