2015 Toyota Camry: headlights failing or too dim

Filed May 26, 2026 · CA · crash · 1 injury

On Friday, December 5, 2025, I was coming out of the driveway at the Jack In The Box on the corner of El Camino & Nobili Avenue in Santa Clara. My foot was on the break as I was going to stop at the end of the driveway to check to see if there was any traffic coming down Nobili before I exited the Jack In The Box driveway. All of a sudden before I even hit the end of the driveway while I had my foot on the brake, the car started to speed up (unintentional acceleration)and I continued to press my foot down harder on the brake, but nothing could stop it. A lot of black smoke came up out of the steering wheel area where it attached to the dashboard & all of the air bags around the car deployed. Then my car completely turned itself around and the front of my car was now facing the driveway that I had just come out of. This torque of acceleration and braking is why my car spun around 180 degrees. The vehicle had sustained damage to the front end, the hood, front bumper cover, right front head lamp was cracked, and the Toyota emblem was missing. (See attached photos taken at the time of the accident) Since all of the air bags in the whole car had completely deployed, I found that the only way I could get out of the car was to slide myself under the air bag that surrounded the driver side door. As I got out of the car, the rib that is directly under my right breast began to hurt very badly and it was hard for me to take a breath with the pain from that rib. I also had a bad headache, too. Plus, the top of my left hand was all red and felt like something had scratched the whole back of my hand. It hurt to touch it. I was also light-headed.The car, I was told, looked like I had hit a wall. The whole left front side of the car was severely mangled - the hood, the fender, and the tire was flat. The shocking thing was that I had not had an encounter with any car, nor had they hit me, to account for this damage.The Police & Fire Dept.& EMT's were called.

Filed Aug 1, 2024 · Brakes, Driver assistance · 84,256 miles · CA

The contact owns a 2015 Toyota Camry. The contact stated while driving 40 MPH and attempting to activate the headlights, the vehicle lost motive power with the ABS and stabili-trak warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was able to restart; however, the failure recurred. The dealer was not contacted, and the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 84,256.

Filed Feb 25, 2021 · Electrical, Lights · 90,000 miles · AL

While driving on interstate headlights would automatically cut off , fuses keep blowing, gear shift locks up, and steering wheel locks up while driving

Filed Oct 25, 2016 · Lights · 9,700 miles · KS

Headlight switch set on auto, some times headlights don't come on at night but dash lights do. Find I'm driving with daylight running lights at night. Thought , at first, that it was my eyesight but when I started car 2-3 hours later I had bright lights. Car said "cancelled" once before this happened but didn't say what was cancelled. Was driving on city streets.

Filed Dec 7, 2015 · Lights · 1,200 miles · FL

Tl* the contact owns a 2015 toyota camry. While driving approximately 30 MPH, the contact approached an intersection and did not see the stop sign. The contact went back to verify why he missed the stop sign and realized the low beam projector headlights only illuminated the immediate area in front of the vehicle. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The contact was advised by the manufacturer that the low beam headlights were designed to illuminate in that manner. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 1,200.