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I brought in my '12 Corolla S in for the 'Heater Relay' recall. From the time I went in until I left was 45 minutes. I was told by the Service Manager that what they installed would allow the heater to work right away when the car started up on a cold morning.

You could at least ask the dealer what the part numbers are.

If you bought the car from a dealer that has a good service department why don't you ask them if they can do it?

I would think you could go to http://www.toyota.com/owners/web/pages/home and see a pdf of the owner's manual for your car.

What horn when locking the car? All I hear is one short 'beep' when you push the button on the key to lock the car.

Just got back from Wyoming. 3,058.1 miles using 85.936 gallons of gas for an overall 35.6 mpg. The highest was 38.7 mpg and the lowest was 32.1 mpg which I got while driving around Dallas. The lowest price on the road was $3.249 and the highest was $3.809. My price of gas at home today, and...

I can't say mpg improved with every tank full. The trip to NY used 9 tanks of gas. I don't commute every day so the miles I put on are different from tank to tank. Starting the end of this week we are going to start traveling with a few trips and ending up in Wyoming in July. I'll be able to...

That was a very informative post but I do have one question. Tomorrow the temperature forecast for where I live is 102 and 103 on Monday. And, we're not even in the hot part of Summer yet. Wouldn't I be better off with 0W-30 oil instead of 0W-20?

So the change in specifications was not due to engineering but to bureaucracy. That just reinforces my plan to switch to 0W-30 when the 25,000 mile free service ends. I've been concerned that the 20 was not sufficient for the 100 degree temperatures we get here and elsewhere in the summer.

I have another question regarding the current oil specifications of 0W-20. For previous model years was the oil specified for the Corolla 5W-30 or something different? I've had three Toyotas previous to the Corolla and they each specified 5W-30. If so, what changed to allow the use of 0W-20...

20 mpg is low; however, I think you're not using a good system. Filling up after 61.4 miles is too soon. Go for at least 300 miles and when you fill up don't top off, just let the pump snap off. Do this each time and you should get truer readings. Also, 30 psi is too low for the tires. They...

I bought my Corolla S last March and included was free service for the first 25,000 miles. Last week it hit 5,000 and brought it in. There's quite a long check list of things they do including rotating the tires. When I got home I looked at the paperwork and noticed that no where did they...

I just read the manual (2012 Corolla) as you mentioned you did and found the following on page 469, last paragraph: The book talks about the '20' in the specifications and says "An oil with a higher viscosity (one with a higher value) may be better suited if the vehicle is operated at high...

The shim/trim pedal thing is actually old news. The deal, as my Toyota Service Manager told me, was they would cut the pedal down, but if I didn't like the result, they would install a new pedal with the proper dimensions. This is what happened. This all came about because the Feds thought...

Just to translate all that into understandable numbers (for me at least) you're getting 27.4 mpg. That's pretty low.

I was looking through the manual for my '12 Corolla and noticed that the rotation pattern for tires Toyota suggests is simply front-to-rear which is what you would use with directional tires. I don't understand the thinking behind this. At The Tire Rack web site they give a number of rotation...

Until recently the oil specified by Toyota was 5W-30. That's what my Tundra requires. However, when 0W-30 became common I switched to that (Mobil 1 Synthetic) and I did notice that 0W-40 was starting to be on the shelve. Now I see with the '12s that Toyota is specifying 0W-20. I'm curious...

I bought my 2012 Corolla S a few weeks ago. Along with the car came free service with free oil and filter changes at every 5,000 miles for the first 25,000 miles. If you got that with your car take advantage of it. Oil and filter changes around here are about $50 each time so save while you can.

I just got my Corolla S a few weeks ago. We took a round trip during spring break from Arkansas to New York state. Overall average mpg was 35.7, best was 37.9, lowest was 31.5. I'm very pleased with the performance of the Corolla on this trip.