Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full
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Our database holds 13 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 1985 Toyota Camry. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
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THE CAR SIMPLY WON'T START. I'M NOT SURE WHY, BECAUSE THE BATTERY AND ALTERNATOR SEEM TO BE WORKING. AT FIRST, I THOUGHT IT WAS THE STARTER RECALL. I HAD THAT REPAIRED AT A TOYOTA DEALERSHIP. BUT IT'S NOT THE PROBLEM. THE CAR JUST WON'T START, AND IT TURNS OVER TO TRY TO START.
WHILE DRIVING VEHICLE BEGAN TO SHAKE AND CHATTER. CONSUMER PULLED UP INTO A SERVICE STATION AND CHECKED TIRES. SHE COULD NOT SEE ANYTHING WRONG, THERE WERE NO PUNCTURES OF BUBBLES IN THE TIRES. SHE THEN CONTINUED ON HER WAY, BUT ABOUT A MILE DOWN THE HIGHWAY , VEHICLE SHACKED AND CHATTERED. ONLY THIS TIME WHEN SHE GOT OUT OF VEHICLE SHE NOTICED THAT RIGHT TIRE SEPARATED BECAUSE THE TREAD PEELED OFF. THERE 9800 MILES ON THE TIRES. DOUGLAS TIRES , P185 70R13. VEHICLE DID NOT RUN OVER ANYTHING, OR HIT ANYTHING.*AK
TIRE TREAD SEPARATED AND TIRE BLEW OUT ON INTERSTATE.*AK
WHILE TRAVELING ON INTERSTATE CONSUMER WAS SMELLING SMOKE INSIDE VEHICLE. SHE WAS ABLE TO PULL OVER TO SHOULDER. AND TRUNK AREA WAS IN FLAMES.*AK
NO SUMMARY LISTED FOR THIS VEHICLE. *AK
WHEN DRIVING AT ANY SPEED THERE IS A KNOCKING NOISE COMING FROM THE LOWER CONTROL ARM ASSEMBLY WHEN THE CONSUMER IS MAKING A RIGHT OR LEFT TURN. VEHICLE HAS BEEN IN THE SHOP TWICE FOR THE SAME PROBLEM, AND CONSUMER HAS TO TAKE VEHICLE BACK TO THE SHOP SINCE THE PROBLEM HAS REOCCURRED. DEALER CAN'T DETERMINE THE PROBLEM. *AK
SUDDEN ACCELERATION, RESULTING IN LOSS OF CONTROL/CRASH.
FUEL/BRAKE FLUID LEAKED FROM CORRODED METAL TUBING.
BRAKE PEDAL GOES DOWN TO FLOOR. *SD
ENGINE FIRE. *DH
VEHICLE INTERMITTENTLY LOSES POWER WHEN TRAVELING AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS DUE TO TRANSMISSION PROBLEM. *DSH
ENGINE COMPARTMENT FIRE. *SD
REAR BRAKES WEAR OUT EXCESSIVELY. TT
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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