Help! What Has My Daughter Done?

January 11, 2005

My daughter has just returned from buying her first ever 4x4 (Rav4) As she was driving home from picking it up she was pressing buttons to see what they did !!!! she pressed the Diff botton and now we have a continuos bleep inside the car....how bad is this ???? She has only just bought it less than 2 hrs ago.

January 12, 2005

My daughter has just returned from buying her first ever 4x4 (Rav4) As she was driving home from picking it up she was pressing buttons to see what they did !!!! she pressed the Diff botton and now we have a continuos bleep inside the car....how bad is this ???? She has only just bought it less than 2 hrs ago.
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erm.. cant help you on that one but the simplest solution would be to ring the garage/seller and find out that way... :yes:

January 12, 2005

dunno if 4x4 engages on the rav4 whilst driving or has free wheeling hubs , on my vitara i have to lock the front hubs then engage 4 high whilst standing still , but some 4x4 require you to reverse to engage free wheeling hubs , dunno what the diff button would be for any road. on a rav 4 . ??????

January 28, 2005

dunno if 4x4 engages on the rav4 whilst driving or has free wheeling hubs , on my vitara i have to lock the front hubs then engage 4 high whilst standing still , but some 4x4 require you to reverse to engage free wheeling hubs , dunno what the diff button would be for any road. on a rav 4 . ??????
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:lol: :lol: my brother did this all we did was parked up with engine running out of gear hand brake on an d left it a minute if continus put in and out of gear and press button.it does stop took a bit of fiddling but worked read the owners manuel in the glove box

June 20, 2005

dunno if 4x4 engages on the rav4 whilst driving or has free wheeling hubs , on my vitara i have to lock the front hubs then engage 4 high whilst standing still , but some 4x4 require you to reverse to engage free wheeling hubs , dunno what the diff button would be for any road. on a rav 4 . ??????
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my brother did this all we did was parked up with engine running out of gear hand brake on an d left it a minute if continus put in and out of gear and press button.it does stop took a bit of fiddling but worked read the owners manuel in the glove box
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at a wild guess i would say it would lock the differential gear on the rear wheels. If you didnt already know, the diff gear allows the two wheels to spin at a different speed, if they didnt you wouldnt corner properly ( outside wheel needs to go faster). trouble is, if you are stuck in mud, or rather one wheel is in mud, because that wheel is easier to turn, all the power goes to it and it spins, the other stays still. By locking the diff you force equal power to each wheel, meaning the one that is on solid ground turns, and you get out of the mud....

engaging it when it isnt needed would at best wear out your tyre as you would have to skid to corner ( only slightly ) and at worst cuase you to lose control i guess ( due to skiding ), maybe even damage the diff