2004 Toyota Camry air bags problems

79 complaints about air bags have been filed for the 2004 Toyota Camry, which is 10% of all its NHTSA complaints. It is the 3rd most reported problem area for this model year.

Complaints: 79 10% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage: 64,000 miles 60 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires: 47 and 0
Injuries and deaths: 53 and 1

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When air bags problems show up

Based on 60 complaints that include mileage. 45% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.

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Mileage	Complaints
0k to 20k miles	11
20k to 40k miles	7
40k to 60k miles	9
60k to 80k miles	9
80k to 100k miles	4
100k to 120k miles	6
120k to 140k miles	5
140k to 160k miles	4
160k to 180k miles	1
180k to 200k miles	0
200k+ miles	4

What the data shows

Of the 60 air bags complaints that report mileage, the median is about 64,000 miles, and 45% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 47 crashes, 53 injuries, 1 death.

What owners wrote

Difficulty shifting from park to reverse, then upon shifting into drive the car accelerated uncontrollably, would not stop, collided with a mobile home, air bags did not deploy, resulting in the death of one passenger and injury of driver see also voq 10171110. *dsy. Updated 03/05/10 updated ivoq 08/23/10 updated 9/21/2011

March 2004 CrashInjuryDeath

A serious and dangerous flaw exists in the 2004 toyota camry le v6 which the company refuses to correct. Our car contains driver and front passenger side and curtain airbags. This was specificially purchased as optional equipment ($650. Additional) for the safety of the front passenger. The system is such that "airbag on" and "airbag off" indicator lights indicate the activation of the front passenger airbag, side airbag on the passenger seat and front passenger's seat belt ptensioner.

Reported at 500 miles, March 2004

Air bags problems in other years

Air bags problems across all Toyota models