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I suspect you meant to say a dent in the fuel TANK.
These days most fuel pumps are located inside the fuel tank.
If it is a fairly serious DENT then ask the dealer if they're sure it isn't/wasn't caused by the intentional VACUUM within the fuel system.
A rock "hit" would leave a mark/scratch of some kind.
Something more annoying is happening lately. When I turn the car 90 degrees like into the garage or a parking space, I hear a noise in the steering wheel. I am going to ask about it today when I go in for 25k service.
Other than that, I have been please with the performance, economy, and size.
I have just purchased a 2007 RAV4 LTD V6. Over the 100 miles or so that I have driven so far, I have noticed that I seem to feel every imperfection in the road surface. When I stop, I feel several small oscillations that damp out, but it feels as though I am sitting on a bowl of Jello. Am I being overly sensitive coming from driving a Ford Explorer and this just the nature of the RAV4? I dont recall feeling this way when I test drove another RAV4, but it wasn't a long drive.
Passenger side has been soaked from about second week of ownership, dealer says it's fault with air condition system and seeing as the air comes on to even defrost the window, it lets water in all the time???? Popping noise from front suspension since new, dealer says it's normal.
After this Toyota I've realized that all cars are the same. It doesn't matter who makes them, they are all put together the same way and all are going to have problems. Got the Toyota based on reputation and I'm very disappointed. Next time I'll buy domestic, at least it doesn't cost so much to replace things when they go wrong. $800 for a windshield, $250 for maintenance service. Car and Driver and Motor Trend are all garbage magazines saying there is no maintenance cost in first year ownership and how dependable Toyota and Honda etc.
Bulletin Title: COWL PANEL WATER LEAK
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Applicable Year(s): 2006-2007 (VIN Specific)
File Size: 479kb PDF
Download: http://RAV4World.com/tsb/2006/BO021-06.pdf
Description: Some RAV4 customers may complain of water on the passenger’s side floorboard after a heavy rainstorm or when going through a carwash. Water may be traveling underneath the outer cowl panel and entering the passenger compartment through the fresh air inlet of the heater box.
TSB REVISION NOTICE:
March 22, 2007: 2007 model year has been added to Applicable Vehicles.
The illustration in step 8A of the Repair Procedure has been clarified. Steps 5 – 9
and step 13 of the Repair Procedure have been updated.
PLEASE READ ENTIRE TSB.
February 13, 2007: A note has been added to the Introduction. The VIS’ in the
Production Change Information table have been updated. Step 8 has been added.
The illustration in step 9A has been clarified.
I had our local dealership check it out, and I while I wasn't exactly told there was nothing wrong, the service guy said there was no Toyota memos on issues with the steering and there was no recommended repair. The service guy also said he tried another 2006 on the lot and found a similar noise. I decided not to press the issue for now since it is pretty slight, but if it progresses I plan to take it back and be a little more assertive about a repair.
I am very curious about your experience with the dealer on this issue.
When I depress the button on that shifter, can hear and feel one click within the steering column. Does not make click when released. Have also tried engaging/disengaging the parking brake. (And of course, yes, I am doing this when car is running).
Don't have Haynes manual for our current Toyotas since they have needed nothing from me in terms of personal repairs since purchase 3 yrs ago.
Searched through postings here. GREAT site! :shades:
There is a work around to manually actuate the solenoid in the owners manual.
Wisconsin here and 5" snow yesterday on top of ice. 1/2 mile farm/gravelly uphill driveway, no plowing. RAV goes through no problem though. Sweet!
I have a manual for the 96 corolla and it says the three speed auto also has a differential that needs checking. Our rav has a four speed auto. Thanks
I've got the same problem.
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
I have the '06 Rav4 Sport.
Clearly, this is not an isolated problem.
http://townhall-talk.edmunds.com/WebX/.f0e0eb1/359!
Thanks!
Has anyone heard any more on this or had any luck with the dealership owning up to the fact that there is a stress problem with the windshield??
Looking for suggestions!
A more technical explanation is that the axis of the polarization of your glasses is rotated 90 degrees with the axis of the polarized screen that you want to see. The net result is that the light waves are cancel. A cool experiment to do is to look at the screen while you tilt your head to 90 degrees of your driving position. As you rotate it, you will see how the screen becomes clearer as the axis of polarization in both your glasses and the screen get aligned. This is common with polarized glasses and one of the reasons airplane pilots usually do not use polarizes lenses.
The best that they can figure is that something came in via the air intake, made it past the valves and got between the piston and head. It had to be metallic because it caused damage to the top of the #3 piston, to the side of the top of the piston, to the surface of the head and to the spark plug. The valves were not damaged nor were the cylinder walls.
They could find no broken parts or anything that would have caused the damage and because there are not signs of some part actually failing the warranty company (Wynn's) wouldn't cover the repairs.
Is is even possible that something came in via the intake of that nature to cause this kind of damage? The air filter was fine and there was no damage to it either.
Thanks in advance for your help/advice.
My vote would go toward a piece of one of the valve return springs.
I passed along that information to them along with the Service Manager in hopes of finding some broken part somewhere that would justify Wynn's having to pay their fair share for the repairs.
I attempted to remove the valve cover by...
Removing the spark plugs and wires,
removing the nuts on the spark plug tubes,
removing the 2 rubber hoses to the cover,
removing the throttle cable bracket attached to the intake manual,
removing 2 bolts at the top of the timing belt cover (also had to remove the battery and battery holder to access the bolts)
After these steps, the cover still couldn't be lifted off because the following two components acting together were in the way...
1. The bracket between the left end of the cylinder head and the intake manifold.
2 The wiring harness on top of the right end of the cover.
(The above left and right are based on the driver orientation).
I stopped at this point because it seemed I must be doing something wrong because I couldn't imagine the design could be so poor.
Questions:
1. Must all the wiring harness wires to the alternator, the diagnostic port, and the AC compressor be disconnected in order to move the harness far enough out of the way or can the harness be moved far enough without disconnecting wires?
2. Must the bracket between the cylinder head and intake manifold be removed? If so, do both the throttle body on the intake manual, and the ignition coils need to be removed in order to remove the cylinder_head to intake_manifold bracket?
I would think that there must be a trick to removing the valve cover without having to also remove all these other parts.
Answers to the questions and any other tips are appreciated. Thanks.
I seem to have the same issue on my new 2008 RAV4 I4. It sometimes idles a little rough when the AC is on.
Did you ever get that problem fixed? Or did you just learn to live with it? Thanks!