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:
Inspection procedure
1 Inspect shift solenoid valve(sl)
Remove the shift solenoid valve sl.
measure the resistance according to the value(s) in the
table below.
Standard:
Connect the positive (+) battery lead to the solenoid connector
terminal, and the negative (–) battery lead to the
so ...
Inspection procedure
Hint:
when the throttle position is slightly opened (the accelerator pedal
is slightly depressed) because a
floor carpet is overlapped on the accelerator pedal, or if not fully
releasing the accelerator pedal, etc.,
Dtc p505 will possibly be detected.
Read freeze frame data using the ...
Playing an audio CD and MP3/WMA/AAC discs (Multimedia system)
CD player operation
Insert disc or select “CD” on the audio source selection screen with a disc
inserted to begin listening to a CD.
Audio control screen
Pressing the “AUDIO” button displays the audio control screen from any screens
of the selected source.
1 Audio source selection sc ...