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well, after 2 weeks in the shop. i got my car back. they sure fixed the crap out of it. the total bill was $4760, more than half labor. thank god schneider picked up the tab and for the 2 weeks of rental and fuel. bunch of wire harnesses fixed, and to get to some things,they had to take some...

NTD, if you read my posts on the "screen of death" page, i had my ecu gateway replaced and so far so good. we lost power in the driveway luckily and your issue is the exact reason why we had it towed into dealer although it was driveable, just too dangerous. according to our dealer in sf bay...

We got the rav4 ev and love it despite it's shortcomings. I did have the gateway ecu replaced along with some other issues. Might as well get those things out of the way early on. But at the end of the day, we love it because it is all about efficiency. When our kids were smaller, a minivan but...

So i contacted Schneider and apparently there was a recall on this unit made from december to march 2013. A 3rd party making the nozzle screwedup. So they are reimbursing for cost of any repairs, car rental & gas, and sending someone out to replace the cable and nozzle. Very good customer...

so what would make the resistance increase?

For those who actually got the screen of death message and toyota actually did something to fix it, ie. some part replacement like gateway ecu or more (versus just a firmware upgrade), has anyone noticed when the charge is started, it's much louder hum? i swear it is much louder...before it was...

I read the manual on this but anyone actually use this feature? I don't need the car to be comfy cozy when i get in. But does it help the car charge more efficiently in some way? or is it strictly a creature comfort thing? it's summer here in san francisco bay area so nights are maybe mid 50's...

well i'm sure they'll say it's not the recommended leviton charger and i'm up the creek. seriously though, i have to drive the car so short term it's fine...just seeing if others have noticed it warm or HOT when charging. i know i have to fix it eventually.

Moderator Edit: Melted charge port with Blink link ok, so we've had the ev for about 3 months, charge it average every 2 days. one morning, it was hard to remove nozzle after usual overnight charge...kind of stuck. did my best to get it out as gentle as possible. turned out one of the plastic...

OK, so finally got the car back after 21 days exactly...car brought in on a friday, got it back today, friday. Service report said gateway ECU replaced and updated firmware again. NOt much more to say. Someone asked if Toyota 101 service is good. I think they did okay. Mostly they are tied by...

So my car has been in the shop for over 2 weeks now. THey finally told me last week that they are going to replace the gateway ECU...suprise, surprise. My service advisor said normally Toyota would have issued a recall but since Tesla is in on this project, Tesla does not. Who really...

To Avlegends, yes, i bought the car there. that is the exact reason why i took it back to them even though there is a closer toyota dealer to me. I figure they should own up to their own problem/vehicle. THey left a message with me yesterday trying to reproduce the problem. But what is the...

So we brought our car back last Friday to the dealer on a flatbed since my wife did not feel like dying while driving to the dealer should it loses power while driving along with power steering loss. Monday our service rep said Tesla had a few questions... 1. did we charge alot of electronics...

Miimura, yes we have documented and printed it out for them. I even mentioned the gateway ECU the first time. But of course they do the minimum before escalating, hoping it was a fluke and the error will not reappear. The car got taken to dealer on a flatbed today for safety reason, though it...

Dealer we purchased and took back to for service is Toyota 101 in Redwood City We have a closer dealer but since we purchased from them, I thought it best if they service it as well.

I should also add that I really want to love this car. I really do! I want to keep it if possible! But when something as fundamental as power steering can be compromised and the whole safety factor is now in question, my confidence and faith in the vehicle is now at a minimum. It's probably...

ok, so if you have not been following my saga, let me recap. 3 weeks ago would not start in driveway in morning. after about 5 tries, car started with the error message. message went away later that day in the afternoon. for about a week fine. then came back. always it would drive but the...

So we got the screen of death starting a few weeks ago, went away on it's own. Was good for about 1.5 weeks...then came up again. Always able to drive it so we did. Typical day for my wife is to drop off kids, run errands, go to target, go workout, so forth. =So lots of parking and...

So my wife tried starting the car this morning as usual. Said would not start. Looked down at the screen and saw the EV system error that said to take to dealer. She tried twice to start no luck. Then maybe 1 minute later and I tried and started the car, with the same message on the screen...

my bro-in-law has a ge wattstation for the rav4 ev. works fine. just be warned this unit is HUGE! look at the specs. i figure it has to be huge so you can wrap the wire around it. he says it's also very heavy, so not just a big shell. cheers