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If you still cannot start your car but now that your starter make noises(starter+battery are working now) while you turn the car key, your fuel injection distributor (a black cap that connect electricity to all your spark-plugs) is out. It happened to me 3 years ago.
Good luck.
This switch is located directly under the key cylinder, and can usually be accessed fairly easily by removing some plastic shrouds over the steering column.
I have an '05 Corolla LE. Last night, I noticed that there was a small, but definite stream of hot air coming through the dashboard vents even though the fan control was in the OFF position. (The temperature control had been turned all the way to hot.) I also noticed that when I turned the temperature control all the way to cold, the air through the vents cooled off. The A/C was off, as was the recirculator. The dial on the left was set to blow air through the dashboard vents only.
This is my first car (so maybe I just don't get the concept), but I would have thought that with the fan off, *nothing* would be blowing out of the vents. Am I wrong? Does the temperature control actually do something even when the fan is off?
Thanks so much!
SDE
Thanks so much for the info!
SDE
We put Michelin Harmonys on our Toyota Camry about a year ago. They are quiet on bare pavement, and good in wet weather. Performance in several inches of snow is also good. Being a Michelin product I expect they will be long lasting. I recommend them highly.
Wal-Mart sells an almost identical tire under the Michelin Symmetry name for about $30 a tire less. If I had known about Symmetrys at the time I would have bought them instead.
when i start my car in the morning and go in the first two gears, it stars jumping a little. when i keep the clutch pressed half way i can get rid of this. But then some times, when i am driving on the second gear, and leave the throttle (to slow down), it starts jumping. Does anyone have a similar problem? does anyone know wht the probs might be?
i warm up the car for around 5 minutes before taking her out.
I have an 02 Corolla LE and while driving to work this morning, huming along @ 70+ I heard a little "boom" and lost power briefly and then the car resumed speed...my heater was on. Later, while at lunch, I started the car--I forgot to turn off the heater and the car wouldnt start and hold an idle. I turned the heater/fan (it was on "high"...I wanted to listen to the engine) and as soon as I turned the heater/fan off...the engine started right up and it idled just like nothing happened. I called Advanced Auto to get an opinion...a guy I talked to said that I should check the vaccum. When I got home, I let the car idle again and turned on the fan to low and heard a "whosh" and the engine struggled to idle....turn it off, works fine. I really don't want to take it the dealer, especially when the tech I spoke, doing his best Wizard of Oz cowardly lion impression, cheerfully told me that "it could be about anything".
thanks,
Smithy :sick:
My experience with pushing down on a vehicle's corners has been that this will only tell if the shocks are *really* bad, not if they're due for replacement.
2000 Corolla, we've owned it for 3 years and haven't had this problem before.
Last week Monday: had a very difficult time unlocking the door from the outside with the key. It finally opened but then the door wouldn't latch. It just swung open. Shut the door a lot (not knowing what else to do, couldn't lock it closed, etc.) and eventually it latched. Drove home. Kind of forgot about it as the door worked fine when we got home.
Tues, Wed: Drove the car, used the door. No problems.
Thursday: In the AM, the door was fine. In the PM, although the door hadn't been locked it wouldn't latch when shut. Shut it, slammed it...nothing. Hit the power lock and it instantly power unlocked itself. At one point it acted like it was trying to engage the power lock but it jumped into power unlock over and over again (without me touching the button). Kept trying to engage the latch by shutting the door (which felt futile but I didn't know what else to do) and suddenly it worked.
Friday, Sat, Sunday: Only drove the car once and the door latched and thus, we forgot about it.
Today: Realized a holiday is coming and we want to drive the car a long distance. Am afraid to take it unless I decide to crawl out the passenger side door (and bring duct tape).
Help! Has this happened to anyone before (even if it wasn't in a Corolla)? What was the cure? Do you think there's a chance the door would just unlatch itself while we're driving down the freeway? <--very scary thought.
What do you think the mechanic will say? Can they even figure out what's wrong if it isn't wrong at the time I bring the car in?
Thanks.
the car to a locksmith to get a new key or have him look
at it. He told me the large head Toyota keys give a
problem and he sprayed one shot of wd4 in the key ignition
and the end of my problem. I had been advised by
different car places that I needed a new starter.
Saved alot of money ! Troubles with starting were over
immediately. Worth a try.
Good luck
Ken
Also, yesterday after driving the car with cruise control on 68 mph (with less than 3000 rpm) for a few miles, suddenly I heard the engine roaring with the RPM needle soaring above 4000 before I turned off the cruise control with horror. The symptom recurred a couple of minutes later after I turned on the cruise control again. The problem didn't come back the third time with cruise control on.
Any thoughts?
As I recall, when we last heard from you, you were going to buy some shocks online at shockwarehouse.com for $26 each, and get them installed at the automotive hobby shop at Wright-Patt AFB. I think most of us thought this sounded like a good plan, and were expecting (perhaps) to hear how it turned out.
Are you buying your gas at the same place?
Water in the fuel usually comes from leaks in the underground tanks. Try shopping around.
Dealer mechanics will often say "it could be anything" just to cover themselves, even if they have a good idea of what might be causing the problem.
I don't know Corollas that well, but I do know that a lot of cars use engine vacuum to actuate the heater controls. It sounds as though you have a serious rupture in a hose under the dashboard going from this system to the engine.
Are you also having a problem changing from the foot vents to the dash vents to the windshield vents? That, along with the "boom" and "whoosh" you describe, would confirm this.
I am mad because my 2005 Corolla LE with the Desert Sand Mica paint seems to be easily chipped off on the front bumper of the car. I have driven mostly interstate and highway miles and i see other Corollas from like 2003 with better paint and no chips on the front bumper. I am forced to take the front bumper and hood to be repainted by Toyota. I am so upset cause I thought the paint from someone like Toyota would be durable enough to stand up to regular old road particles. Does anyone know how much that could run for repainting the front bumper cover and hood?
Any advise would be great.
The revving of the engine while driving with cruise control means that *something* is signalling the transmission, either to downshift or to disable the overdrive. Since this doesn't happen with cruise control off, the cruise control would definitely be a suspect.
Unfortunately, unless a mechanic can duplicate this problem, there's about a 0% chance of getting this fixed.
That said, however, it's probably a good idea to bring it to the dealer while it's still under warranty, just so they have a record of this problem. Same with the hesitation.
BTW, occasionally they do find something.