Toyota RAV4 Change Vehicle

“Screen is too small, screen is difficult to impossible to see when sunlight is on it, this is particularly bad for the back up camera visibility”

“cannot see activity on screen at times due to sunlight glare”

“during certain times with the sun shining-one can not view the screen”

“Display screen all but worthless in daytime conditions - constant glare on the screen makes it impossible to see the screen or any information contained on it”

“The display screen is very reflective, to a dangerous degree. When driving with the sun behind the vehicle sunlight will reflect off of the display screen, blinding me as I drive”

“when connecting an ipod (120GB) to the usb input only a limited number of tracks will be played before the ipod and car unit lock up. This does not happen when a ipod touch is used”

“The radio will not work with a thumb drive containing MP3 music. This is strange, as it seems to be set up to do so, but it doesn't work. I brought this up with the Toyota service center, and they confirmed that the radio does not work with MP3 thumb drives. This is a disappointment, particularly as our 2012 Honda Accord's radio works perfectly with a thumb drive, and it's much easier to scroll through music using the radio than with a separate iPhone”

“Difficult programming directions”

“app frequently is slow to load the ability to enter an address into navigation system”

“The navigation system has a lot of features that could be USble but frequently are not. The USbility of the features is important as you don't want people 'messing' with the nav system while driving -- but frequently you need to resort to just that”

“navigation system gives drastically wrong directions”

“voice controls are completely useless. Toyota could do a software update to fix problems. Basically, it cannot understand any commands, and results are totally unrelated to request. Waste of money”

“GPS visibility is poor, as is the entire touchscreen. Adjustments to the GPS brightness did not work properly, causing the screen to go almost completely invisible. GPS data and updates also not very good/accurate. Navigation with voice control also essentially useless. Much of this is the touchscreen itself, touches do not cause action to perform”

“Difficult to use not reliable”

“phone occasionally looses connection to car. I can't answer incoming calls because the phone toggles back and forth between headset and car. Outgoing calls are fine”

“radio cuts out for a few seconds, several times a day. I took it in and they said that is normal because it is a hd radio. I find this hard to believe”

“"Premium" Entune system sounds like a clock radion. Radio won't hold equalizer settings and randomly resets to defaults. Also, Voice reco is very spotty”

“satellite radio signals are poor in hilly terrain, really bad reception when the leaves are on the trees. It is marketed as a paying option and they really should do something about the poor signal strength”

“Paid extra to have the radio with 11 speakers with subwoofer and this does not operate well for a premium system. Supposed to have over 500 watts JBL, but sounds most of the time like a regular radio”

“Often I will notice that the Cruise Control is tuned on, when It was not turned on. The button to turn on or off is located at the end of the control arm, and can easily be turned off or on accidently especially when wearing winter gloves. I feel the control arm should be shorter. It has not caused a problem for me but there is a potential for an unintended slow down”

“Does not understand commands”

“system does not understand commands when spoken at normal volume levels and speed”

“The command system is neither user friendly nor intuitive. The system is list driven with a completely illogical list of choices. The system frequently fails to execute on commands and has several dead ends that require a complete restart”

“voice commands work only with the car not moving. any other time you receive mumbo jumbo. dealer says it works fine”

“Voice recognition has been awfully on this vehicle from day one. It recently stopped working. Was told that the software w as out of date by two years. In other words from the day I got the car. Has been working Mitch better since but still not great”

“This function is essentially useless whether using for navigation, audio, or anything. If you use it, CANCEL will be the most used function”

“Sometimes it does not work at all sometimes it does”

“Sometimes the GPS screen will stay on the same map for miles and miles”

“Stops functioning and have to stop and restart the car”

“screen wuld go blank and radio would shut off. Within 60-90 seconds, it would return to normal. Happened approx 3x/week without any patterns as to car location or time of day, just randomly”

“front brake pads cause banging sound when applying the brakes, going forward and reverse”

“Plastic parts on dashboard squeaking”

“The car suspension began squeaking around 5,000 miles. We have taken it to dealer who said there is nothing they can do and squeaks are normal. The transmission makes clunky noises and wind noise is high. I know RAV is not luxury car BUT $32,000 is still a lot of money and should mean something. I no longer expect this from any car maker in 2015 to now”

“In dash rattle. Corrected under warranty by dealership”

“Four trips to dealer to correct significant rattling in sun roof. One time the entire unit wa replace. Also, molding fell off”

“Constant noise from interior materials rubbing together. Taken to the dealership who "could not find any noises" - dealership "test drove" the vehicle less than 1 mile according to odometer readings”

“Sometimes/intermittently hear a metal rubbing sound when I push the brakes. Took it to the dealer and they said the brakes were fine and they were not able to reproduce the described sound. They thought it might be dust”

“Rattle in dash”

“louder than expected”

“Extreme wind noise at hay-way speeds. Have to turn the radio to almost (75%) volume to listen to Cd's or audio books. Will not lease another RAV4”

“mechanism around sunroof was rattling; dealer fixed”

“The driver side weather stripping was defective(had a 3 inch cut along the seam”

“The car was turned over to Toyota engineers after a year long process for them to come up with a fix. It also had to be towed in twice due to braking problems”

“Rock from chip sealing got stuck op in the drum. Toyota cleaned it out for me”

“There is a grinding sound coming from the front passenger side break, but this is intermittent”

“After driving in winter condition brakes give a loud, high pitched squeal”

“Grinding on backing up on early morning starts”

“it's very noisy. My mechanic says it's in good shape , just noise”

“Front break pads wore more quickly than expected and required replacement”