2011 Toyota Camry Hybrid problems
The 2011 Toyota Camry Hybrid has 29 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (24%) concerns brakes. Next are body & structure (17%) and cruise control (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 29 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 24% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 4 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 1 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 60,000 miles 23 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 1 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 8 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 2 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 4 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 7 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 0 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 1 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 0 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 0 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 23 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 60,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 4 complaints mention a crash; 1 injury reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2011 ranks 11th most-complained-about out of 11 model years of the Toyota Camry Hybrid with enough data (17 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 2 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
I had pulled into a parking space, foot on the brake, and hand on shift to put in park, when sudden acceleration started, and could not be stopped by me, my foot was still on the brake, the car was headed to go thru a laboratory window(people inside) I prayed not to hit the building, then my left hand turned the steering wheel fast to the left, missed the lab, and hit the corner of a wall.
Vehicle 2 was stopped for on coming traffic to make a left turn. Vehicle 1 (the 2011 toyota camry hybrid) driver pressed the brake to the floor to make a sudden stop. The car did not seem to respond to the braking. The tires did not skid, the ABS brakes did not engage and the car did not seem to slow down significantly, but seemed to glide into the rear end of vehicle 2. The stopping distance of 3 car lengths at 35 MPH should not have resulted in this type of collision - vehicle 1 was totaled.
The brakes failed on this car january 6, 2016, causing me to collide with the rear end of a truck while going about five miles per hour. I was in normal traffic, on a city street, coming to a slow stop, and as I approached the vehicle about 15 feet in front of me, waiting in line for the turn lane, I depressed the brake, which was hard as a rock. However, the car would not stop; consequently, I hit the other vehicle. I was going so slow that the airbags did not deploy.
On 9/7/13, while accelerating onto route 80 in nj, I pushed the gas pedal to the floor, the accelerator stuck flat on the floor. I had to swerve to avoid hitting the car in front of me. Fortunately nobody was next to me. I was finally able to use the side of my foot to pop it back up. It performed normally after that, though I did not push it to the floor again.
Driver side sun visor became loose and did not retain its position. It dropped down and blocked my vision causing me to veer off the road. Sun visor then detached completely from hinge. Cat now has no way to block sun and I have to drive one handed to block the sun light.