Tl* the contact owns a 2008 toyota camry. The contact stated that while driving 5 MPH, the sun visor detached and hung from the housing mechanism, causing the contact's vision to become obscured. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where they advised that he would have to replace the entire visor. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure and current mileages were approximately 71,000.
2008 Toyota Camry visibility complaints
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The sun visor on the passenger side will no longer stay in place. It now dangles and blocks the view of the driver.
Driver side sun visor keeps dropping down. Safety hazard since it obstructs view of the road.
Driver side sun visor will not stay up because I think the clips broke, I understand that this has happened on many other toyota camry cars.
While driving (at various speeds) the sunvisor on the driver's side falls down blocking vision via the front windshield. As a safety measure and to prevent an accident I have taped by sunvisor in the up position to ensure in does not fall down. I called toyota and inquired as to whether there had been a recall and the said no. My only course of action is to pay to have sunvisor changed out.
Sun visor on both driver and passenger side broke and will not stay up
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 toyota camry. The contact stated that while driving 50 MPH, the transmission failed. The contact stated that she was depressing the accelerator pedal but the transmission continued to slip. The contact also stated that the driver's side sun visor was defective and would not remain in an upward position. The vehicle was taken to a dealer for inspection where they stated that the transmission and the visor clip needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified and stated that they would cover half of the repair costs. The failure mileage was 85,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 toyota camry. The contact stated that the passenger and driver's side sun visors failed and would not remain secure in their housing. The contact stated that the failure was caused by defective material. The vehicle was not inspected fro the failure nor repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The VIN was not available. The approximate failure and current mileage was 114,000.
Driver side sun visor support failed while driving. Went to tilt it down and broke loose to a point where it just hangs straight down and swings freely and completely blocking my vision. Had to hold it with one hand until I was safely off the roadway. There is no way it will support itself, so I had to tape or wire it up which makes it useless blocking sun (it's purpose.)
My car is 2008 toyota camry le 4 cylinder. When I drive this car, the sunvisor not so good condition, loose and difficult fix it. Finally it was broken when I return it normal place. It's could not fit anymore. It was very dangerous situation at that time because I couldn't see due to sunvisor drop.
My wife's 2008 toyota camry's sun visor has broken under normal use. The visor just flops down, impairing vision while driving; the visor had to be taken down, this should not happen on a car with only 48,000 miles. This happened about august 23, 2012. This is a safety issue, and should be replaced by toyota for free, not $200+ dollars. I will not pay the dealer fee, so the problem still has not been fixed.
My visor on the drivers side will not stay in the up position or down against towards the windshield blocking the sun. It seems to be defective. I called toyota to see how much it cost to replace the part. I was advised $148.00 for the part. However the previous owner had also had this visor replaced prior to me purchasing the vehicle. This seems to be a big deal with alot of the toyota visors, but yet there is no recall on this item. I would like to have this issue fixed and not at my expense as this is a safety concern. If you put the visor in the up position against the top of the car, it will continue to fall down in front of my view. If you push it forward towards the window it again will come back towards me. If I were to get into an accident, it is right at my head level and could cause severe injury.
Last year my passenger side visor went down with no apparent reason. I didn't think about it much, I thought it was a passenger pulled it down too hard, and I replaced it with a used visor from ebay. Last week, my driver side visor broke and went down, so now I have no visor which creates a safety issue. I started looking online about this issue, and I see a lot of people complaining about this. This is definitely a design/manufacturing flaw from toyota, but I see no recall. I went to the local toyota dealership yesterday to see what they can do. They almost fixed the issue with no cost, but they said they couldn't order a new one until toyota issues the recall. Now I have to wait months before they send me a letter.
While driving on a sunny day, visor repeatedly flopped down, causing moments where the sun blinded my visibility.
Driving down the road and the sun visor flopped down. Will not stay in the up position.
Visor won't stay up in the driver seat it's a driving hazard.
Sun visor broke with only 35500 miles on the car. Driving east to work and west home is seriously dangerous without this visor, which was used under normal conditions (flipped down in the morning, up when parked and flipped down again in the evening). It's dangerous enough driving through 2 construction zones in the morning, but now I have to use one hand to shield my eyes due to the grades I drive and location of sun in the sky. This impedes my driving. I found the broken visor hanging useless after work on day and couldn't tape or rig it up so had to pull it off in order to see out the windshield! What would have happened if this broke during rush hour in construction? Please do something about this problem. Seems like a simple quality issue that should be fixed or recalled due to potentially dangerous driving situation. Plus it's a $32,000 car and quality should be better than that of a $12,000 car.
Both the left and right sun visor failed. The left sun visor fell in such a position as to block the driver's vision. I had to drive home from work holding the sunvisor up and have now taped it in the up position to prevent it from falling down again. I also had to tape the right sun visor in the up position so as not to block my field of view.
The driver side sun visor has dropped and will not stay in place. This is obstructing my view. It is very dangerous. It has hit me in the head. I opened it and saw that many pieces on the inside had melted!
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 toyota camry. The contact stated that the sun visor would continuously fall from its housing, blocking the contacts vision of the roadway while driving. The dealer was notified and told the contact that she would need to replace the sun visor assembly yet the failure was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 5,000 and the current mileage was 87,500. Updated 7/23/12 *cn the consumer stated she had to replace the driver side visor less than one year after the 1st replacement. Also, the passenger side visor had to be replaced. Updated 07/30/12
Driver side visor broke. The visor's suspension no longer holds visor up and its affecting visibility while driving. Customer service was contacted but they refused to take care of it and want to charge $120 to fix it. There are several complaints through out the internet of unhappy customers who are experiencing the same thing. It's unfair that owners are expected to pay for a part that should obviously be recalled. Toyota won't accept responsibility and refuses to acknowledge this problem. Models 07, 08 and 09 seem to be the ones affected. This is a major safety issue and should be consider as such. I shouldn't have to worry about something blocking my vision while driving.
The drivers side sun visor fell down while driving and blocked my vision of the road. It would not stay up and I had to tie it up to prevent it from blocking my vision. It could have caused an accident.
Both sun visors gave way in my fairly new camry only after 3-4 years of use. I keep my toyotas 6 years usually and never had this issue. Visor has always sounded like it was going to break ever since I owned it. Cheap part.
While driving the drivers side visor would not stay up and would not stay in the folded down position. It was hanging freely blocking a clear view while driving. I was able to get to my destination with the help of my wife holding the visor in the up position. I discovered that my only options for fixing this problem were to spend a good sum of money to have the dealer replace it or to just take it off. I opted to remove the visor. I feel this is a safety issue that needs to be addressed by toyota. In doing research I have found numerous complaints from all models of toyota that address this same issue.
Sunvisor failed. Flopped down off of its mount while driving causing quite a surprise. Fortunately, traffic was clear and vehicle control was maintained.
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 toyota camry. The contact stated that the front passenger's sun visor would not hold in the upward position. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The dealer stated that they needed to replace a clip to hold the visor in place. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted. The failure and current mileages were 79,000. ...updated 08-10-12 *bf updated 08/14/2012
Sunvisor has lost all tension and just hangs straight down interfering with visibility on driver's side. Toyota will not assume responsibility when I called and discussed it with them at their customer service center although I have read this is a fairly common problem with camry 2008. Had to remove sunvisor.
First the sun visor on the drivers side broke and it wouldn't stay up, which caused a large blind spot right in front of me and it became dangerous to drive my car. I took it into a toyota dealership, bought a new visor and fixed it. A few weeks later the passenger sun visor broke and it is causing a large blind spot when I am looking for traffic on my left side.
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 toyota camry. The contact stated that both sun visors fell downward and would not stay up. The contact spoke with the dealer and was informed that there were complaints on that failure. The failure mileage was unknown and the current mileage was 48,000. The VIN was unavailable.
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 toyota camry. The contact stated that while driving 55 MPH, the driver's side sun visor broke and was hanging downward. Due to the broken side sun visor, the driver's view was obstructed. Neither the dealer nor the manufacturer were notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 32,000 and the current mileage was 32,100.
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