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On rainy days, when I am standing at a traffic light, and starting to get out of the green light, my car becomes unstable, as if it were going to skid. This happens whenever the street is wet. Report this problem from the first inspection of the car. At that time they changed an axis, but the problem persists
Took my 2017 Rav4 le to Toyota for shaking/vibrating at stoplight when fully warmed up. It does this every time I stop at a light or stop sign. They cannot find any faults or codes related to the issue and claim everything is normal. The vehicle feels like it will stall at every light. However they did tell me they were able to replicate the issue on another vehicle on the lot with similar mileage, but they tell me there is nothing they can do. Seems to be on all 2017 Rav4 le's not just mine.
Three days ago, I parked my 2017 Rav4 limited in my driveway, stopped the engine, got out, locked the door and went in to my house. Several hours later I went outside and found my Rav4 running. For how long I don't know. I thought I may have done something incorrect. Now being very careful about shut down procedure, yesterday I parked the Rav4 in the same driveway. Two hours later, I went ouside to check and again found the Rav4 running, with the lights on. I found several reports on-line about others having the same experience with their Rav4S. I called several Toyota dealers to report the incident and see if they had experienced this problem with other customers. None did. It appears that I can't be confident that my Rav4 will be wherever I parked it when I return to it.
Please see attached sheet for all that has happened since I purchased the car. I've had to replace the battery 2 times in 3 years as well. I have new battery and it became corroded fast. My car kept telling me there was an electrical issue and the check engine light would come on and all of the fails led to the transmission issues.
- Cedar Hill, TX, USA
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Back hatch is frozen and will not open. At first it opened a few inches, now it doesn't open at all. Just purchased this used vehicle in June! very expensive repair.
My husband had driven the car and had thought he had pushed the ignition button to "off". he then closed the garage door and left our home for a walk. When I came home a few hours later and opened garage door the car was running and filling our garage with carbon monoxide. This points to a serious safety issue with our hybrid Toyota, unless there is something amiss with our car, which I don't believe is the case. Specifically, the engine can be left on and the car makes no sound much of the time when it is parked. I can just imagine a parent like me leaving an infant sleeping and unattended in a closed garage while they go inside. If the car windows are left open how long would it take for a tragic ending to this scenario.
It was about 6:05 am. I was driving on 288 highway in pearland, Texas. There was light rain. I heard a very loud bang on the roof and sounded of glass substance running the the back of the roof. That noise freaked me out, but I could still keep driving to my work.
I called up to my dealership because my air conditioning has been acting up. It happens every day after I've driven my car for a little more than 30 minutes. The air slowly stops blowing out. When turning the air completely off sometimes it will blow out fully and other times it won't blow out at all. Upon speaking to the dealership they said they see this often and knew without a doubt it was my blower motor and wanted to charge me more than $300
I had own 2017 Toyota rav4le for less than 3 years and less then 25000 mile, we follow the instructions to have a schedule maintenance. We have never experience any problem at all, overall it was good driving car. However, on 5/4/2020, I parked my car at parking lot, turned off engine. I heard gentle click click two sound, do not realized it was from my car (other people was unload stuff). I open the driver side door get ready to off my car and go. I smelled rubber burning. I look around and see my engine had light smoke came out from engine, then became darker smoke, and follow by fire. I called 911, they send a fire department to put off the fire for me. My Toyota Rav4 le was all burned by unknown reason. I do not smoke, I paid off my car and I have no financial gain to have car burn. I just want to warning other owner, it could happened to you, I was lucky to be able to work out from my burning vehicle. My car was under warranty, but Toyota dealer stated that they would not able to honor such warranty, asked me call headquarter, I tried to email but after I upload pictures and it was suddenly intercepted in the cloud-disappear. I am report this incident to warning others.
I was stopped at a red light in a left hand turn lane. A vehicle making a left hand turn accidentally drove head first into my car. My passenger and I had seat belts on. The approximate speed of the other car was greater than 10 miles per hour. The air bags did not deploy despite considerable front end damage. A message on the dashboard says "SRS airbag system malfunction. Visit your dealer". I want to make sure that the airbags were not defective. I have read that if a vehicle is stationary and the seat belts are on it may not activate. That is ok - just want to make sure that is the intent.
The contact owned a 2017 Toyota Rav4. The contact stated that while her daughter was making a turn the steering wheel ceased as white smoke was seen coming from under the hood. The contact stated that the vehicle came to a stop as flames were seen coming from under the hood and from underneath the vehicle. The contact's daughter was able to exit the vehicle with no injuries. The fire department was called and extinguhised the fire. A fire department report was filed. The contact stated was awaiting inspection by the insurance company. The manufacturer the dealership was made of aware of the failure. The vehicle failure was not diagnosed by a dealer or independent mechanic. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure, however no assistance was offered. The approximate failure mileage was 57,000.
My windshield cracked took to dealer they said it was a pressure crack have been having issues with my wiper blades jumping/chirping! also having an issue with transmission slipping from time to time! breaks been replaced and still have a squeal and not wanting to stop sometimes have to push petal to floor
Transmission torque converter shudder and shift hesitation - shudders between gears, occurs between any two gears but mostly within the 20-55 mph range. Begun most noticeably at ~90K, vehicle now has 103K on it and shudder continues to worsen and become more frequent. Brought it back to dealer several times now and they have advised most likely torque converter needs to be replaced (approx $3-$4K repair). Same problem as the generation before where Toyota eventually extended warranty cover for: Https://www.toyoheadquarters.com/threads/2013-2015-Toyota-Rav4-transmission-shudder-warranty-extension-ZH1.1148/page-2
I had to visit Toyota because my radio will turn on by itself, when I park. Even after visiting Toyota for an update, my radio will change on its own, not from the steering wheel) but on its own.so it is not fixed. Wipers will turn on then stop. There seems to be a device behind the dash that I can hear clicking on and off well after the ignition is off or while the car is idle for a bit. My climate control changes on its on even though it works fine most of the time. It is as if my car is receiving additional commands from another source. Last week, at night, I witnessed two men standing in the middle of the street, somehow activating car alarms from random cars. Just yesterday, not far from where I live a driver "lost control" and ran into two homes. The driver was thrown from the car, while the car and the house caught on fire, that was strange to hear about. If there is something that can be done for my car, please let me know what to do. Thank you.
I was driving my Toyota Rav4 xle with 17089 miles on it down the highway and it was like a gun shot through my sunroof. Glass everywhere I didn't have any windows open just the sun shade was back to let sun in.
The contact owns a 2017 Toyota Rav4. While driving approximately 75 mph behind another vehicle, the contact switched lanes and the forward collision avoidance feature immediately activated. As a result, the brakes engaged and caused the vehicle to stop abruptly. The contact indicated that the detection system activated although the preceding vehicle was more than 150 feet away. The cause of the failure was not determined. The manufacturer and local dealer were not notified. The failure mileage was 38,000.
I have had this car in several times for brake noises and rotated warping. Currently the car has 35, xxx. Every 5-7K the rotars or pads are replaced. There is usually a noise that is associated with this and a duplicate video was found on youtube and turned out to be a master cylinder and was advised that it is not that but I have second thoughts. Brakes are a major part of the vehicle and there have been several times I thought about towing the vehicle to the dealer. But they claim that the noises are normal and are just the pads shifting, I have had my share far of cars and driven many different brands and never had this issue even with my prior Toyota's. second complaint is in regards to my locks. There are times the locks on the vehicle will not lock or constantly makes noise while trying to lock/unlock and the dealer claims they can not reproduce the noise but the second I step in the car it makes the noise.
I was in a crash, side impact, pretty bad. Injured. Airbags did not deploy. I hit my head and shoulder against the side on the interior of my vehicle. Traveling on freeway 50-60mph, heard screeching behind drivers side of me... heard crash then I was impacted on driverside and eventually rear passenger side causing my vehicle to be airborne and land upright. No airbags deployed!
The driver's side visor is lose (and getting worse). It is an obstruction and distraction to driving; I consider it to be dangerous. There seems to be no repair solution; the item needs to be recalled.
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- Miami, FL, USA