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Re: RAV 4 - GOOD / BAD ???	Sat, 29 May 2004 06:36

My father bought one brand new in 1998, manual, with the Cruiser pack (and moonroof) worst car he's ever owned and it was the final straw for him to stop buying toyotas. (he owned landcruisers before the RAV4) at 500 K's from new the gearbox refused to go into 2nd and basically had to be double clutched and slammed in. The dealership service department didnt want to know about it and basically refused to fix the problem. (They also broke and damaged some of the interior plastics but thats another story) Thru a friend, another dealership's service manager took the car for a drive and agreed, that although you do need to be somewhat slow and precise with the manual gearbox in the RAV4 and guide it into gear, rather than slam it, something was wrong with it. (this all took around 6mths to come about) Completely new gearbox was fitted under warranty at the second dealership and all was well for about another 2,000 ks until the replacement gearbox started showing the same kind of reluctance to go into all forward gears, especially first. My father bailed on it, sold it as quickly as possible and bought a new Pajero. The whole family hated that car, even though it had a great revvy motor and handled a few offroad trips no worries, the gearbox woes soured it all. The same friend who put us onto the second dealership, his son had an automatic version which was on its third auto box at 80,000 ks. [Report message to a moderator]

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