Toyota Corolla (E120) 2002–2008 Repair Manual / Introduction / Repair instruction / Precaution / For vehicles equipped with catalytic converter
Toyota Corolla (E120): For vehicles equipped with catalytic converter
Caution
: if large amount of unburned fuel flows into the converter, it may cause overheating and a fire hazard.
To prevent this, observe the following precautions.
- Use only unleaded gasoline.
- avoid prolonged idling.
Avoid running the engine at idle speed for more than 20 minutes.
- avoid a spark jump test.
- Perform a spark jump test only when absolutely necessary. Perform this test as rapidly as possible.
- While testing, never race the engine.
- avoid a prolonged engine compression measurement.
Engine compression measurements must be performed as rapidly as possible.
- do not run the engine when the fuel tank is nearly empty. This may cause the engine to misfire and create an extra load on the converter.
Other materials:
Canceling and resuming the constant speed control
1 Pulling the lever toward you cancels the constant speed control.
The speed setting is also canceled when the brakes are applied or the clutch
pedal (manual transmission) is depressed.
2 Pushing the lever up resumes the constant speed control.
Resuming is available when the vehicle speed is mo ...
Dynamic radar cruise control
This dynamic radar cruise
control detects the presence
of vehicles ahead,
determines the current vehicle-
to-vehicle distance, and
operates to maintain a suitable
distance from the vehicle
ahead. The desired
vehicle-to-vehicle distance
can be set by operating the
vehicle-to-vehicle distance
switch.
...
On–vehicle inspection
1. Inspect air–fuel ratio compensation system
Hint:
you can also check the system by choosing ”data monitor”,
then ”o2 sensor output voltage” on the monitor of the
hand–held tester.
Connect the hand–held tester to the terminal 23 (ox1a)
@ 7 (e1) and 21 (ox1b) @ 7 (e1) of ...