I own a toyota camry 2008 le (4 cyl. ). I had taken my car in for servicing several times (normal oil changes), the dealer noticed that the dashboard was getting shiny, disintegrating and falling apart. They took photos of it and told me they would replace it when toyota granted them permission to do so. On june 19, 2014, I was called by a female from the dealer and told that they would replace the part ( allegedly the part costs $2200.00, and they would bear the costs of the part), but since I was not the original owner, but second owner, I would have to pay labor costs of $525.00. Obviously, I do not want to part with $525.00 for a faulty, cheap, badly engineered part which has safety issues and or design flaws, and replace it with another one of the same kind. If replacing the dashboard is a safety issue, it should not matter if you are the original owner or not. I thought that the standard to be used is whether the car is safe or not. Apparently toyota has forgotten about making cars safe.
2008 Toyota Camry visibility complaints
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I bought my 2008 toyota camry in september 2012 and shortly after the dashboard started melting. It is now very sticky and continues to melt. Because of the melting, the windshield produces a glare and makes driving very difficult during the day. I cannot drive unless I am wearing polarized sunglasses, which helps minimize the glare. I do not feel safe driving this vehicle because of the constant glare on the windshield from the reflection of the melting dashboard. I am especially nervous when I have to drive my 10 month old niece around! Nothing will clean the dashboard and it continues to melt becoming stickier which in turns causes every little particle of lint, dust, grime, etc to stick to the dashboard. I even use a sunshade daily to help keep my car cooler and I also park in the garage at home, but the dash still melts and is sticky. Absolutely disgusted with toyota's quality!
The driver's side sun visor dropped down, completely blocking my vision and no longer stays in place making it a permanent safety hazard to the point where the car in no longer drivable. Checking the internet, I found out that this is a widespread problem. However, the dealer tells me that there is no safety recall for this problem.
I am submitting this complaint, because I have had several near collisions due to poor windshield visibility caused by melting dashboard on my 2008, toyota camry. I first notified toyota corporate of the problem with the dashboard deteriorating in sept of 2012 and was told it was not a warrantied item. The first near accident due to poor visibility(sticky residue on windshield) occurred in oct, 201. I mentioned the melting dashboard problem and visibility to my dealer(ed morse toyota, del ray, fl) at my next oil change and they quoted me a price of $1760.66 to repair, sometime around oct 2012. The residue has become increasingly worse and due to my age(81) it is very difficult to clean off the windshield using standard household products. After watching a news report on wflx, west palm beach by [xxx] I called again(may 2, 2014) and was given a case number. To date I have never heard back from toyota...I am anxious about driving the car due to this obvious defect. Do I have any recourse? Information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
The dashboard on the camry is melting in the texas sun. The car is parked inside our garage except for the early mornings. When it is hotter than 75 outside the dash becomes extremely soft and sticky. When it gets above 80 the dash starts to get shiny, real shiny to where it reflects on the inside of the windshield making it difficult to see. Additionally the off gassing from the dash causes a film on the windshield that has to be cleaned every weekend. I have searched online for repairs/remedies and have come across hundreds if not thousands of owners in hot climate zones with the same exact issue on their camry and lexus of the same production model years.
The driver side visor would not stay up and it started to hang down. Now the visor is totally loose and obstructing my vision while driving. The dealer says that there is no recall - but the internet and the federal safety agency has many complaints about this problem. Toyota should issue a recall on this.
The sun visor does not stay in place and there is no recall. Toyota wants to charge me $200 to fix a safety issue.
The drivers side visor will not stay up. Very dangerous. My husband is taller and it affects his range ov vision and plus it is annoying. Looked online and see that there have been problems with the visors. I am taking it to a dealer to see if its covered under my warranty, if not, I will contact toyota directly to correct this very dangerous situation.
The sun visor on the driver's side of my camry has come loose and it drops into my view while driving. Other people have posted the same complaint.
Alot of people have complain about this issue but it doesn't seem like anything is done to correct the issue. A year ago, the visor on the driver side droop alittle and my husband tried to fix it but it broke and was hanging. We end up purchasing a new visor for about $100 and I don't want to use it because of the risk of having to pay another $100 to fix it. Just recently, the visor on the passenger side broke and now it is hanging. It is dangerous for me because I'm on the highway all the time and the visor become a safety hazard because it blocks my view from seeing other vehicle merging in or switching lane. There should be a recall on fixing this issue as it is dangerous.
Due to the deterioration of the dashboard, where it is basically melting and very shiny and sticky, when driving in the direction of the sun, the suns rays reflecting off of the dash basically are a blinding factor on visibility of the driver. It is very difficult to see clearly through the windshield. I contacted toyota care center and explained the issue with the dash deterioration to them. Their rep acknowledged they recognized other owners had reported an issue with the dash but unless the car was under original warranty, they can not do anything to rectify the situation. The rep also noted toyota determined the cause to be "environmental" and primarily occurring in florida, where I live. In researching other owners complaints on-line, this issue is clearly systemic. And, there are other complaints of this condition effecting visibility. Has the federal safety agency investigated the potential safety concern to the public due to toyota's systemic defect in 2008 and 2007 camry's they have sold? I can provide photos upon request.
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 toyota camry. The contact stated that the windshield exhibited an abnormal glare, causing the contact's vision to become impaired. The contact stated the glare was due to a sticky dashboard. The contact took the vehicle to the dealer, who stated that the entire dash board needed to be replaced. The contact did not have the dashboard replaced. The failure mileage was 81,000.
On or around this date my driver side visor began to droop. It would slowly drop & over the course of a few months completely dropped, you couldn't put it back into its upright position, or any position & it obscured my visibility. I took it to my dealer & they replaced it at no charge because it was still under factory warranty. The guy in the service department said that the visors were breaking and that it was known. They wouldn't replace my passenger one (even though they knew it would break) because it was not broken. I tried to tell him that being the driver's side that was dangerous because I couldn't see with it just hanging there. Well, low and behold, after my warranty ran out my passenger one broke. I just took it down, my husband tried to fix it but couldn't. I can't afford to replace it. Now the driver's side one that I initially replaced is breaking again!!! Same problem. I can not and will not dish out almost $200 freaking dollars every time one of these breaks!!! This needs to be recalled and fixed!! Especially for the driver's side because that is dangerous!!! You cannot see out of the windshield when that is just hanging in the way. If you take it down then the sun is in your eyes, and that is dangerous. Why is it that people cannot see that this problem makes visibility very bad or you have none at all when this happens??
After 95,000 miles of usage the sun visor has decided to come apart and I'm no longer able to use it to block the sun or store it in a safe manner. Every passing day it seems the visor gets lower and lower until I can no longer see the road correctly. I almost have to drive holding the sun visor up. It doesn't feel safe but I don't yet have the funds to replace it. And even if I did replace it, it's only a matter of time before it happens again from what I've been reading.
The driver side visor just flopped down and blocked my view...
My sun visors on both sides have messed up and now have both been replaced. My cd player also started messing up earlier this year. It says there's a cd in, but there's not. You can't load a cd or eject it. The service center at the toyota dealership told me they don't see anything jammed in there and that I would be better off replacing it with an aftermarket stereo system b/c it would be cheaper and they would have to send my car off to have it fixed. Hopefully, I'm not the only one experiencing this problem and a recall will be issued!
Driver's side sun visor will not stay up, swings down.
Passenger sun visor fell from it's folded position from ceiling. 2 or 3 days later the visor completely falls off the support arm altogether. Not even in use during either incident. No passenger even in the seat using the visor. 1-2 weeks later the same thing occurs with the driver's visor. This is a known issue with all 2007-2008 camry's. Toyota has extended the warranty for the sun visors for all camry's built in the u.s.a., but has elected not to offer this extended warranty to it's owners of the japanese built models (such as mine). The visors are only available through toyota for replacement and they ask $230 per visor plus labor for install (over $500 when all is said and done). Upon calling toyota customer service to ask why they aren't offering the extended warranty for japanese built models that are having the exact same issue as their american-built counterparts they had no answers for me. They did offer to extend me a one-time credit for $250 in repairs to offset the cost of their inferior product and known problem. This doesn't even cover 50% of the cost of parts and labor to have both of the visors repaired.
Driver's side sun visor will not stay up, swings down.
Driver side sun visor/shade is not functioning properly. The visor won't stay up, it flops down and is difficult to see to drive. I can see there are numerous complaints on the internet about 2007/2008 toyota camry models. It is a driving hazard and should be recalled to replace it.
A noise is coming from the sunroof that sounds like metal against metal when backing out of the drive way or going around a corner or over a bump. I have owned 3 toyotas and I have never been so frustrated as I am with owning this toyota 2008 camry. From the beginning the car has had problems with the brakes that cause the steering wheel to shake, the sunvisors falling, the rear wheel bearing to be replaced and now the sunroof. I'm taking time to write this because I want owners of toyota to be aware of how poorly toyota is handling these problem. Toyota has stalled taking action so that when the warranty runs out than is the owners responsibility to pay for the repair. Shame on toyota. Instead of spending so much time in learning how to avoid doing the right thing they should concentrate on doing the responsible thing. Toyota you lost a loyal customer. Sincerely
My driver side sun visor is not functioning and it would not lift back up. It only has 33,000 miles on the car. Searched online and found a lot of complaints about the same problem.
The driver side sun visor has started drooping. The internal tension mechanism of the sun visor no longer holds it in position and now it hangs straight down. When looking at it closer, the visor pulled completely off the metal rod that attaches to the roof.
Sun visor on the driver side has come out of its housing and dangles dangerously in the drivers line of vision. Visor will not go back up nor will it come off the assembly without causing damage to the visor.
The passenger visor no longer stays in the proper position, it flops. This happened with my drivers side about a year ago. Must be made bad is all I can figure.
The sun visor on the drivers side of the vehicle no longer stays in the "up" position resting against the roof. The visor hangs at dangerous eye level because the spring mechanism to hold the visor in the resting position against the roof is defective. I've researched this issue online and seen several complaints. This is extremely dangerous situation in traffic when the visor suddenly falls and blocks the sight of the driver.
My visor on the driver side was wobbling around and would get in my way of driving numerous times. One day the entire visor finally just fell off and within two weeks my passenger side visor did the same thing. This should be a recall, it impairs your driving when the visor starts malfunctioning and if the sun is out and there is now now visor, the glare could prevent a driver from seeing someone or another vehicle. Toyota needs to step up and cover this issue.
Prior to july 17, 2010, the driver's side visor, had loosen up/broke and would not stay in place. This was a hazard and I had to have it replaced. The passenger's side visor began making noise similar to the driver's side when it first started, then the noise was louder. We received a "warranty enhance notice" where toyota motor sales, u.s.a., inc. Was informing us about extending the warranty of the visors for a period of 7 years. They also stated that they would reimbursed the owners that had them replaced and we needed to submit a copy of the repair order, proof of payment, and proof of ownership. We submitted the repair order from the toyota dealer that replaced the driver's side visor which is also proof that the dealer was paid for, and a copy of the registration; no dealer let's you leave without paying or make invoices as a favor for consumers; plus the fact that they are representatives of the manufacturer. Well, to our surprise they wanted a receipt on how this bill was paid. This is a tactic of the manufacturer or the consumer service department to avoid or delay the reimbursement process and to discourage consumers from pursuing their claims. The dealer replaced the other visor at no charge. The driver's side visor is begining to make the same noise as the previous one, not even two years from the time it was replaced.
The sun visor on the drivers side will not stay up causing visibility issues, especially for taller drivers. The passengers side is starting to droop too so I know it won't be long before it goes too. Toyota dealership will not replace this and it will cost $150 per side plus tax. This should be a recall, it is a safety hazard.
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 toyota camry. The contact stated that the weather stripping that was around the windshield malfunctioned, allowing excessive air and water to leak inside the vehicle. The contact took the vehicle to the dealer. The dealer advised that the entire windshield needed to be replaced. The contact did not have the windshield replaced. The failure mileage was 82,000.
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