2007 TOYOTA CAMRY — Complaint #1761438
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NHTSA Complaint about VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:THROTTLE:THROTTLE POSITION SENSOR (TPS) filed August 5, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1761438 (ODI reference 11427831) concerns a 2007 TOYOTA CAMRY and was filed on August 5, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 1, 2018. The vehicle had 75,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as vehicle speed control:throttle:throttle position sensor (tps), one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same TOYOTA CAMRY cohort independently describe similar vehicle speed control:throttle:throttle position sensor (tps) failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2007 TOYOTA CAMRY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2007 Toyota Camry. The contact stated that upon starting the vehicle, the vehicle independently lunged forward while his foot was on the brake pedal and shifting gears without warning. The contact also stated that the failure would occur upon attempting to park the vehicle also while his foot was on the brake pedal and shifting gears. The contact stated that the failure was random and that the RPM's would rev up during the failure. The contact stated that upon his own investigation and inspection of the vehicle, he linked the failure to a worn throttle position sensor. Neither the dealer nor the manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 75,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1761438 |
| ODI Number | 11427831 |
| Date Filed | August 5, 2021 |
| Failure Date | August 1, 2018 |
| VIN | 4T1BE46KX7U |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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