`02 Camry-4 auto 2002, 113,500 k
I took the car into a dealer for a code read to see whta the problem was .
Appaently it is the vacuum switch which sits on top of the charcoal canister.
The switch CANNOT be serviced and the unit must be purchased as a whole (switch and canister ) for the princely sum of $624.00 Canadian.
Vacuum switch cannot be purchased seperately as Toyota says it may NOT work ?
- 1.00 labour + 15% tax.which comes to roughly 7+ for a charcoal canister and vacuum switch.installed..
Since I have already committed over $850.00 this year to the air conditioner this would take my maintenance allowance over the top to close to $1500.00 when my allowance for maintenance is $1000.00 per annum.
The shop said they pressurized the switch to see if it worked, and they cleared the fault on the computer but said the check engine light would come back on after a while .
I`m hoping it was some bit of crud holding the vacuum switch from working and the pressurization cleared the obstruction ?.
So far, so good ,no light.
I only need the canister -vacuum switch for emissions control anyway and just having purchased my licence for the year ,I am going to wait `till next year until getting the work done , just before I need to get an emissions check again for my licence.
However if anything else of great expense goes wrong in that next year I will dump this car for a Honda Accord or Hyundai. ,possibly.
Has anyone else got a more economical solution for this problem?
Incidentally , the car runs just like it did before the light came on/