2006 Toyota Camry Transmission Leak @ 5,000 miles

As long as you have the receipts for oil changes it should be fine.

Toyota will replace the pan gasket (was this the place?) or hoses under warranty, no problem. The bummer is that JD Powers surveys and the postings here suggest Camry quality isn't what it used to be as Toyota pushed for the volume. But at least the car's street price has remained flat over a decade.

I've seen about 1/3 of the newer camrys leak at the rear right corner of the transmission pan gasket. It's a very easy fix, takes 20 - 30 minutes.

Thanks guys, I'm a little more at ease about this now. I knew everything was covered under warranty but still, I was just a little rattled because the car is new.

I'm going in to Toyota first thing in the A.M.

It seems like Toyota is learning a lot from GM.

No, not even close. I continue to be amazed every time a do work to GMs. Take for example this trans pan gasket I'm talking about. If you are to see any leak at all on the new Camry with the 3MZ-FE, then I guarantee that it will be a leak from the rear corner of the transmission pan gasket, and nowhere else. On the previous gen corolla, it will be the timing chain tensioner gasket, and if there is a rattle in an 01-04 Tacoma, it will be in the dash pad at the top near the windshield. Seems like even though we are seeing more problems on these newer Toyotas, they are not major and their ability to consistently produce good cars shows in the fact that these problems are isolated to one very specific area. GMs, by contrast, offer a world of different problems. When I'm standing there putting one on my lift, I have to go from "Toyota" mode to "GM" mode. This means that absolutely anything could be wrong with this vehicle, regardless of age & mileage. Locked up calipers, leaking accumulator seal, crossthreaded sub-frame bolts, blown shocks, bad bearings, poor grounds, you name it, and its a possibility on these cars. Got a new Malibu with a rattle from the engine? Who the hell knows, could be anything. Anyhow, my point is that Toyota has a LONG way to go (down) yet before they begin to match GM in quality.

What's the problem exactly? Improperly torqued tranny pan bolts? Defective gasket? Improperly installed gasket?

like someone in a previous post said earlier, Toyota is focusing more now on quantity instead of quality. Not to say that toyota vehicles are way better then most cause they are.

Thats been GM's problem all along. They pump out cars in great numbers and ignore minor details and quality issues. Thats why they make junk and will continue to make junk.