2000 TOYOTA CAMRY — Complaint #309247
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM:DRUM filed August 20, 2001
NHTSA complaint #309247 (ODI reference 894732) concerns a 2000 TOYOTA CAMRY and was filed on August 20, 2001. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 19, 2001. The report was geocoded to Kentucky based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum:drum, 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 service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum:drum 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 2000 TOYOTA CAMRY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WHILE DRIVING 55 MPH THERE WAS VIBRATION IN FRONT END. VEHICLE SLOWED DOWN ON ITS OWN. SMOKE WAS COMING FROM FRONT PASSENGER'S WHEEL. DEALER REPLACED FRONT ROTORS AND TURNED DRUMS. *AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 309247 |
| ODI Number | 894732 |
| Date Filed | August 20, 2001 |
| Failure Date | August 19, 2001 |
| VIN | ADD |
Similar SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM:DRUM Complaints for 2000 TOYOTA CAMRY
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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