Rav 4-3 And Flood Water

[To-yo-ta]

Many thanks for your reply anchorman, however I have just crawled under the front of my Rav and it does NOT have a full sump cover as shown in your pictures! There is a full length cover on the nearside, but this only covers a third of the width i.e. from the chassis side member across to the side of the exhaust. The offside two-thirds has no cover from the radiator back. Is this because my car is a petrol automatic (although I can't see why this would make a difference) or because Mr T has forgotten to fit one? p.s. I bought the car new 5 months ago.

Looks like I may have to pay my dealer a visit, but will await a reply. Thanks Andrew.

Just a quick thought...

Is the cover different for petrol and diesel models?

Yes it is!

So for anyone with a PETROL Rav 4.3 :- I have spoken to my local dealers spare parts man today and he looked up the sump covers for both petrol and diesel engined Rav's and he confirmed that the petrol only has a full length cover (i.e. from rear of bumber to bottom of the bulkhead) on the nearside of the vehicle and that the offside area under the sump and exhaust is left open with no cover. Whereas all diesel models have one full width full length cover. So my Rav is not missing a cover it's designed that way. The dealer thought it might be to improve air flow around the engine, perhaps because petrols run at higher revs and hence higher temperatures.

This of course might make a difference if going through deep flood water.

[Parts-King]

Maybe.

Any chance of a photo?

Kingo - can you confirm?

Cheers

Yes they are different, cant upload the drawing today for some reason

Kingo