Recent content by Sun2Drive

My 12V battery just died, too, and so did longrangview's battery - http://www.myrav4ev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1575. Is this the start of a trend?

My 12V battery also died last night: sometime between 9pm (parking the car) and 1am (when it would normally start charging and sent me an email notification). I've also driven daily for almost two years, too. My commute is 100 miles round trip, so I really don't think the battery should have...

Correct - you can't use the air compressor without the slime container. I tried to use it last night, but the hole was too big so the slime just ran out and I had to call AAA (didn't want to leave car overnight at a dealer from from home). Instead of buying a replacement bottle of slime and...

Just got my motor noise fixed at 34,000 miles. The noise got progressively worse over 1,000's of miles, and I finally took it in when the noise was irritating me too much. It got to the point so I felt embarrassed that I'd give EVs a bad rap because of the noise. Anyway, the dealer said it...

The "[R]" reverse indicator on the display blinks when I put the RAV4 in reverse. My wife says it didn't do that when we first got the car last August. When I asked the dealer to check it out, their solution was to compare it to another RAV4, which also blinked. Of course, that assumes the other...

On Dec. 19 the dealer estimated the parts would arrive in 2-4 weeks. I called today (almost 3 weeks later) and now they estimate Feb. 12 (just shy of 8 weeks from diagnosis). Has anyone been able to wring any concessions out of Toyota other than faster service? It sucks driving without a...

I sped up the process a bit by ordering vanity plates so I could submit my sticker request right away using my newly selected license plate number. That way I didn't have to wait for my plates first before ordering the stickers.

I have a dead heater, too. It was easy to tell by looking at the accessories power draw (<1kw). The dealer said the parts would be 2-4 weeks and they would be happy to give me a gas burning loaner car. I'd have to pay for gas and would not be able to use the HOV lane, so I said "No thank you."...

In my experience, the GOM is on the conservative side, so I get more miles out of a charge than the GOM says at the start of my trip. However, if you change your driving habits change abruptly (e.g., your spouse drives for the day with a lead foot and the heater cranked up more than you do...

I understand shutting off climate controls when the battery gets to "LO", but I don't understand disabling recirculate because it doesn't suck any juice to keep recirculate on. Imagine you're almost to your destination and your heater turns off, and then the car opens up the vents so you get...

My local service manager said he got a flash drive with the latest software patch(es) within the last week or so.

El Sobrante to Milpitas via the Caldecot tunnel and highway 13.

I do my 103 mile commute on normal charges though Bay Area traffic, with 5-20 miles to spare (depending on how heavy my foot is). I have three moderate hills and use almost no climate control.