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or the alternative title would be: how I tried to downshift out of D drive and into 3rd while going downhill -- and broke my car. OK -- I'm driving down from Mt Rogers in Virginia, doing 25mph and riding the brake, and I want to have the engine do the work for me. Moving the automatic trannie...

OK -- it's been a few weeks since I tried Burts suggestion. It worked. I had to fully close the unit, then hold the button down for 15-20 seconds until the window did a little bump. Then repeated with the window open. After the second trial, all works again. I did wd40 all of the visible...

Sunroof automatic controls gone, but switch works Wow -- my sunroof started this yesterday. I thought the kids had been playing with the switch -- the switch allows me to fully open or fully tilt the sunroof in my 2003, but it's automatic functions for opening, closing or tilting up or down...

Just ahd a key made... lights came on I have a 2003 4Runner 2wd with the V6 and automatic. Went to the dealer to have a spare key made. Drove away a half hour later and $120 out of pocket. Noted both lights had come on. Coincidence? I don't know. Stopped the vehicle, turned it off...

Are you sure? Than Omron has five posts (a middle post on the right side, pin 4). The one out of my vehicle only had four posts. Does that socket in the fuse bank have the fifth slot (presumably unwired)? I can't recall from the 90 seconds I was under the hood.

Autozone has the 02022 replacement for $28 Every once in a while, the Internet redeems itself from all the nonsense and lowest-common-denominator information. This thread is one of those times. 118k on my '03 and today the blinking A/C light starts. Luckily just past the worst of our...