16V396000
SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:SEAT HEATER/COOLER
If damaged, the copper strand heating element may short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire.
1989 TOYOTA CAMRY
1 safety recall campaign, 7 defect investigations, 138 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations7
Owner complaints138
Complaints citing a crash13
Complaints citing a fire4
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 13SEAT BELTS
- 12LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES:DOORS:LATCH
- 12VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 11FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY
- 8STRUCTURE:BODY:DOOR
- 5POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
- 5ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 4SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 1989 TOYOTA CAMRYs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.