Toyota Corolla Repair Manual: Outside vehicle
General maintenance
Performing these maintenance checks on the vehicle in the owner’s
responsibility. The owner may
perform the maintenance or take the vehicle to a service center.
Check the parts of the vehicle described below on a daily basis. In most cases,
special tool are not
required. It is recommended that the owner perform these checks.
The procedures for general maintenance are as follows.
1. General notes
- maintenance requirements vary depending on the country.
- Check the maintenance schedule in the owner’s manual supplement.
- Following the maintenance schedule is mandatory.
- Determine the appropriate time to service the vehicle using either miles
driven or time (month) elapsed,
whichever reaches the specification first.
- Maintain similar intervals between periodic maintenance unless noted.
- Failng to check each vehicle part could lead to poor engine performance
and increase exhaust emissions.
2. Tires
- check the tire pressure with a gauge. Make adjustments if
necessary.
- check the surfaces of tires for cuts, damage or excessive wear.
3. Wheel nuts
- check for nuts that are loose or missing. Tighten them if
necessary.
4. Tire rotation
- check the maintenance schedule in the owner’s manual supplement.
5. Windshield wiper blades
- check the blades for wear or cracks when they are unable to wipe
the windshield clean. Replace them
if necessary.
6. Fluid leaks
- check under the vehicle for leaking fuel, oil, water and other
fluids.
- if you smell gasoline fumes or notice any leaks, the cause and
correct it.
7. Doors and engine hood
- all of the doors and the tailgate operate smoothly, and that all
the latches lock securely.
- when the primary latch is released, check if the engine hood
secondary latch prevents the hood from
opening.
General maintenance
Performing these maintenance checks on the vehicle in the owner’s
responsibility. The owner may
perform the maintenance or take the vehicle to a service center.
Check the pa ...
Other materials:
Inspection procedure
1 Check tvip ecu
Check that the operation of the tvip function is normal.
Hint:
with this inspection, the tvip ecu cpu can be diagnosed if it works normally or
not.
2 Check wire harness (tvip ecu integration relay)
Disconnect the tvip ecu and integration relay connectors.
ch ...
Check dlc3
The vehicle’s ecm uses the iso 9141–2 for communication
protocol. The terminal arrangement of the dlc3 complies
with sae j1962 and matches the iso 9141–2 format.
Hint:
if the display shows unable to connect to vehicle
when you have connected the cable of the obd ii scan tool or
the hand–he ...
Terminals of ecu
Oscilloscope wave (*1)
Hint:
terminal: od – gnd
gauge set: 5 v / div, 50 ms / div
condition: during cruise control driving o/d switch on.
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