Used 2018 Toyota Camry LE 4dr Sedan (2.5L 4cyl 8A) Consumer Reviews
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Car has scraping problems
Luannski, Kingwood, TX, 12/17/2018
updated 12/19/2023
Toyota Camry LE 4dr Sedan (2.5L 4cyl 8A)
7 of 7 people found this review helpful
This car constantly hits bottom or rubs wheel wells on slightly bumpy roads. I'm talking small depressions in road and it scrapes! We took it to the dealer and they said nothing is wrong. The transmission hesitates on acceleration. I'm afraid to try to pass on a country road because of this! 2 yrs later. The scraping problem went away after several months. We finally added more air pressure to the tires than it said we should. It gets 40 mph and is great on long trips. It does sit pretty low and is hard to get in and out for older riders. Interior fabric is impossible to clean. Update! Tires contain Nitrogen instead of air so the pressure fluctuates in different temperatures. It's a pain but luckily Costco has a free pump outside for members during business hours. Otherwise the car has been a great buy and we keep our cars until they die of old age.
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Great Car, SOLVED PROBLEM FOR TRANSMISSION ISSUES,
Randy, Lady Lake, FL, 11/14/2018
updated 11/15/2019
Toyota Camry LE 4dr Sedan (2.5L 4cyl 8A)
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
We had a 2011 Prius for the last 6 years and decided to check out the new cars. The Prius has been flawless. The Toyota dealer gave us a great deal on a new Camry in April, so we decided to sell the Prius and get the Camry. The gas mileage has been great, getting 41 or 42 mpg on a trip, all highway miles doing 75mph steady. We usually average around 35 with mainly in town use. I really regretted buying it until recently because of the transmission. Sometimes when you are stopped or nearly stopped and you suddenly accelerate to get into traffic, there's nothing there. It seems to be stuck in a higher gear, VERY frustrating. I got used to having to pull the transmission lever over into manual position in case it didn't shift into a lower gear to force it into a lower gear when accelerating from a stop or near stop. I recently talked to a salesmen at a new car show and discussed the problem I have been having. He said that the computer controlling the transmission learns your driving habits and responds to that, and he said to drive more aggressively. I started doing that immediately, and problem seems to be a little better. I don't "hot rod" it at all, just accelerate more quickly and the car responds so much better. The gas mileage hasn't seemed to change much since driving that way, maybe 1 or 2 mpg less. I think that driving a Prius for the last several years made me drive the Camry that way, but by doing that it tries to save gas by shifting into the higher gears to make it more economical, you can't do that. Overall a great car, but still miss the Prius some. Hate the new Prius body style since 2016, so won't buy one of those again unless they make them look more like a regular vehicle.. UPDATE November 2019 TRANSMISSION ISSUES SOLVED Current Mileage 31,000 The transmission still was not shifting as it should even driving it more aggresively. Still at times when leaving from a light or stop sign it would have not power and be in a high gear or something, very scary traffic coming and you are trying to accelerate quickly. I finally found the real reason the transmission was acting up. I talked to a service rep in our hometown and told him I wanted to see the service manager, he said he wasn't in that day. I told him my problem with the transmission and he asked if I drive with two feet, I said of course not. What I found out was that I always drove with only my right foot, BUT when sitting at a stop sign, light or waiting to merge into traffic at times I would hold the brake with my left foot. The car is programmed that if your brake light is on and you push the accelerator the car won't go hardly at all for safety reasons and it will lock itself into a higher gear or something. So I keep my left foot on the floor always and the transmission has never acted up once in the last 6 months!! I found myself frequently wanting to put my left foot on the brake after coming to a stop, especially when I was wanting to merge into traffic when the traffic was heavy especially. I love the car now after discovering that whereas before I despised it when the transmission kept acting up.
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okcar, Miami, FL, 01/20/2018
Toyota Camry LE 4dr Sedan (2.5L 4cyl 8A)
9 of 10 people found this review helpful
The navigation system in the car doesn't work if you own an i phone. I have contacted the dealer and Toyota many times since I bought the car in November 2017. it's simply frozen and Toyota hasn't figured out how to fix it yet. No one is willing to help with this issue. I have owned three Camry's before this one and have been very happy with them in the past.
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Toyota engineers should be fired
John, Middletown, NY, 07/04/2018
Toyota Camry LE 4dr Sedan (2.5L 4cyl 8A)
13 of 16 people found this review helpful
Don’t buy this 2018 Camry ...the 8speed transmissions is garbage from the factory..don’t make the mistake and buy this lemon...this review is not about the dealer....this problem is Toyota engineers......get the Honda Accord.....the gears on this lemon shift hard slams the gears and shutters ....poor quality......
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8speed trans problems and Toyota is tight lipped
Aleks M., Valparaiso, IN, 02/06/2019
Toyota Camry LE 4dr Sedan (2.5L 4cyl 8A)
7 of 8 people found this review helpful
This new 8 speed transmission is garbage and the dealers shrugged shoulders and tell you that nothing is wrong. But if you go online and Google "2018 Camry trans problems everyone is explaining the same issues I'm having. The car doesn't know what gear it wants to be in ! The RPMs flutter not knowing what gear to go in. The trans drops bad at rolling stops, acceleration is delayed at an speed rolling or stopped, when the accelerator reacts eventually your head snaps back. But to the dealers they thing this is the way it should drive..... absolutely disheartening! Garbage! Absolutely garbage! Wish I never purchased this car!
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