2000 Camry Malfunction Light
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From: camryguy on 27 Jul 2010 22:50 Hello, I have a 2000 Camry LE 4 CYL. with 220,000kms on it. Its a great car most of the time, but sometimes I want to take a hammer to it. Back in May, while on the highway, the engine light randomly turned on. When I reached my destination, I called Toyota to book an appointment to get it checked out...before the appointment actually occurred, the light shut off. So I canceled the appointment. fast forward a couple weeks and the light turns back on. It does this turn on, shut off thing many times, so finally its on and stays on. I get the car checked and they scan it and it gives an EVAP code. They said the gas cap was not holding tight and that I should replace it. I replaced it with a genuine Toyota part and everything was going fine until today, when the light turned back on. Should I be concerned? I have heard about the evaporator systems in these cars sucking and costing a pretty penny to fix...any help would be greatly appreciated!
From: camryguy on 30 Jul 2010 09:47 On Jul 27, 11:50 pm, camryguy <anthonyza...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I have a 2000 Camry LE 4 CYL. with 220,000kms on it. Its a > great car most of the time, but sometimes I want to take a hammer to > it. Back in May, while on the highway, the engine light randomly > turned on. When I reached my destination, I called Toyota to book an > appointment to get it checked out...before the appointment actually > occurred, the light shut off. So I canceled the appointment. fast > forward a couple weeks and the light turns back on. It does this turn > on, shut off thing many times, so finally its on and stays on. I get > the car checked and they scan it and it gives an EVAP code. They said > the gas cap was not holding tight and that I should replace it. I > replaced it with a genuine Toyota part and everything was going fine > until today, when the light turned back on. Should I be concerned? I > have heard about the evaporator systems in these cars sucking and > costing a pretty penny to fix...any help would be greatly appreciated! Ok, to update, I bought one of those scanning OBD reader things and got an unexpected code. I got P0401 which is "exhaust gas recirculation flow insufficient detected." Any idea what this means.
From: hls on 31 Jul 2010 17:54
"camryguy" <anthonyzadeh(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:c932fd45- Ok, to update, I bought one of those scanning OBD reader things and got an unexpected code. I got P0401 which is "exhaust gas recirculation flow insufficient detected." Any idea what this means. **Read this http://www.obd-codes.com/p0401 Especially note that the EGR valve is often NOT the problem, even though that is what one might intuit. |