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:
Turning on the high beam headlights
1 With the headlights on, push the lever away from you to turn on the high beams.
Pull the lever toward you to the center position to turn the high beams off.
2 Pull the lever toward you and release it to flash the high beams once.
You can flash the high beams with the headlights on or off.
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Rear view monitor system
The rear view monitor system assists the driver by displaying guide lines
and an image of the view behind the vehicle while backing up, for example while
parking.
The screen illustrations used in this text are intended as examples, and may
differ from the image that is actually displayed on t ...
Dialing from the contacts list
You can dial a number from the contact data imported from your cellular phone.
The system has one contact for each registered phone. Up to 2500 contacts may be
stored in each contact. 1 Display the phone screen.
2 Select “Contacts” tab.
3 Choose the desired contact to call from the list.
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