In-car Electronics
CD or DVD players, radio, speakers, GPS, communication system (e.g., OnStar), display screen freezes or goes blank, phone pairing (e.g. Bluetooth), voice control commands, steering wheel controls, portable music device interface (e.g., iPod/MP3 player), backup or other camera/sensors.
What Owners Say
"for some undiagnosed reason the blind spot sensors turn off on their own"
Stephen R., IL (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Sometimes it does not work at all sometimes it does"
Anonymous, CA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"lettering too light on clock. Radio/CD change displays without warning"
Rita A., SD (2015 Toyota RAV4 LE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
Stanley W., NH (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"cannot see activity on screen at times due to sunlight glare"
Dave B., CA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"during certain times with the sun shining-one can not view the screen"
Allan E., CA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
John C., PA (2015 Toyota RAV4 LE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
Andy S., NY (2015 Toyota RAV4 XLE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Touchscreen on the infotainment system become uncalibrated and the dealership only offered a full infotainment replacement for a repair. I believe this is a manufacturing error that should be fixed for free"
Anonymous, (2015 Toyota RAV4 LE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"It started about 6 months ago. The entire display screen of the stereo shows a solid color background with a loading bar on top. The bar indicates that the system is essentially booting up, but then the screen goes black, the system resets, and the solid screen with loading bar comes back again. The stereo has been useless, and online reviews say that this has been an ongoing issue that Toyota dealerships refuse to fix, instead pushing customers to buy a new stereo unit."
Anonymous, TX (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Multimedia system got stuck in endless reboot cycle and failed to function."
Anonymous, IL (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"It freezes about once or twice a month. Sometimes comes back on it's own, sometimes after turning car off."
Anonymous, TX (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Sometimes the GPS screen will stay on the same map for miles and miles"
Anonymous, CA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Stops functioning and have to stop and restart the car"
John L., ME (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"As stated with the other issue - the screen is frozen, it acts like it's loading the infotainment system, then resets to black screen then loading screen, then resets again... over and over..."
Anonymous, TX (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"The screen went blank. Took car into dealer who replaces the whole radio system which was under warranty."
Anonymous, TX (2015 Toyota RAV4)"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"
Anonymous, CA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"USB interfaces works only about 50% of the time at random intervals. Problem is independent of type of drive and is not a seating problem. Dealer still unable to find problem over two years now."
Anonymous, VA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Interface fails to recognize tracks on most USB memory sticks."
Anonymous, IN (2015 Toyota RAV4 XLE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
Anonymous, NJ (2015 Toyota RAV4 XLE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
Andy S., NY (2015 Toyota RAV4 XLE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"The whole audio screen and navigation system had to be replaced, thank goodness I bought a warranty, it would have cost $3000!"
Anonymous, MA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"system is useless. cannot recognize any voice commands and gives nonsense results. Toyota could do a free software update"
Anonymous, ON (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"navigation system so bad that do not use. could be an easy software update if Toyota wanted satisfied customers"
Anonymous, (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Does not no where it is at"
Anonymous, SC (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Outdated system that is inaccurate and dangerous"
Harvey G., AB (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Difficult programming directions"
Richard C., FL (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"app frequently is slow to load the ability to enter an address into navigation system"
Anonymous, WA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
Brody B., AR (2015 Toyota RAV4 XLE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"navigation system gives drastically wrong directions"
Dave B., CA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
Anonymous, ON (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
Anonymous, VA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Does not always pair up with the blue tooth"
Anonymous, OH (2015 Toyota RAV4 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"I live in an area with some coverage issues. The phone will be connected via bluetooth, but then decide it's not connected to the vehicle, and go to handset - but not speaker. So, then it'll go back to being connected to the vehicle, all the while I'm missing the conversation that's going on."
Anonymous, MS (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"At times the phone will not interphase"
Anonymous, MD (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"We have 2 cell phones, and both are paired. The car always connects to the cell phone of the passenger, not the driver's, even though the passenger infrequently comes along. In order to pair the driver's cell and thus make a call while driving, the passenger cell phone needs to be turned off and the car needs to be restarted while the passenger cell phone is off for it to pair with the driver's phone. Sometimes, the pairing gets lost completely and again, the car needs to be turned off to pair with the phone again. Also, text messages are received by the car for some reason, and if one presses the dashboard button to show the text messages, it can take several minutes for an error to be displayed. Meanwhile, the dashboard screen does not display other information. Bizarre. Not working as it should. At all. Dangerous actually, if one wants to take an important call and at that moment, the pairing has just decided to go do sleep. If it was not such a hassle, we would have gotten a different car within days of having bought it, as this is a pretty important feature that should not have gotten messed up in a 2015 model."
Anonymous, NY (2015 Toyota RAV4 Unsure 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"The phone will disconnect a call when the steering wheel is turned too far in either direction."
Anonymous, NC (2015 Toyota RAV4 LE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"occasionally the phone does not link at start-up or drop the link. It may be the phone because rebooting the LG phone solves this issue some of the times."
Anonymous, NJ (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Difficult to use not reliable"
Enio G., GA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
Anonymous, CA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Bad Radio and also two times vehicle would Not Start. The Electrical system acting strange/intermittent, but Toyota could not find source of problem."
Henry M., OH (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Radio display did not work properly in below freezing weather. A software update fixed the problem."
Greg-Becky J., MI (2015 Toyota RAV4 XLE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Infotainment volume is not high enough to sufficiently overcome driving noise in some conditions."
Andrew S., MA (2015 Toyota RAV4 XLE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
Anonymous, IL (2015 Toyota RAV4 2.5-L 4 Cyl)""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"
Andy Z., NJ (2015 Toyota RAV4 XLE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
Stanley W., NH (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"The manufacturer charges a lot of money to update the software and the outdated cheap navigation system. Have to use a Garmin unit with lifetime free updates since the navigation is so unreliable."
Harvey G., AB (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Premium system is not premium. The bass is nonexistent."
Harvey G., AB (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
Robert H., FL (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
Anonymous, ON (2015 Toyota RAV4 LE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"system simply doesn't work 95% of the time, even though trained with my voice multiple times"
Anonymous, VA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"getting the vehicle to recognize the voice is sometimes tricky. With a center mounted microphone, sometimes it misinterprets what I'm requesting."
Anonymous, MS (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"voice commands never worked properly, the system either said please say again or spouted nonsense, the only exception was when I was waiting @ a red light, when my car was operating on the road it was terrible, I returned to the dealer 4 times an supposedly they got it to work indoors!"
Anonymous, CA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"No matter how many times we train the VC system to recognize our voices, it just doesn't work more than a little. It's more of a distraction than using hte touchscreen while driving."
Dale D., NC (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Randomly, but repeatedly, when I use the voice command function, it causes the screen to freeze, and all functions on the screen (radio, etc.) cease to work. After a few minutes, the system will reboot, and functions return to normal. I have taken it to the dealer twice for this. They have applied the latest updates to the Entune software, but this has not fixed the problem."
Anonymous, TN (2015 Toyota RAV4 XLE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"response time on voice sometimes takes 5 seconds and other times 5 minutes to respond; the dealer looked and said it was fine. I have video footage proving otherwise. I just don't care about the voice feature enough to raise a stink over it but it bugs me the dealer said everything was fine."
Stephen H., PA (2015 Toyota RAV4 XLE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"Does not understand commands"
Richard C., FL (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"system does not understand commands when spoken at normal volume levels and speed"
Anonymous, WA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
Brody B., AR (2015 Toyota RAV4 XLE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"voice commands work only with the car not moving. any other time you receive mumbo jumbo. dealer says it works fine"
Allan E., CA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"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"
Michael M., OH (2015 Toyota RAV4 2.5-L 4 Cyl)"This function is essentially useless whether using for navigation, audio, or anything. If you use it, CANCEL will be the most used function"
Anonymous, VA (2015 Toyota RAV4 Limited 2.5-L 4 Cyl)
"unable to see it in daylight"
Rita A., SD (2015 Toyota RAV4 LE 2.5-L 4 Cyl)