Guys, would be nice to see some photo's of your RAV4's,...

This is my first one ,a 1994, RAV4 J type , 2.0 Auto Japanese home market model.

Here's my Oct 2006 T180 in slate blue...

Here's my baby.
Sept 2006 - Tyrol Silver.

What the hell, here's mine (again).

Should of added my lastest RAV4 some time back ....



...also available in very short wheel base ....

Keeping in with the good photo's of every one's RAV...

Here's my 2002 RAV in Blue (forgotten colour name)





Enjoy.....

This is mine and very much loved...


1996 and 101,000 miles in 11 years...

Dug out a picture of my "old" Rav to show you too!!
A 55 plate XT-R D4D on the Isle of Wight Ferry last summer, parked next to her bigger Amazon brother!
Traded her in for my T180 in Jan this year.

My nrg is that colour, think it's classed as balearic blue.

Don't suppose anyone knows what the silver colour is called do they?

The colour name on the 4.3 is Tyrol silver.
Clare

Is it just my graphics card settings or has everyone except 4raver been tinkering with their photos?

The colour saturation of some of the photos above seem to be a little extreme. As I said before, it could be just me but this is the only page that shows such 'vivid' and unnatural colour

Steve

Nop mine all taken with my 6.5mp Fuji camera... no photoshoping at all.... all honest and above bored....

He's one I took on a lovely sunny day

Mine have had a bit of 'shopping, but nothing major. I think the fact that there is another blue car (the wife's, as sen in the first shot) parked next to it on a couple of the shots makes the colour look unsual.

Mine was just the result of hours of washing and polishing!!!!!

Actually Paul, yours looks good to me but the first pic by Bob was scanned, which would explain the orange stubbled field, and, as little a tweak as it may have been, sywy's photo looked definitely too vibrant for Slate Blue.

Now come on, stop muckin' about with these colours

Carbon Quartz with Protection & Style Pack







Steve

I can assure you that the colour in the pics are pretty accurate for a clean, polished slate blue in the sun
Just like the carbon quartz the colour can look different, in different light.
I think that those shots were taken the day I got it, brand new straight fromt he dealer.

sywy,

I'm not disputing what you have said in any way whatsoever I'm just trying to understand why, on my pc, your pictures look 'overcooked'. One reason, which I'm yet to understand, may be something to do with the 'colour profile' used on your photos. For the first time ever, I get a message that says 'Colour Profile Mismatch', and that 'Embedded' is 'Adobe RGB (1988)' but that 'Working' is 'sRGB Colour Space Profile' when I open your photos.

Yes, I know it sounds weird but this happens when I simply open your photos. It sounds as though my PC cannot match the colour profile used on your software and the result is 'colour saturated'.

FWIW, I'm using Corel PhotoShop XI.

Anyway, this is getting a bit pc techy but I thought I'd just explain my curiosity/amazement to the colours that showed up which are, to say the least, bright!


Steve

Chatman,

Love the photo of of your cars in the snow, how did you do the Toyota on your spare wheel cover ? Looks good.

Dave.

I brought it with the TOYOTA on the back.....Only seen one other with this on the tyre cover......

The only touching up my car has had is with a tin of paint and a fine brush.. Natural light and a bucket of clean soapy water....Just flown through the M.O.T with flying colours for the third year ...I am so happy ....

I travel a fair bit over to Italy, and the majority of Rav's there have the same "TOYOTA" marking on their spare wheel cover, perhaps it's yet another OE bit of kit that's only available or easier to source on the continent????

Cool my car is unique then................

It is .............unless it's a special, one-off Italian import in right-hand drive, in Balearic Blue

(minus the parking dents/scrapes that EVERY Italian car has got!!!!!)

Nop UK registered and no dents scratches or kerbed wheels....then again I don't let the wife drive it

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This is my baby. Please, no derogatory comments about the colour! She was bought second-hand three years ago with 9,000 miles on the clock - now nearly 22K.

Nice car Sal, and really low mileage too.

Cheers,

Dave.

Thanks for the reply. I was very lucky and after much searching, found this car on ebay and because it was poorly advertised, it was a bargain. My previous car was a G reg Corolla GTI which had to go because of bad rust problems. But I am thrilled with this replacement.

By the way, how do you display the photo without having to click the photobucket link?

Hi Sal,

I did the same as you to start with ie put the URL link in the text box, Sussex Paul told me how to do it properly. If you look at some recent threads with photos I think Anchorman also gave an explanation. But here goes, basically instead of adding the URL link here, with your text, look at the icon menus above. Sods law of course I see today the whole things been updated by the looks of things. You will see a small Icon that looks like a scenic picture (put your mouse over it and it says insert image) when clicked it will promt you to paste your URL link here. Give it a go its easy once youv'e done it a couple of times.

Cheers,

Dave.

Nice car there Sal
Those 4:1's still look cool I think.
I guess you didn't manage to get those alloys off ebay in the end?? But having said that, Imho I think the current wheels suit the car to a tee anyway.

Forgot to say Sal, dont know what you are worrying about with the colour ? Dont know what its like where you live but up here in this part of central Scotland I dont think I have ever seen any model of Rav in red. I think it looks great in red, I believe on my own model, the mk2 it was available in red over silver. Give it a nice polish/wax now and then and it will keep looking the biz.

Cheers,

Dave.

Hello to all!
I´d like to show you some Pictures of my RAV4.2 D4D wit the 235/70-16 Tires mounted.
Hope, you like it!







235/70-16 Matador MP71 Izzarda A/T give 2cm more height and better offroad grip:


Comparison of Dueler 687 in 235/60 and Matador A/T´s in 235/70:


Have a nice Day!
Ingolf

Very nice, are the new tyres very noisy on the road ?

Nice unusual shot Bob, whats the location ? or have you got a replica Spitfire in your garden ?

Cheers, Dave.

Hi Ingolf, welcome to the club, nice Rav also good to see one with the steering wheel on the wrong side Keep the photos coming and any hints or mods you have made. The bigger tyres make your Rav look really butch.

Cheers,

Dave.

Trere is a very very light difference in the noise from the tires. I only head it on the first 10km when I had them new. Meanwhile I don´t hear them at all and their handling on dry and wet road is as good as with "normal" summer tires.

On dirt roads and in the forest´s they are far ahead!

I use them since january, really like them and will use them all year.

Here are some additional Informations about the tires:

Matador MP71 A/T´s

Another Mod I did with my RAV is the complete speaker replacement for better sound with the stock headunit.
Its an easy, quick an effective way to get better sound. We call it "brutal replacement", but it has good results!

I described the mod in the US RAV Forum:
speaker mod

Here are my modification instructions as pdf- file:
speaker replacement 4.2 pdf

It´s in german but I think the pictures have their own language.

Its in a town called Biggin Hill, use to be a WWII RAF site, they have a Spitfire and Hurricane on display out the front,they use to be the real thing ,theses days they are fibreglass replicas, in fact the biggest plastic kits i've ever seen

I have one of the last RAV4.2. It is from 12-2005. No leather but for the rest almost full option.



Click here for more pics of my RAV4

Dutchrav

Very Nice

Like the twin pipes....

Like the painted mud flaps as well, very nice car.

Cheers,

Dave.

Success (posting an image)! Thanks for your positive feedback Dave and Paul!

Freestyle....

Love the colour....

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Sal,

Your welcome.

Cheers,

Dave.

Freestyle, nice clean car

Chatman, is this not the same colour as your Rav .

Cheers,

Dave.

Yep and this is my RAV.... just changed my signature setup.....As I seem to be the only one who has TOYOTA proudly festooned across my rear....thought I'll show if off.

Been trying for that last 2 weeks to get my RAV4 pics on, with no luck. How do you do it here? Out of all the forums i visit this is the only one i cant upload them on. Lost me now. Any way i have a 2002 D4D Linea Sol, metalic Grey and is the best car i've owned.

You need to use a application to host your photo's Most on here use www.photobucket.com.

Upload your photo's here, this will then give you the url link needed to place them onto this site

create a reply to this post and on the top is some small icons (looks like a blue poast card)

one is used for uploading photo's, select this and past in the url you got from photobucket...

and hey presto a nice image for you.

Hope this helps

Just one for Wednesday......

Here is my RAV with new chrome rear light guards.



Here is my RAV on holiday in Cornwall before the rear light guards.



and here in February before new chrome grille.



And looking rather fat and mean on a cold rainy day with new chrome grille!



and on a sunnier day!



Sorry that was a lot of pics! I am like a proud parent flicking through the family photo album!!!!

More detailed shot, Lexus LS400 clear side repeaters i've fitted to my Rav4.



...and polished cam cover and manifold cover,



Last photo for now...