NHTSA Safety Recalls
2012 Toyota Camry Recalls
The 2012 Toyota Camry has 2 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on October 17, 2013.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2012 Toyota Camry. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 2
- Owner complaints
- 590
- Crashes reported
- 84
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
6 fires
overall, 5 stars max
On a 2012 Toyota Camry, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
2 recalls on the 2012 Toyota Camry
Electrical system
- Campaign
- 13V442000
- Reported
- October 17, 2013
- Vehicles affected
- up to 802,769
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2013 Camry, 2 other models
Air bags: frontal: sensor/control module-inactive
- Campaign
- 13V014000
- Reported
- January 16, 2013
- Vehicles affected
- up to 3,235
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2009–2011 Camry, 15 other models
2012 Toyota Camry complaints by year
NHTSA has received 590 owner complaints about the 2012 Toyota Camry, the newest on October 7, 2026. Of these, 84 describe a crash (14%) and 6 a fire; owners reported 65 injuries.
In complaints about the 2012 Toyota Camry, the component group named most often is the power train (24%), followed by the air bags (13%) and the vehicle speed control (11%).
1 of the 2012 Toyota Camry's 2 recalls also concerns the air bags.
Where 2012 Toyota Camry owners gave the mileage (431 complaints), the median was 40,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Power Train142
- Unknown Or Other81
- Air Bags75
- Vehicle Speed Control67
- Electrical System62
- Structure61
Complaints received, by year
| 2011 | 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 37 | |
| 2013 | 62 | |
| 2014 | 87 | |
| 2015 | 62 | |
| 2016 | 40 | |
| 2017 | 46 | |
| 2018 | 39 | |
| 2019 | 47 | |
| 2020 | 36 | |
| 2021 | 40 | |
| 2022 | 30 | |
| 2023 | 26 | |
| 2024 | 8 | |
| 2025 | 18 | |
| 2026 | 8 |
Complaints about the 2012 Toyota Camry peaked in 2014, when NHTSA received 87. 43% arrived between 2011 and 2015, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2012 vehicles, the 2012 Toyota Camry drew 1.3× the complaints of the median Toyota Camry year in the same window: 8th highest of the 23 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: ★★★★★
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 4/5
The 590 complaints about the 2012 Toyota Camry are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Toyota Camry by model year
Other 2012 Toyota models
Newest record on this page: October 7, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted