Engine problems of the 2000 Toyota Camry

Engine caught on fire and car was declared totaled. I was driving in my neighborhood when I smelled horrible burning odor. I put window down to see if someone was burning brush outside. Once window was down, smoke started to pour into driver's compartment, and then I saw the smoke from under the hood of the engine. I immediately pulled onto side street, shut off car, grabbed purse and keys, and ran. Person in street told me car was on fire, which I hadn't been able to see, because the flames were pouring out from under the engine onto the street. I ran and called 911 from cell phone. Two fire trucks came within 5 minutes, and it took them 20 minutes to put out the fire. The engine was totally melted down. I could have died as a result of fumes or being burned and was lucky I wasn't on a highway at high speeds.

The car has 77000 miles on it. Vehicle was well maintained. I took the car to dealer the car for maintenance once in 4000 - 5000 miles. When I was driving at 55 on the freeway I heard a big sound and saw the smoke was coming out from the front panel. I pulled over the car and opened the front panel. I saw fire from two different places. I checked it with my mechanic , and he told me that the connectivity rod #2 came out very next to the oil filter which caused the engine to blew up. I called Toyota and filed the complaint. But Toyota representative told me that they won't replace the engine. The car was bought from the dealer shop, and the dealer was responsible for selling the defective car. I got a defective engine and forced replace it on my own.

I have a 2000 Toyota Camry that has had four engine coil packs fail in a 2 year period. The last time two out of three coil packs failed simultaneously. Luckily I was not on the highway the last time this happened because I could not get the car to shift out of first gear and it would not go faster than 20 mph. The failure occured as I was trying to park my vehicle and the entire engine and car shook as soon as I put the car in reverse and continued to shake as I put it into drive. The first and second times I experienced the coil pack failures (both single failures) I was driving on the freeway and could not get the vehicle to accelerate beyond 35 mph. I had to put my emergency flashers on until I was able to get the vehicle off of the freeway and to a service station.

Toyota Camry with 4 cylinder engine, 2000 should have been covered under sludge policy suddenly seized throwing a rod through the engine block at highway speed. Toyata is refusing to fix due to unable to provide 5 documented oil changes due to husband doing most routine maintenance. Refusing to provide documentation stating documentation requirements.

The oil light illuminated, the vehicle was towed to the dealer and it was determined that is was an oil gel problem.

Consumer states that when the oil in the coolant system gets extremely hot then cold, this results in oil jellint. The oil cannot flow threw the fuel pump, causing the engine to fail. Dealer contacted. Ts.

The se v6 engine is exibiting a rough idle at start, and when stopped. I was advised to clean the throttle boody and injectiors. This did nothing but waste my money. I am begining to believe its sludge or a misaligned camshaft.

Team Toyota was very unresponsive; alleged owner neglect. Oil light came on and immediately slung a rod, no notice nothing. They told me is was sludge although it didn't take them long to make that determination. They couldn't have checked very far because the mechanic that replaced the motot (not a Toyota mechanic) said there was little to no sludge there. I received a letter from Toyota discussing oil gelling this month (July 2002). Maybe they've been having too many owner neglect cases with blown motors!.

When consumer went to start the vehicle, it caught on fire.

The vehicle caught on fire.

The air filter was dirty at 10k miles. Nlm.