2006 Toyota Camry: headlights failing or too dim

Filed Nov 20, 2013 · Airbags, Body · 89,065 miles · GA · crash

Driving home from work I hit a large deer, approximately 200 pounds, at 45 MPH, direct front end contact, causing damage to the whole front hood, grille, both front fenders, radiator, headlights, air conditioning system. Air bags did not deploy, no injury to me. Received my car from the body shop october 25th and everything looked great. After driving approximately 800 miles noticed a little body misalignment and on the 18th of october I drove to the body shop to have them look at the alignment problem and check the air bag warning light. They are working on the body issue, which I could care less about, however, after doing a scan of the car systems, with the hand held scanner, the air bag warning is not a sensor issue due to the collision with the deer, but it is in the passenger seat sensor/wiring which should be a toyota issue. I have researched this and there are several complaints online, but I have not seen a re-call from toyota, the fix for this situation is to replace the passenger seat at a cost of about $3400.00. My biggest concern is why did the air bags not deploy and now is the total air bag system not functioning?

Filed Jun 13, 2011 · Lights, Steering · 63,000 miles · MD

Tl* the contact owns a 2006 toyota camry. The contact stated that when driving 45 MPH and above or when attempting a turn, the vehicle would exhibit an abnormally loud noise. The vehicle was inspected by an independent mechanic and they advised her to replace the steering knuckle and wheel. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and they offered no assistance. In addition, she noticed that the headlight cover appeared to be extremely foggy. The vehicle was inspected by an independent mechanic and they advised her that they would have to clean the headlight cover with a special chemical. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and offered no assistance. The failure mileage was approximately 63,000.

Filed Aug 20, 2008 · Lights · AL

My mother has a 2006 toyota camry. At night, I noticed her driving without her headlights on. I stopped her, and we got her headlights on. Later, I was driving her camry at night, and I noticed the instrument lights were on, but the headlights were off. The only setting to get the headlights on turned off the instruments lights. This is a dangerous situation. I went to the huntsville toyota dealership. A mechanic jiggled the switch, and everything went back to normal. It is obvious the toyota mechanics know about this problem and know how to fix it. Now, I have to worry everytime I or my mom drive the camry that we don't jiggle the switch to cause the above problem. It is a major inconvenience and a safety hazard because one day we may forget and accidentally jiggle the switch and drive at night with the instruments light on and the headlights off. The headlight switch must be recalled!!!!

Filed May 22, 2006 · Visibility · 150 miles · FL

The defogger wires in the rear window reflect headlights and glare from behind the vehicle. It creates a prism effect, with 10-12 lines showing both above and below each and every headlight or bright light source behind the vehicle. The image you see in your rear-view mirror is false, misleading and distracting. Changing tint and/or mirror does not affect the problem. The rear windows need to be replaced with a different design that includes defogger wires that have a non-reflective surface.

Filed May 15, 2006 · Lights · TX

The 2006 toyota camry uses the high beam headlamps for daytime running lights. The configuration of the lamp assembly places the turn signals immediately inboard of the drls. According to fmvss 108, s 5.5.11(a).4: "if not optically combined with a turn signal lamp, is located so that the distance from its lighted edge to the optical center of the nearest turn signal lamp is not less than 100 mm" the drl implementation on the 2006 camry appears to be in violation of this standard. A qualitative observation of the camry at an intersection shows that the turn signal is significantly masked by the adjacent high beam drls. The federal safety agency issued a recall for a similar problem with the toyota celica a few years ago: the federal safety agency campaign id number : 04v566000 recall date : nov 23, 2004 recommended action of the federal safety agency: investigate compliance of 2006 camry drls with spec in no. 108 and issue recall if camry is non-compliant. Recommended action of toyota: if defective, disable all drl functionality. The benefits of drls are not proven, and drls are not required in the us.