2010 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER Owners Manual

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If a war ning message is displayed (vehicles with multi-infor mation display)
■Warning buzzer
A buzzer may sound when a warning message is shown on the
multi-information display.
■ If the warning message is shown again after its correction
procedure has been performed
Contact your Toyota deale r as soon as possible.
The multi-information display shows warnings of system malfunc-
tions or incorrectly performe d operations. When a message is
shown, perform corrections as indicated in the message.
Master warning light
The master warning light also comes on or flashes in order to indicate
that a message is currently being displayed on the multi-information
display.
Multi-information display
Warning message
Correction procedure

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If you have a flat tire
Remove the flat tire and replace it with the spare provided.
■Before jacking up the vehicle
●Stop the vehicle on a hard, flat surface.
● Set the parking brake.
● Shift the shift lever to P.
● Stop the engine.
● Turn on the emergency flashers.
■ Location of the spare tire, jack and tools
Jack handle
Adapter
socket Towing eyelet
Jack handle
Wrench
Spare tire
Jack

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Taking out the jack
Remove the right side deck
board.
Unhook the tightening strap and
remove the pad.
After storing the jack, make
sure it is securely held by the
tightening strap.
Loosen
Tighten
STEP1
STEP2
STEP3

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Taking out the spare tireOpen the center deck board and
remove the cover.
Remove the cover.
If it is difficult to remove the
cover, you can use the key.
Attach the adapter socket (for
removing a spare tire) on the
spare tire clamp bolt.
STEP1
STEP2
STEP3

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Assemble the jack handle and
tighten the screw.
Connect the jack handle and the
adapter socket. Turn the jack
handle.
The tire will be lowered com-
pletely to the ground.
Pull out the spare tire and stand
it against the bumper.
Remove the holding bracket.
STEP4
STEP5
STEP6
STEP7

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Replacing a flat tireChock the tires.
Slightly loosen the wheel nuts
(one turn).
STEP1STEP1
Flat tire
Wheel chock
positions
Front
Left-
hand
sideBehind the
rear right-
hand side
tire
Right-
hand
sideBehind the
rear left-
hand side
tire
Rear
Left-
hand
sideIn front of
the front
right-hand
side tire
Right-
hand
sideIn front of
the front
left-hand
side tire
STEP2

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Turn the tire jack portion “A” by
hand until the notch of the jack is
in contact with the jack point.
Raise the vehicle until the tire is
slightly raised off the ground.
Remove all the wheel nuts and
the tire.
When resting the tire on the
ground, place the tire so that the
wheel design faces up to avoid
scratching the wheel surface.
STEP3
STEP4
STEP5

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Installing the tireRemove any dirt or foreign mat-
ter from the wheel contact sur-
face.
If foreign matter is on the wheel
contact surface, the wheel nuts
may loosen while the vehicle is
in motion, and the tire may
come off the vehicle.
Install the tire and loosely tighten each wheel nut by hand by
approximately the same amount.
Vehicles without compact spare tire
Turn the nut washers until they
come into contact with the disc
wheel.
Vehicles with compact spare tire Tighten the nuts until the tapered
portion comes into loose contact
with the disc wheel sheet.
STEP1
STEP2
Disc wheel
Washer
Tapered portion Disc
wheel
sheet