Brakes Failed problems of the 2004 Toyota Camry

I bought a 2004 Camry about a month ago from my local Toyota used car dealer. A week later I told them front-end felt funny and needed to be checked. They said I needed an alignment. Had that done. Called them last week and said I still feel like there's some sort of front-end problem. My brake pedal is spongy and almost to the ground. Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm going to stop in time. Also told them my steering wheel was shimmying. I was told that the steering wheel was probably indicating a tire balance issue and they would charge me $50 to balance/rotate my tires. I decided to put the money toward new front tires instead hoping that would also reduce road noise. As for the brakes. . . . I was told that was standard for the Camry models and was a known design issue but no corrections were in place that they were aware of. Last weekend I was in a crash. My brakes failed! my abs did not engage and my airbag did not deploy. I was traveling about 30-40 mph on a highway when the person in front hit their brakes. I hit mine and continued to skid into the back of their vehicle. I had plenty of room to stop. There's no reason other than brake failure for me to have crashed.

I have experienced severe brake difficulties with my 2004 Toyota Camry. The brakes have been repaired at least three times by the houston dealership, and the problem still exists! the dealership told me that repairing it was the best they could do, and nothing else can be done. Whenever I stop, my brakes will only completely stop at almost 1. 5 inches from the car floor. I need safe and reliable transportation, and I never want to experience the brakes failing to stop or only stopping once it hits the floor. I am 85 years old, make weekly doctor visits on heavily congested houston freeways. I need my car to work properly every time.

Brakes failed to work when going over bumpy roads, aslo brakes do seem to wrok as\ design (to stop) when immediate action is required. I press the brakes when trying to stop and avoid an accident howver the brakes did not appear to work and the car jst kept on going as I the brakes did not exist. I press hard with more than adequate time, however the brakes did not even slow down the vehicle. Something should be done before someone gets seriously injured. I was traveling at about 25-30 miles per hour and the brakes ailed to react as expected.

While driving at 30 mph driver applied the brakes and they failed. Vehicle took longer to stop. As result, it rear ended another vehicle and was side swiped by another. Prior to the crash, consumer took the vehicle to the dealership who found nothing wrong. The consumer stated that the vacuum did not exist. (the pedal was fully depressed to the floorboard).

The contact owns a 2004 Toyota Camry. While driving approximately 35 mph on wet road conditions and attempting to apply the brakes, the vehicle was moving to the left then to the right. The contact turned the hazard lights on and maintained a significant distance between the other vehicles. The vehicle eventually came to a stop. The contact noticed that the failure only occurred when the road was wet. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer who could not duplicate the failure. She called the manufacturer but received no assistance when the complaint was filed. The contact previously filed complaints for similar models she owned under the same manufacturer regarding brake failures; she could not recall the year, make and model of the vehicles. The failure mileage was approximately 100. The current mileage was approximately 20,000.

2004 Toyota Camry experienced sudden brake failure. The consumer was unale to slow the vehicle down the brake failure resulted in an accident which involved 4 vehicles.