The following may indicate that your vehicle is overheating.
Correction procedures
If you do not see steam: carefully lift the hood.
If a large amount of coolant leaks, immediately contact your toyota dealer.
Water can be used in an emergency if coolant is unavailable.
The fans operate when the air conditioning system is turned on immediately after a cold start. Confirm that the fans are operating by checking the fan sound and air flow. If it is difficult to check these, turn the air conditioning system on and off repeatedly. (The fans may not operate in freezing temperatures.)
If the fans are operating: have the vehicle inspected at the nearest toyota dealer.
Caution
When inspecting under the hood of your vehicle
Observe the following precautions.
Failure to do so may result in serious injury such as burns.
Notice
When adding engine coolant
Add coolant slowly after the engine has cooled down sufficiently. Adding cool coolant to a hot engine too quickly can cause damage to the engine.
To prevent damage to the cooling system
Observe the following precautions:
Removal
Table of bolt, screw and nut
Hint:
All bolts, screws and nuts relevant to installing and
removing the instrument panel are shown along with
their alphabet codes in the table below.
Disconnect cable from negative battery
terminal
Caution:
Wait at least 90 seconds after disconne ...
Precaution
Handling precautions for srs airbag
system
Handling precautions for srs airbag system (see
page rs-1).
Handling precautions for steering
column
When handling the steering column assembly.
Avoid any impact to the steering column
assembly, especially to the motor or ...
Mass or volume air flow circuit
Description
The mass air flow (maf) meter is a sensor that measures the amount of air
flowing through the throttle
valve.
The ecm uses this information to determine the fuel injection time and to
provide the appropriate air-fuel
ratio.
Inside the maf meter, there is a heated platinu ...