2004 Toyota Camry problems
Owners have filed 799 complaints with NHTSA about the 2004 Toyota Camry. Cruise control is the most reported problem area, at 30% of complaints. Next are steering (10%) and air bags (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 799 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Cruise control 30% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 265 and 16
- Injuries and deaths
- 185 and 7
- Typical mileage
- 47,000 miles 644 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 | 174 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 95 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 106 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 88 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 58 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 43 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 23 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 26 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 8 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 7 |
| 200k+ miles | 16 |
What the data shows
Of the 644 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 47,000 miles. For cruise control specifically, the median reported mileage is about 45,000 miles (193 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 265 complaints mention a crash; 16 complaints mention a fire; 185 injuries reported; 7 deaths reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 97% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2004 ranks 11th most-complained-about out of 35 model years of the Toyota Camry with enough data (483 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 3 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.
My mother and friend started out for church, the friend had come to pick her up when the 2004 toyota camry with less than 3000 miles on it was having difficulty shifting into reverse, then when she shifted into drive the car accelerated uncontrollably est speed on 80 - 92 mile a hour in less than 250 ft when the car hit a mobile home. They hit so hard it moved double wide almost a foot. Killing my mother the passenger and injury to her friend the driver.
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
On april 02, 2007 I had a car accident. I was driving my 2004 toyota camry le door sedan. As I was driving to my way to arizona to visit some family members I was driving in a normal speed out of the sudden the pedal of the accelerator did not work I tried to control my car but it was impossible to stopped the car. As consequence the car flip over and I got injured. On the same week of april 02. 2007 I had taken my csr to a toyota dealer to do a full service.
When I shifted from parking to back, my 2004 toyota camry le went forward instead of backward, which really surprised me. Same situation happened again 20 days later.