Toyota’s best-selling car in the States, the Camry, is under investigation. This time, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is looking into consumer complaints over intermittent loss of assisted braking without warning on 2007-2008MY Camry hybrid models.
NHTSA said it opened an official investigation into the matter that concerns an estimated 30,000 Camry Hybrids from the 2007 and 2008 model years, after identifying 59 complaints alleging braking problems.
“Each complaint alleges multiple incidents of either delayed braking actuation or increased brake pedal effort,” said the federal agency in its report.
“Approximately 40 percent of the incidents (24) occurred at speeds of 40 miles per hour or more. The complaints show an apparent increasing trend, with over 55 percent received within the past eight months,” NHTSA added.
The feds said that two crashes have reportedly been tied to the issue at hand.
There’s no recall at this point, with NHTSA to provide an update on the case as soon as it completes the so-called Preliminary Evaluation phase that assess the cause, scope and frequency of the alleged defect.
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