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2001 TOYOTA CAMRY — Complaint #555813

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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:MECHANICAL filed September 25, 2005

NHTSA complaint #555813 (ODI reference 10137547) concerns a 2001 TOYOTA CAMRY and was filed on September 25, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 21, 2005. The vehicle had 58,801 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:conventional:mechanical, 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 parking brake:conventional:mechanical 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 2001 TOYOTA CAMRY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2001 TOYOTA CAMRY
Component
PARKING BRAKE:CONVENTIONAL:MECHANICAL
State
Georgia
Mileage
58,801 mi

Complaint Description

WHILE SETTING THE EMERGENCY BRAKE, THE PLASTIC BUTTON WHICH HOLDS THE BRAKE IN PLACE DETACHED FROM THE HANDLE, AND NOW THE BRAKE WILL NOT HOLD, AND THE PARKING BRAKE NOW DOES NOT STAY SET. I FEEL THAT THIS IS AN UNSAFE SITUATION, BUT I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND ANYBODY WITH THE REPLACEMENT PART. PLEASE CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY WITH A PLAN OF ACTION. THANK YOU, DAVID WISDOM. *JB

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 555813
ODI Number 10137547
Date Filed September 25, 2005
Failure Date September 21, 2005
VIN 4T1BG22K91U

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.