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See me.....? See if ah had just bought a new 4.4 Toyota, and before the paint is properly hardened nor a stonechip appears on the front, a far king "facelift" model was launched, ah would be well pi55ed off......or is it jissme.......? In honesty, have not read ALL of kencat's linky yet.....will do later........but have already found a use in the kitchen for a 124bhp engine.....we will use it to remove skin off rice puddings, if it is up to the task.

I'd be more enthused with a 4.4.5 if they would just stick a 2.5 lt V6 turbo 200 BHP petrol engine under the bonnet.

1) Start with Car Alarmed and your outside the car: 2) Push the “unlock” button of the remote control the Indicator lights will flash 2 times. 3) Step in the vehicle and make sure that all doors are closed completely. 4) Insert the key into the ignition key cylinder. Wait for more than 5 seconds. 5) After turning the key to the ACC position, turn the key from the ACC to the ON position 5 times within 10 seconds (Last position : ON) and the Status Monitor LED will illuminate for 30 seconds. 6) While the LED is illuminated : Open and close the driver’s door 5 times. And then turn the key to the ACC position. LED will continue illuminating and the Indicator lights will flash 5 times. 7) To put the Ignition controlled door lock ON : While the LED is illuminated: Open and close the driver’s door 1 time. Turn the key ACC-ON-ACC 1 time (Last position : ACC). the Indicator lights will flash 1 time and the LED will extinguish. END When the procedure is done come out of the car and arm the alarm wait about a minute so the car is alarmed then un-arm it, get in the car close the drivers door and turn the ignition the car should lock and then unlock when you turn off again. If you want to switch off the function then repeat steps 1- 6, but then do the following: To put the Ignition controlled door lock OFF: While the LED is illuminated: Open and close the driver’s door 2 times. Turn the key ACC-ON-ACC 1 time (Last position: ACC) the Indicator lights will flash 2 times and the LED will extinguish. Notes: The door lock will be overruled by operating the “central lock button” or manual door knob operation. If the Ignition is turned ON a second time the “ignition controlled door lock” will NOT operate again.

Hello Maikel - welcome to Toyota Owners Club

Good result, it took me nearly a week of argument for them to agree the battery was faulty, then a further three weeks to source a battery. If the dealer is any good he will have a new battery in stock, or he will borrow one from a new stock car and have you on your way.

I started this thread so it's only fair that I should post that I have now answered my own question. On Monday, the 4 Continental ContiCrossContact Winter tyres I have ordered are being fitted. Yes, I don't do large mileages these days and I could slow down but to me it is more about confidence when inevitably I will at some time find myself on a slushy motorway. I live near the M90 and do use it quite a lot. I would never forgive myself if I found myself in a bad situation because I had not emptied the piggy bank to buy winter tyres. Let's face it, if you can afford to buy a new RAV then your ought to be able to afford winter tyres. Spread the cost over the lifetime of a set of summer and winter then the only real cost becomes that of swapping them over each season. Incidentally I got a good price from a small, local independent garage. Whilst there are lots of options on winter tyres, when you actually want to buy a specific size and get them delivered the choices seem to evaporate quite quickly.

I'm sure this problem is caused by the battery being too small. If you look at the Lexus Owners site you will find the same problem discussed by RX owners, and it seems Toyota solved it with by fitting a larger battery when the model was updated. http://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic/43199-battery-failure/ I think if your unlucky and the battery fitted in the factory is not 100% it will go flat even if your very careful, it seems something of a black art to test a battery, so when you take it to the dealer he will report it as testing okay in good faith. The only real solution is to fit a bigger capacity battery, that way even if the battery fitted on your car at manufacture is not 100% it will still be good enough to do the job, but of course a bigger battery will not fit in the existing place and to accommodate it would mean a redesign of the boot, perhaps in a few years when they give this car a facelift! Kevin

Sounds pretty rubbish, did you use eco mode? .... i still have not dared use it ...slowly moving back to my old way of driving weekend by weekend. I found complaining directly to Toyota Customer Relations (email from website) is a handy way to get things moving, chances are if the problem continues they will get involved any way. A recall looks quite likely at this rate...

Corr blimey my sentiments exactly Kev........ Im away to test drive a new 4.4 this weekend as Im doing something I said I would not do............ Im selling my beloved Jag XF and considering getting a new invincible..... Slightly off topic I hardly use the Jag now since returning to the grind stone and after a couple of let downs trying to buy a 4.3.5 SR my thoughts have got me wandering towards a brand new invincible specification car with all the options which I would then keep for at least 5 years..... Now back on topic I'm thinking WTF is going on ? OK the prospect of a low powered 2.0 powered car does not fill me with joy but if a really economical version of the 4.4 was to spring forth then values of what would soon be regarded as an "Old" version will ruin residual values... But then when the car is heralded as "The all new Rav4" they are ball****ting to say the least as its the same engine we have all known for some time... Perhaps with the advent of this upcoming car "The all new Rav4" claims will have some credence ? Confused from confused shire........................

When you pull the vent off, did use a screw driver to lever the bottom 2 plastic tangs. So long as you did that then they will not be broken. Look closely at photos 2, 3, and 4, you will see the tangs. Now getting the blower motor. I notice you had a picture showing the Haynes manual. It describes how to remove the blower motor in page 3.9. Once the lower facia panel and glovebox are removed, the motor can be be seen, held by three screw and a wire plugged. Unplug the wire and remove the 3 screws. The motor can be lowered. This is much easier than most other cars. I have not done this but the Haynes manual is helpful in this case.

You can check your stat by feeling the temperature in the hoses.. Once the car is up to temp all the hoses should be around the same temperature IE fairly hot... It is possible the new stat is faulty but fairly unlikely.. Could it be the heater matrix getting a bit blocked so not flowing water as good as it used to ?

http://youtu.be/tB8D2QZ9lA4 Joggers and walkers in Louisville, Kentucky, were left running scared after a prankster spooked them with a remote-controlled skeleton. With Halloween just around the corner, American joker Tom Mabe used his squawking Flying Reaper to swoop down and stalk his victims. ‘We have had a lot of fun making this. It’s taken some work to make it happen, but it’s great fun,’ he explained. ‘It flies with the help of a remote control helicopter but you rig it up in a really brilliant way. It has to be quiet so people don’t hear it.’ He added: ‘Wherever there are people, we will go. We have since managed to make its eyes glow red and we are going to go out at night and scare people. ‘The best bit is when you sneak up on people. We fly it about 200ft in the air and then drop it down so it’s right behind them.’ The clip has racked up more than 150,000 hits in less than 24 hours.

Here is the Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcA0UarIAOs

a good read if anybody is interested in in buying a Prius http://www.thecarconnection.com/overview/toyota_prius_2013

Yes it pi88es one off when a facelift comes in quickly. Perhaps this new sewing machine engine is one of the BMW plants. Looks like Mr.T is looking for more efficiency at the cost of acceleration. On a side note over the first 3.5 k on my new RAV we averaged 39.9 mpg. I'm just coming to the end of a full tank of Shell V-Power Nitro and with the same driving and roads it's looking like 42.3 mpg. Not driving slow as well and using sport button most of time.

Oh, they are illuminated. It's just that Toyota's idea of illumination requires you to be in a darkness only found in interplanetary space on a dark night with a blindfold on, and then you will see they produce exactly three photons an hour. They are very very very dim.

Be careful with 15" wheels on the Auris Excel with 17" wheels, it has larger front brake discs than the Auris with 15" wheels as standard. Toyota sell a 15" and 16" steel rim that supposedly fits our cars, it is part of their winter options catalogue. If I remember correctly they are about £70 each for just the rim. I bought a cheap set of 15" alloys, but unfortunately they had an inner lip that reduced the internal diameter to 13" and they foiled the front caliper due to the disc size.

Avoiding the dreaded smell from air conditioning systems is a bit of a balancing act. In many cases the smell is caused by bacteria. I was talking with a pathologist about this phenomenon and referring to antibacterial treatments of air conditioner coils being relatively ineffective compared to cleaning the evaporator coil and flushing out any contamination. He informed me that the smell from most air conditioning system did originate mostly from bacteria but rather more decomposing bacteria rather than the live ones. This explained the reason for disinfection being short lived.The best way to avoid the smell from the system is to attempt to remove any bacteria enhancing conditions. Try to keep the condensate drains as clear as possible so that any moisture can easily drain away. Additionally, keep the cabin filter changed regularly take out the mats regularly and beat the much and fluff out of them whilst vacuuming the remaining carpets to avoid the evaporators becoming dirty and avoid running the system on recirculation rather than fresh air since recirculating the same air will always be circulating the same bacteria and encourage colonisation. Something I have always tried to do with ac systems is to run them for quite long periods at extremes of temperatures which don't agree with the constitutions of your average bacterium: giving them an ultra cold blast in the winter and a blisteringly hot blast in the summer. This doesn't make driving very comfortable but it does seem to do the trick by wiping out the nasties with extremes of temperature rather than cosseting them. I just don't suffer from smelly ac systems but I can not say categorically exactly what it is I do which keeps that smell of horse pee away.

REAR wheel spinning - obviously a car that has been assembled back to front...

Harry, it was more of a generalisation rather than referring to specific Toyota faults. From this and other forums I visit there is a very mixed bag of reactions to the electronic parking brake, personally I don't like it and many others have the same view. It wouldn't be quite so bad if it had an auto release but Toyota seem to have not deemed this acceptable on the CVT models. There have also been many references to the reliability of the actuators and the cost of replacement over all manufacturers, this would seem to be between £1000 to £1500 on all makes. This is very expensive when compared to a conventional handbrake mechanism. It is the only thing I don't like about the Avensis I have and when the time comes to change it may put me off buying another one if it is equipped with the electronic version.

It won't harm to clean the throttle body/MAF. You never know it might be the first signs of the starter problem developing into something you can find. Fingers crossed.

Thanks for that Red - model number is AT 190. It looks so original (i.e. grime levels!) that I'm starting to think it's just the rocker cover. Sotal - looking at your engine picture my engine has a "16 VALVE" sticker on the blank area on the rocker cover top (sort of wooo! go faster stripe effect). Lean burn engines basically weaken the petrol/air mixture when the accelerator pedal is not pushed down hard to save fuel, thus by driving with the revs high-ish and the foot off the gas really good economy can be achieved. I've looked this up and apparently this system is not compatible with standard catalytic converters, plus you need those platinum-tipped spark plugs to ignite the weaker mixture (and have a more expensive O2 sensor with a heater on it by the looks of other threads). Shame I can't find the actual engine number. I think it's even forgiven me for overheating it over Christmas too :D :D