2002 SE V6 Camry ECM Calibration

[christos]

I have a 2006 SE V6 Camry and recently experianced a minor hesitation when accelarating between 40 and 60km/h. The toyota mechanic checked the technicians bulletins and discovered someone else had a similar problem and the soloutions was to update the ECM calibration code. I was kind of lucky that the mechanic was smart enough to check the bulletins. The service advisor wanted to start with a minor tune up and eventually work thru a number of different repairs / maintenance services which propably would have never fixed the problem.

My issue was i ended up paying for it. Should this not have been picked up by Toyota? It cost me 100 bucks? Has anyone else experienced this problem? I hate to see someone end up with a service advisor that has never faced this problem.

[TRD VVTi]

Originally Posted by christos

I have a 2006 SE V6 Camry and recently experianced a minor hesitation when accelarating between 40 and 60km/h. The toyota mechanic checked the technicians bulletins and discovered someone else had a similar problem and the soloutions was to update the ECM calibration code. I was kind of lucky that the mechanic was smart enough to check the bulletins. The service advisor wanted to start with a minor tune up and eventually work thru a number of different repairs / maintenance services which propably would have never fixed the problem.

My issue was i ended up paying for it. Should this not have been picked up by Toyota? It cost me 100 bucks? Has anyone else experienced this problem? I hate to see someone end up with a service advisor that has never faced this problem.

Welcome to TN!

You weren't "lucky" that the technician checked for TSB's. That's one of the first steps in diagnostics.

If your car is under warranty, it should have been covered by Toyota. If you're out of warranty, it's your responsibility.

How many miles are on your car?

[christos]

Thanks.

I had about 95,000kms (60000 miles). The warranty has expired, I just thaught it was strange that a faulty or out of date computer code would have a cost attached to it. I guess its "Welcome to the new age in technology."

Any how, I am glad it was rectified.

Regards.

[TRD VVTi]

Oops. Your thread title said 2002 but you stated your car was a 2006 in your first post. That's what I was looking at, and thought that you might have been under warranty. You were already expired by time anyways.

I have yet to know of a manufacturer that provides free ECM calibration updates outside the warranty period.