2003 TOYOTA CAMRY — Complaint #563161
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about CHILD SEAT:SHIELD ASSEMBLY filed November 18, 2005
NHTSA complaint #563161 (ODI reference 10143229) concerns a 2003 TOYOTA CAMRY and was filed on November 18, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 1, 2005. The report was geocoded to Iowa based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as child seat:shield assembly, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 child seat:shield assembly 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 2003 TOYOTA CAMRY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WHEN CONSUMER BUCKLED CHILD IN SEAT SHIELD ARM BROKE OFF ON BOTH SIDES. *TS *NM (11/21/05) *SC
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 563161 |
| ODI Number | 10143229 |
| Date Filed | November 18, 2005 |
| Failure Date | November 1, 2005 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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