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I'M SAVING MY $ AND ENJOYING A SMOOTH PROBLEM FREE RIDE WITH MY 96'
I'M SAVING MY $ AND ENJOYING A SMOOTH PROBLEM FREE RIDE WITH MY 96' "
There's NOTHING wrong with the 2010 model year Camry LE. The 2010 Camry LE has a "different" and "brand new" engine "and" transmission. The transmission and engine on the 2010 Camry LE is NOT the same one as the ones that are in the 2006 to 2009 Camry LE. It is a whole new engine and transmission and there are NO problems that we know of with them so far.
10K OCI is official for vehicles using synthetic oil
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The notification, dated December 15, 2009, includes a 19 question FAQ.
The included vehicles are:
2010 Toyota Camry (4 cylinder)
2010 Toyota Prius
2010 Toyota Tundra (small V8)
2010 Toyota Sequoia (small V8)
2010 Toyota FJ Crusier
2010 Toyota 4Runner (6 cylinder)
2010 Scion xD
The notification defines "severe use" as:
-mainly being used on dirt/dusty roads
-consistently used to tow trailers or with car-top carriers or heavy load use
-primarily used for short trips below 32 F / 0 C
-extensive idling and low speed driving like police/taxi/door-to-door delivery
Severe use only applies when the majority of your driving falls into the listed special operating conditions. Occaisonal driving under those conditions is not severe use.
There will also be a coupon program available for customers who paid for an oil and filter change at 5000 miles. The coupon will give these customers a free oil change. Customers will be notified in early February 2010.
Images of the notification are attached.
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The notifications will be sent out in due time.
I would say this never happened when I owned a Honda, but I forgot how Honda denies there has been a brake problem with the last couple of years of Accords. Another reason why I made the switch to Camry.
How much is your dealer charging for oil change?
One dealer is doing 5-30w regular oil change and tire rotation for $23.65. check this out..They do the 0-20w oil change and rotation for $43.00 but they only furnish 2 qts. We can buy the other 3 qts elsewhere and bring it in for the oil change. This is almost funny.
10K OCI official
It was confirmed by the Prius Team from the HQ in Torrance on that site right after the 1st of the year. Read the whole thread, in fact there are several there. The explanation is that the official written word is going out this month. Owners will receive a coupon for one free oil change at their local store.
Patience, in good time everybody will be notified. It's no bigee. We were told about it back in mid Dec because we're the largest store by a factor of almost 3 in our large region.
As to the costs...Jiffy Lube here in Hampton Roads wants $79.95 for a synthetic oil change on a 4 cyl engine.
I will wait to see if she will affirm or deny that it is actually from Toyota. I imagine it is but look forward to her reply. I did not get any coupons when I bought my car. The dealer asked me if I received any and I said no. She then told me that they are not giving them out anymore...Well of course not..... My dealer had me down as a 6 cylinder Camry and I had to correct her that is was a 4 cylinder. Geeesh! My 3 month free XM radio expired today. Nice while it lasted.
Jiffy Lube for $80.00!! The price I quoted included tire rotation and 27 point inspection with every oil change. Careful of Jiffy Lube. Either them or Firestone stripped out my old honda oil pan during an oil change. Every Jiffy Lube in my town closed.
I just purchased a 2010 Camry SE in Alabama and the Sales Associate stated that I should get the oil changed at 10k mile intervals and that I should use synthetic oil. I later spoke with a Service Writer a the same dealer and he said the same. The Service Writer also stated that letters would be going out to owners in the next few weeks.
I don't care what the naysayers are saying about the Camry, it's still the one to beat in the midsized sedan segment. I guess now I understand why I see so many on the road and around town!
I have an '07 w/50K miles on it now, and will be buying a new one as another additional vehicle within the next 6 months. The '07 has been a great vehicle.
I had rented a Nissan Altima back in November to drive down to South Florida, and I was very disappointed in that vehicle. I had owned 3 Nissans up until I got my Lexus in 2006. I was always a Nissan fan. But that Altima that I rented, the 4 cylinder engine was noisy, coarse, just awful. Although the car handled well, it was just a big disappointment. I would much rather drive the Camry than the Altima, if that's how the current Altima's drive.
By the way, McDawgg, you mentioned better acceleration on the 2010 Camry. Did Toyota increase the horsepower on the 4 cylinder engine from the '07 to '09 models?
OTH, as everyone knows, quiet and smooth ride is not in Nissan blood. They care more about handling. If you need those 2 features, Toyota is your best options.
You're good. I've seen other people here who try to bash others if they say something bad about Camry.
I don't really care if you or someone say bad things about Nissan that's why they don't buy Nissans. Actually, I was thinking about getting the Accord last month when I shopped for the '10 Altima. However, I'm afraid that when I trade in the car 2-3 years from now, Honda mights not be willing to give me a good deal on their used Honda as Nissan.
I used to drive Toyotas, '97 Avalon, 99 Corolla, '02 Camry, and '03 Solara, before I switched over to Nissans in 2003. I find that I can negotiate better deals w/ Nissan than Toyota.
PS - don't know if you like them, but I found Toyota dealers were pretty aggresive on Camry - I saved over a grand compared to a similar Accord. I also own Honda, but don't find the Camry all that sloppy of a handling car as some feel. It does trade a bit of handling finesse for quiet and smooth cruising, but I was quite comfortable driving it on winding hilly roads.
I don't really drive the Altima, so, I don't really care too much about the noise and handling. I drive the G. However, I like the Altima design more than the Accord or the Camry.
Opp, I don't want to talk too much about other cars here b/c this thread is for Camry 2010.
I read the manual but didn't see the instruction on turning off the light. Is it the same as in the previous models or the 5th gen? Thanks for any feedback.
Please tell me HOW to turn off the light?
Thank You
Another good page to look at is page 333, where it tells you the proper use of the floor mats. If the Lexus dealer in CA would have read and followed that, the big accident would not have happened, and other people would not have had problems with pedals getting stuck down. Note that this manual was printed before the accident happened.
Lots of good info in the Owner's Manual!!
I find it very hard to believe that a State Patrolman could have driven that car that far at those speeds and not released the brake pedal at least once and thereby discovered that the engine RPM decayed as/when he did so. Plus he would have to have been an absolute idiot to have not tried shifting the transaxle into neutral, or even reverse, of in the extreme case into park. "Who" cares if the transaxle self-destructs.
No, the engine/transaxle ECU control firmware found itself a trap door or entered a "deadly embrace".
I have personally experienced the floor mat problem twice over the past ~15 years and in both cases it was my heavy or extreme foot pressure on the brake pedal that was forcing the floor mat, that had slipped up behind it, to depress the gas pedal.
The first time (Mazda Miata test drive) took a little figuring out but the second time (Mazda minivan rental) I recognized the problem immediately.
I do believe there is a glitch in their system that is causing the problem.
Bottom line - just follow the directions on page 333 of the 2010 Owner's Manual, and you will be fine. If I had ANY doubt about the safety of the Camry, I would not be risking my families' lives, because I have 2 Camrys! But, I have no doubts, and can only find people that hope there is a problem and the media that makes it a problem, but NO evidence of a real problem with the electronics. Only the pedal IF you don't follow the directions on page 333. I had pedal interference on an old Ford and Mazda that did not have clips and the mats moved under the pedal and caused it to stick down. Fortunately, I was not in traffic, or there may have been an accident. So I am very sensitive to the situation, not to mention having my whole family in these cars. Anyway, back to the 2010 Camry, a car that I own and enjoy.
I only came on here today to see if anyone had posted about the recall and Toyota finally admitting there was a gas pedal problem and not just the floor mat. Drive safe folks! I guess we hope for the est until our vehicles are fixed. This is very disappointing and potentially dangerous.
Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it will recall millions more vehicles in the United States, its second massive recall in four months, this time to fix potentially faulty accelerator pedals.
The newest recall, affecting 2.3 million vehicles, marked an acknowledgment that potential problems with dangerous acceleration on Toyota vehicles run deeper than the automaker had first announced and broadened a recall that already ranked as its largest ever.
The recalls have damaged Toyota's reputation for market-leading quality and safety at a time when the automaker's U.S. sales remain under pressure.
Toyota had previously maintained that there was no evidence of a mechanical fault linked to reports of unintended acceleration that prompted the recall of about 4.2 million vehicles last year.
The automaker said the recall announced on Thursday was separate from the earlier action, which Toyota said was aimed at addressing the risk that the accelerator pedals could become entrapped by loose or improperly installed floor mats. The latest recall includes the 2009 and 2010 RAV4; the 2009 and 2010 Corolla; the 2009 and 2010 Matrix; the 2005 to 2010 Avalon; the 2007 to 2010 Camry; the 2010 Highlander; the 2007 to 2010 Tundra; and the 2008 to 2010 Sequoia. Toyota said its own investigation in recent months had found that some accelerator pedals on those Toyota brand models might stick in a partially depressed position or return slowly to idle. The problems could occur when the pedal mechanism becomes worn, it said.
I ain't going to worry about it. I will be driving my leased 2010 Camry LE for the next 3 years. So far, I like the car a lot. It drives very smooth and it's very quiet on the road. When my lease is up I am going to give it back to Toyota and lease another one. Preferably a newer 7th generation hybrid Camry.
Historically brakes have been way stronger than engines - didn't matter what the engine did, you hit the brakes and you would stop.
Now you have family sedans pushing 300 hp, and almost exclusively with an automatic transmission. With a stick shift you hit the brakes and the slower you go the slower the engine is turning so it loses hp as you slow down even if it is fighting you. With an AT the car will downshift and regain revs so it is at full strength.
Another issue is that brakes fade. Any car can stop more powerfully than it can accelerate if the brakes are cool. But that may not be the case especially as it may take a while to go into a full panic stop.
Example - your engine starts to race so you instantly slam on the brakes full force, the car fights you and downshifts to gain more power, but you bring it to a stop no problem.
Example 2 - the car starts to race, and you hesitate for a few seconds and gradually push to brake and try to figure out what is happening (brakes heat up a little). This does not seem to do much, but you don't want to slam to a stop in the middle of the highway so you just give a little more pressure (brakes heat up more). You slow a little, but the car shifts down to 4th and gets more power so it keeps accelerating. At this point you are very concerned and apply firm pressure to the brakes, but not yet a full panic stop (brakes are getting really hot) again the car starts to slow, but you have been riding the brakes for long enough that they are beginning to fade and the car shifts down to third for even more power. Now things could get out of hand if you do not apply maximum braking power, and make some good quick decisions.
Of course with the safer transmission type
One more reason to go old school and row your own. :shades:
Thank goodness the 2010 Camry still offers the choice. I hope they continue to for a long time.
One more reason to go old school and row your own.
Its just as easy to put the auto into neutral :shades: . Maybe not easy to remember to do it though if your car is accelerating into traffic on its own power.
You're complaining that you can't drive 15 hours on a tank of gas? How many miles is that trip? Stop and go, or highway?
http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/toyota/toyota-consumer-safety-advisory-102572- .aspx
There's a lot of information on this site but nowhere can I find an official announcement about the 10K miles Oil Change Interval on 2010 cars.
Fill up, and reset your trip meter.
At your next fill up, divide the gallons it took to refill vs miles driven. For example, if you drove 320 miles and the fillup took 16 gallons, you got 20 MPG.