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    Steering wheel lights

    I thought I remembered that the other buttons lit up also - hard to recall after the car has been sitting at the dealer for 4 months waiting for a new motor. Are you certain?
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    Steering wheel lights

    Thanks! Just went to look at the owner's manual online - picture doesn't match what's inside my dashboard at all. No labels on anything in there either. I hate to run to the dealer just for a fuse. I could start just pulling them and putting them back, but I also don't want to lose stuff...
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    Steering wheel lights

    Does anyone know if the lights in the controls on the steering wheel are on a separate fuse, and if they are, which one and where the panel is? If they aren't (i.e. if your steering wheel doesn't light up then your dome light shouldn't work either or something like that) then I guess it has to...
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    ALL POSTS - motor whine or "HUM" (Milling Sound)

    I'm hoping to convince them to pre-order the parts, once we find out which parts. It's getting much louder, and range shorter, and now there's a deceleration vibration, but it's still driveable.
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    Owners: Would you recommend buying a used Rav4 EV?

    I love mine, but I wish I'd gotten one with less mileage even if it cost a bit more. I charge at home with a Juicenet Pro, full 40A, and I have solar and a TOU plan so I pay much less at night for electricity. One thing about doing your own maintenance - touch the wrong thing in an EV...
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    Tires

    These Yokos seem to be giving me a bit of a rough ride, but I can't tell if that's the tires or my developing DU problem. Fortunately, I bet against myself and got a service plan with the car, so now it's just an issue of convincing them that it needs replacing, and with a range of 66 with the...
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    ALL POSTS - motor whine or "HUM" (Milling Sound)

    About 59K, but it was on 50K when I got it. Brand new, the range on these cars was 91/114.
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    ALL POSTS - motor whine or "HUM" (Milling Sound)

    I really hope this car isn't turning into a money pit. Overnight, GOM reading on full normal charge changed from around 74 to around 66, and loud whine developed, seems to be relative to acceleration. Before anybody starts on GOM reliability, I watched it for a few days to see if it was...
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    Tires

    Thanks. From what I can tell, the Yokos aren't LRR either. The Michelins on the front are LRR, but the Dunlops on the back aren't - I'm thinking the dealer was forced to replace the tires because of California law (tires have to have 1/2 their tread left when car is sold), so he got the...
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    Roof rack?

    Yep, that's the after market rails I have. Crossbars are different, mine stick out past the rails and have locks. The RAV handled a 65 pound fishing kayak with a slight loss in range (used about 1.5 miles per mile traveled with the boat on it).
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    Tires

    So, right rear tire has slow leak, took it to tire place. Of course, can't be patched (never had a tire that could, I think they're lying about patching them). Anyway, discovered that front tires and back tires are not the same brand, and the ones on the back are not LRR. Many questions...
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    Portable solar trickle charger

    The adapter looks sturdy, but I have yet to see even one Tesla supercharger anywhere in town, and for $260 I need to know about at least one place I could use it. 6kw isn't full on, but it's a lot better than the 1.4kw you can get from a standard outlet (if it doesn't trip the breaker).
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    Portable solar trickle charger

    Thanks for info - did not know there were chargers at rest stops here, will have to look up which ones. Range and charging speed of the RAV without a JDemo make it impractical to drive SD->SF or SD->LV, but with a charge along the way SD->LA or SD->TJ might be doable. I notice the Yetis are...
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    Strange GOM behavior

    It never would have occurred to me to search at Home Depot for a car battery, even though I ordered my kayak from Lowe's. And I have no idea why that other battery doesn't come up for me on Amazon. Maybe having prime changes the search results? Anyway, thanks for those.
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    Portable solar trickle charger

    Well, I think your inflated estimate is just naysaying, but even at my estimate, it's far too high to be a marketable product, and flexible solar panels need reduction in weight and cost for it to be workable as well. And current battery/inverter technology would make either the weight or cost...
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    Portable solar trickle charger

    Precisely, useful for camping. Also useful if you are just a mile or two short of range and there's no charger anywhere (like if you ignore your GOM, like everyone here says to do). Or, if you just want to shade the car, and it would be nice to get a mile or two of range at the same time. Or...
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    Strange GOM behavior

    Maybe I'm misreading. I know that the 3 specific models you mention aren't available in my area, or on Amazon. Searching various sites for one, AGM+24F is not too difficult to find, and even NI+24F is possible. AGM+60AH yields only marine or motorcycle batteries, not size 24F. 24F+60AH...
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    Strange GOM behavior

    This, apparently, is rarer than a left handed catcher's mitt, disqualifying 95% of available AGM 24F batteries and 100% of LI 24F batteries, and ensuring that everything left is at the very pinnacle of outrageous pricing. Is this really necessary?
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    Strange GOM behavior

    Are you saying that it is normal to drive the car 6 miles with the A/C full blast, and the GOM reading does not change at all?
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    Portable solar trickle charger

    I have 350's on my roof, they're 6x9 cells so almost door sized, and weigh 55 pounds each. Of course, not flexible at all. I don't understand why we have to convert to AC, is the J1772 connector not DC? 720w would be a 2x4 array of 90 watt panels (or a 4x9 array of 20w, or 2x9 array of 40w...
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