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Feels kinda floaty and tippy while driving, and then the whippiness forward, while stopping. Of course, it's impossible for us to tell from here - perhaps you have a friend that drives a tall vehicle that you could take for a drive. They could tell better that we could here.
The second is a rattle in the front passenger door or window. This starts once the car reaches about 40 mph. I took it back to the Toyota dealership where I purchased the vehicle. (I saw the color/style I wanted while out of town, so bought it there.) They could not find the problem, although acknowledged it existed. I thought I would give it a couple more months, while still under warranty, to see if others had this rattle and a solution had surfaced. This time, I will take the car back to my local dealership.
What a disappointing problem on an otherwise great vehicle. Unfortunately most of my mileage is highway, so I hear this the majority of my driving time. Turn up the stereo?
http://rav4world.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7423&highlight=rattle+passenger+mirr- - or
or go to rav4world and do a search on "rattle passenger mirror" and someone posted a "fix" for it. Go to Jeff Warkentin's album to see the picture of the piece he removed. Sounds like it has worked for several people with the same issue.
Is this a trend? A recall issue? Anyone else have this problem? How did you solve it?
Hope it doesn't cost a fortune...
Thanks!
AMM
Here's what I can guess: you disengaged the clutch and took your foot off the gas, but the rpm's went up to (you say 7,000), you shifted, released the clutch, then did this again next time you disengaged the clutch.
Either the floor mat is catching the accelerator, or the
the throttle body is very dirty, or ???
No, not a trend at all, and this is the first I have ever heard. By the way, this is a COROLLA forum.
Not anymore! :P
ANYway, it appears to have been a dirty throttle - $55 for the repair, and somewhere online there's a link for a do-it-yourself version that. The floor mat was not stuck on the accelerator...ahem! And the partially depressed (in more ways than one) gas pedal offered some resistance so I knew something was wrong. It remained in place and the rpms increased. Lucky the engine didn't blow.
Thanks for your input folks, supportive and otherwise!
I have a 2006 Rav-4 that has problems worse than that! Right when I drove the car off the lot the check engine, VSC, and 4wd lights came on. I took it back to the dealership thinking maybe it was just as simple as resetting a code, and they told me the fuel sensor was bad. Got that replaced, but then several weeks later, all the lights came on again, and stay on for several days. I took the car back to Toyota, and then they told me it was the gas cap not tight enough. Lights were out, but then then all came back on a little while later. Took the car back again (3rd time!), and they told the fuel sensor had failed! Got that replaced, but now I am sellng the car. Consumer Reports may like the RAV-4, but I believe there are some real problems with this car. When I saw your post, it remined me of the problems I having.
Jimmy Drew
If it happens at slow speed, find some rough brick like surface or speed bumps, roll your windows down and have someone outside the car as you roll by to determine approx location/corner of car it comes from.
Wiggle all parts, including the exhaust pipe(s), heat guards, anything that moves, to see if it makes any noise.
Greg
Rev4 2006 4WD, V6, Limited, 9500 miles
I will try all the things you mentioned to see if we can't pin this thing down. It's just frustrating because at times it's really loud and of course it's never loud when it's been at the shop to be looked at...
Many thanks for your input.
Julie
Just focus on nailing down if it is a specific wheel/corner of car and look for clearance issues between parts, brackets on tailpipe etc. If the Toyota guys looked at it on a rack, then the suspension is not loaded up and the space between parts is not the same. We ran over a nasty pothole once, probably 6+ inches deep, and the sound we heard was like something hit the underside of the vehicle, *hard*. I thought something broke, but apparently not. It probably was the suspension travel hitting the maximum point and ramming the rubber or metal stop point. Yours happens on small bumps so it is not that. Try finding a place with a rough surface where you can drive left and right tires over it independently to help narrow things down. Or your favorite pothole and run each wheel through it...try 10mph vs 30.
The title of the TSB is "Whine Noise from Fuel Pump" and applies to 2006 and 2007 RAV4s (applicable VIN ranges are listed in the TSB).
The work involves removing and replacing the fuel pump resistor with an updated part.
Thanks,
Greg
Jimmy Drew
Jimmy Drew
We paid 31K for Rav4 Limited V6 and for a price like this the larger things above should not happen if quality control is doing its job in the design and production phases. I know from being in high tech development, and going through similar processes, Toyota *knew* about these items when they shipped the product. Their management, like any company's, statistically analyze the field risk of occurrence of defects and make the ship/no ship decision for the product on said data. Toyota's problem as covered in the media is management was cutting corners on defects, not reporting them up the food chain, and Toyota was getting burned by increasing customer reports of product defects. Toyota hopefully is correcting these issues and we are using the warranty period to make sure they fix *everything* we see as a defect in our vehicle. Bottom line is we like the vehicle and for my fiancee it works well. It no doubt will be a good long term vehicle for her.
For me as a performance driver, its design issues currently do not work well for my style of driving. I am used to vehicles that are rock solid when you mash the gas, enter a corner, etc. I have fun driving it but I will not drive it in the same manner as my 1999 Merc ML430 for instance, which is uncanny in its ability to stick to the road and corner as an SUV.
As far as defects go, the only one I can lay claim to is the fuel pump whine - and that seems to have gone away by itself a few months ago. Nothing else about the vehicle has given me any reason to doubt its assembly or component quality. It's too bad not everyone has had the same positive experience!
Jimmy Drew
And even with the manual control the A/C will run, with the indicator OFF, in any of the defrost/defog/demist modes unless the OAT is below ~35F.
In cold weather my system spends a lot of time in the partial defrost/defog/demist mode. That's the only reasonable chance of preventing windshield fogging during cold weather in ANY Toyota or Lexus vehicle.
But my dealer sat the two c-best options wherein I can completely disable A/C during the winter months.
Questions:
Is there anybody who ever used a walkie-talkie in a 2006 RAV-4? Does it interfere with the electronic ignition/alarm?
I intend to buy a walkie-talkie capable of transmitting up to 13-15 miles - do I need a license? (I never had one before).
Any advice is highly appreciated! =Andrew17
What does the first part, "sat the two c-best options" mean?
My dealer set the two c-best options.