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Hi, Its all detailed quiet well in the Haynes service manual 2002-6 Corolla edition. First you need to pull off the center knob which reveals a screw which then allows the front panel to unclip and the heater controls move slightly forwards to reveal two securing screws, one at either side, not clear if you need to release both the cables to be able to get to get enough space to get to the 2 bulbs.

I stopped taking mine to the dealer once the warranty was up, FSH be damned! I still bring it in for the Hybrid Health Check, but I do the oil and filters myself. I try and keep the receipts for the service items, hopefully that'll be worth something to the next owner.

Oh that's a good find, well done 😄

update its now January 2019 and the battery light still remains on for a while and the car haven't failed me once what a fantastic little car I would recommend it to anyone .

Thanks for this info. I'm thinking that there's virtually no profit in these silver and gold services so they are cost cutting where they can and engine oil is an easy, 'invisible' way to do so. As another poster suggested, I've just bought 5L of Petronas 0w20 engine oil and will give this to the garage to use each time it goes in for a service from now on. At least this way I know what spec of oil goes into it, but to be honest I'd rather pay a little extra for them to use the correct oil!

I've jut done a simple viscosity test and the results are surprising, using the plastic cap of a large aerosol I drilled a hole in the centre. put my finger over the hole & poured in 0W-20 to the top. let it start running and press my kitchen timer. The result to empty the cup was 1 minute 47 seconds. I cleaned the cup & poured in the oil I had removed from my recently serviced car. After 3 minutes the cup was only half empty so I didn't stand waiting as it had 100% proved my point. So now I have evidence of their lying because they have denied putting in the wrong oil. Perhaps i should invite the manager to come and view a demonstration.

7mm is nowhere near the low mark, it's not even halfway between 2&3, I still work in imperial 😀 and it came to me direct from the factory 1/4" below the top mark so maybe 6mm is closer Filling to the top mark is clearly wrong! If you look in the cars handbook page 127 it shows a diagram of the dipstick numbered 1,2 & 3 (1) is marked as low, (3) which is the top spot on the dipstick is marked as excessive. From that you can presume that the correct level is somewhere between 2 & 3, certainly not on the excessive mark and definitely not 5mm above it as was done to my car and many others from what i have read here, so how can a precise amount result in that? clearly something is wrong at the dealers and the engine is not warmed up so they drain cold oil and don't wait for it to finish trickling out ,