Toyota RAV4 Change Vehicle

"lettering too light on clock. Radio/CD change displays without warning"

"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"

"Multimedia system got stuck in endless reboot cycle and failed to function."

"It freezes about once or twice a month. Sometimes comes back on it's own, sometimes after turning car off."

"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"

"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."

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

"Stops functioning and have to stop and restart the car"

"The screen went blank. Took car into dealer who replaces the whole radio system which was under warranty."

"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..."

"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"

"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."

"Interface fails to recognize tracks on most USB memory sticks."

"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"

"The whole audio screen and navigation system had to be replaced, thank goodness I bought a warranty, it would have cost $3000!"

"system is useless. cannot recognize any voice commands and gives nonsense results. Toyota could do a free software update"

"Outdated system that is inaccurate and dangerous"

"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 so bad that do not use. could be an easy software update if Toyota wanted satisfied customers"

"Does not no where it is at"

"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"

"Does not always pair up with the blue tooth"

"The phone will disconnect a call when the steering wheel is turned too far in either direction."

"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."

"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."

"At times the phone will not interphase"

"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."

"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"

"Bad Radio and also two times vehicle would Not Start. The Electrical system acting strange/intermittent, but Toyota could not find source of problem."

"Radio display did not work properly in below freezing weather. A software update fixed the problem."

"Infotainment volume is not high enough to sufficiently overcome driving noise in some conditions."

"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"

"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."

"Premium system is not premium. The bass is nonexistent."

"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"

"system simply doesn't work 95% of the time, even though trained with my voice multiple times"

"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!"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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"

"getting the vehicle to recognize the voice is sometimes tricky. With a center mounted microphone, sometimes it misinterprets what I'm requesting."

"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"

"sun/moon roof leaked and filled floorboard with water."

"water leaked inside the vehicle from the sun roof, because drain pipes were clogged."

"Debris can clog the drain tubes near the sunroof and cause leaking. Leaks came from under dash, out of screws in visor, from ceiling."

"Sunroof drains in rocker panels plug up and water gets on driver side carpet"

"Noticed moldy smell in the car. During a heavy rainstorm sheets of water fell into my lap. Front windshield leaked into the ceiling of the car. Fixed myself with silicone sealant along outside weatherstripping. On a damp day still smells mouldy inside"

"The seals allow for devris to clog drain tubes resulting in leaks, mold/mildew."

"after heavy rain, water can get into the drainage channel from the sunroof down to the drainage beneath the car. This channel can get clogged and back up, causing drips and pooling in the front passenger side footwell."

"mechanism around sunroof was rattling; dealer fixed"

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

"The vents in the dashboard rattle. When I told the dealer about this, I was told the entire dash would have to be taken out to fix the rattles, so it would be too expensive."

"seat rattle noise"

"Passenger compartment fan has been squeaking whenever it is turned on. Very annoying on long road trips."

"Fan inside dashboard developed annoying noise when running"

"Loose covering in rear wheel well & unknown unidentifiable noise that stopped"

"Liftgate makes a noise when opening and closing."

"We have had a squeak from suspension components since 4000 miles. We have had it in a dealership over 15 times now. One dealer could never reproduce it, other heard it but after replacing many parts, issue still occurs on a daily basis."

"Rattling sound coming fro engine compartment."

"Dealer replaced the front sway bar which was defective."

"There is an intermittent rattle/rubbing sound coming from the area above the rear view mirror. Of course, when we took it to the dealer, it wasn't making the sound. We'll be taking it back soon"

"When the temperature is colder than around 10 degrees, it sounds like the "hard" interior materials (like plastic) are cracking -- very loud - although no visible damage"

"Rattle in dash by radio/climate system. Only on roads that are not smooth"

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

"Plastic parts on dashboard squeaking"

"something is producing a nagging noise inside driver's side door.."

"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"

"Most noise I have ever experienced in a vehicle. Hard to have a conversation while driving. Also road noise due to poor insulation and very rough ride"

"This vehicle is not quiet at freeway speeds. Road noise and wind noise can be very wearing depending on the road surface."

"Due to the lifted molding on the front window passenger side, there's constant wind noise when I drive over 45 mph. It's annoying."

"I think this is more road noise than wind noise, but you didn't have a box for that."

"It seems to have a lot of road noise. It may be the tires"

"louder than expected"

"the tires are loud, there is a lot of interior noise with this vehicle"

"The car is too noisy, it is not a problem but is uncomfortable"

"Windows rolled up tight still have too much wind sound. Also too much road noise."

"it has been the problem that Toyota hasn't corrected on some of their cars, I wish they put more insulation around : floors, doors, etc."

"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"

"Needed to replace both pads and rotors on front only."

"replaced front Brake pads and resurfaced front rotors"

"brake pad were thin. new pads and rotors"

"Brakes were replaced by the dealer repair shop, cost for this is outrageous."

"After I purchased this used vehicle out of town, I took it to my local mechanic, who determined the brakes needed to be replaced, something that was not disclosed by the used car dealer. My mechanic replaced the brakes and the car has worked fine."

"Replaced rear brake Pads and Rotors"

"noise in wheel. Had it looked at by TOYOTA which could not identify the problem Went to Pep Boys who identified the problem and replaced the breaks."

"Had to replace brake pads, normal wear & tear possibly from previous owner"

"normal brake wear consistent with number of km driven."

"Front brake pads had to be replaced."

"In this instance, the Toyota Service representative claimed that my brake pads were showing excessive wear, and my rotors had to be turned. The brakes were working well, but they were making more noise than usual (when wet). I recently learned that Toyota did some time ago issue an alert for such problems on Year 2015 models. I have not ha the time to follow up on that information. Without question, the problem was not a normally expected one."

"Front brakes pads and rotors needed replacement at 43798 km I think that was poor."

"Brakes developed a grinding noise when brakes were applied. Our mechanic felt it was road debris (i.e. road sand, salt, etc. We have 10 months of winter here, and 2 months of poor sleddin, so plenty of road salt and sand to contend with) This could have caused the early problems with the brakes. Both pads and rotor were replaced last August."

"I'm not a hard on the brake pedal nor do I drive a great deal but I had the car into Toyota complaining about the feel of the brakes at least two times before it was said I needed new brakes when the warranty expired. This vehicle is not like the Toyota's of the past."

"I had to replace the brakes at 15000 miles, which I felt was very early in wear."

"So few miles driven over 2 years for brakes and rotor wear to such a degree on the right front wheel seems very unusual"

"The disks and pads had to be replaced after only 40,000 KM. This is much less than with our Camry 2011."

"Brakes replaced under warranty"

"when not driven for 2 months rear brakes rusted , sized, and had to be completely rebuilt."

"Back brake calipers get under used on a low mileage driven car and seize up."

"Brakes were rusted, might have been because we didn't drive much in the winter"

"Front break pads wore more quickly than expected and required replacement"

"It came from the Toyota dealer certified with warped rotors.They refused to replace them until I called Toyota USA ."

"this was due to the extreme rusting of the rotors and calipers"

"Every time the car is due for brake service the rotors must be replaced. I have never been able to replace just the pads."

"Right front rotor developed a surface defect and along within the brakes needed replacement. For the miles driven I thought this was very unusual with such low milage and modest driving."

"If this vehicle is allowed to sit without being driven for a period of time of approximately a week or more, even if garaged and with the emergency brake off, the brake rotors grind and seize when the car is subsequently driven. Toyota has resurfaced the rotors twice on this vehicle, at their expense, but insist that there is no problem with the brakes. I've never experienced this kind of problem in any of the many automobile that I have owned over the years. I believe that this is a manufacturing defect."

"I had to replace all four rotors the day after I drove it off the lot. The dealer lied about the vibrations .I called Toyota USA and they made the dealer do all repairs free."

"Brake pad replacement at 60,000 miles was expected. But the rotors were rusted and pitted to the point that they had to be replaced. We've never had a this problem with any of our other vehicles. The metal composition of the rotors should be of a much higher quality. The brake pads were not completely worn out. The rotors should not rust or wear to the point of requiring replacement in such a short period of time."

"Dealer found new brakes needed."

"so noisy they had to be replaced"

"We worked with Toyota for a fix to this problem when the car was new.They replaced the brakes with a fix from engineers and now the problem is back."

"Brakes squeaked and were grabby. after only 24000 miles had to replace front brake pads"

"Squel"

"For the first 5 minutes of every drive, I can hear rubbing or squeaking every time I brake. This is a brand new vehicle!!!"

"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"