Picked Up The Rav, Now A Few Technical Questions!

[Steve_T]

Finally picked up the RAV on Wednesday (thanks to everyone for the pre-purchase advice) and we're loving it so far! Thanks also to Kingo for what seems to be his usual excellent parts ordering service - highly recommended!

I have a few questions, the answers to which are possibly in the handbook, but I wanted to see what other people are doing and a search on here didn't yield much (car is 4.2 D-4D XT3 5 door)...

Tyre pressures - handbook says 2.0 bar all round. Are most people running this, or have you experimented with variations?

Oil - I have a couple of litres of Total Quartz 5W/40 fully synthetic oil left over from our Golf TDi - am I okay to use this in the RAV?

Locking wheel nuts - has anyone replaced their Toyota nuts with some better quality jobbies? I used McGard Ultra to replace the pathetic ones on my Audi and wondered if anyone had used these on their RAV?

Wheel nut torque - what torque are people using for their wheel nuts? After a bad experience with a wheel falling off a couple of years ago, I'm now fastidious about checking them!

Back step - has anyone fitted one of these in conjunction with a towbar - or does the towbar have to be removed first? (it's a standard Witter bar)

Thanks in advance for any answers to the above!

Steve

[PinkMinkee]

ooo thats trippy, we picked up our 5 door xt3 on wednesday too, and have already covered about 250 miles lol, we cant stop going out in it, its soooooooooo easy to drive, park (hard for me to reverse but I am getting the hang of it lol), good old wing mirrors eh :)

sorry bit random, nowt else to say technically wise :)

[anchorman]

Finally picked up the RAV on Wednesday (thanks to everyone for the pre-purchase advice) and we're loving it so far! Thanks also to Kingo for what seems to be his usual excellent parts ordering service - highly recommended!

I have a few questions, the answers to which are possibly in the handbook, but I wanted to see what other people are doing and a search on here didn't yield much (car is 4.2 D-4D XT3 5 door)...

Tyre pressures - handbook says 2.0 bar all round. Are most people running this, or have you experimented with variations?

I run mine very slightly under as for most of the time the car has only me and/or anchorwoman in. It improves the ride and the tyres are wearing very evenly.

Oil - I have a couple of litres of Total Quartz 5W/40 fully synthetic oil left over from our Golf TDi - am I okay to use this in the RAV?

It will be fine to use it up. I use (Morris's) 5W/30 semi synthetic as this is the primary recommendation but you can perhaps get that for your next oil change.

Locking wheel nuts - has anyone replaced their Toyota nuts with some better quality jobbies? I used McGard Ultra to replace the pathetic ones on my Audi and wondered if anyone had used these on their RAV?

I would stay with the Toyota ones. They would need to be pretty determined to get your wheels with them and if they are that determined to get them with "better" ones they will probably trailer your vehicle away anyway.

Wheel nut torque - what torque are people using for their wheel nuts? After a bad experience with a wheel falling off a couple of years ago, I'm now fastidious about checking them!

The correct torque is 102Nm (76 ft/lbs). I will try to attach a pdf file - I noticed JHRC did it successfully the other day. I think you need IE to open it but will somebody tell me if it works?

Back step - has anyone fitted one of these in conjunction with a towbar - or does the towbar have to be removed first? (it's a standard Witter bar)

No experience but maybe you can fathom it out from these instructions and no doubt king will get one if it is OK

http://techdoc.toyota-europe.com/aimupload...X0541-ZA_ZB.pdf

Thanks in advance for any answers to the above!

Steve

Congrats on the new motor!

[Steve_T]

Thanks Anchorman - appreciate the responses!

PDF opened fine - and was just what I was looking for. Think I need to check if the design of the Witter bar is similar to the Toyota one - particularly the mounting nut locations.

[anchorman]

Thanks Anchorman - appreciate the responses!

PDF opened fine - and was just what I was looking for. Think I need to check if the design of the Witter bar is similar to the Toyota one - particularly the mounting nut locations.

Steve

There should be a pdf on the servicing data but it exceded my upload quota apparently.

If you pm your email address I will send it to you.

Regards

[Fujisan]

Well done Steve! Looks very nice.

Don't forget to put up a few photos in the RAV photo thread, if you get chance please! B)

[JHRC]

Hi Anchorman,

I managed to attach pdf files by using the panel below this comment box, drop down box to (Manage Current Attachments) and Browse my files and pressed upload. you are allowed 100K max, I have used 54K with my attached file which only leaves 46K spare until I delete previous attachments. Not ideal for large file or permanent atachments, like a service procedure maybe wrong. I think the way you did it using a link to toyota publication is definitely better.

Cheers Jim.

[dave.m]

Steve, re the tow bar/ step, I'm sure there are a few threads on this on Rav4 World.

And congrats on your Rav purchase, enjoy it

[anchorman]

Hi Anchorman,

I managed to attach pdf files by using the panel below this comment box, drop down box to (Manage Current Attachments) and Browse my files and pressed upload. you are allowed 100K max, I have used 54K with my attached file which only leaves 46K spare until I delete previous attachments. Not ideal for large file or permanent atachments, like a service procedure maybe wrong. I think the way you did it using a link to toyota publication is definitely better.

Cheers Jim.

Thanks Jim

Yes I have an old file still attached so it has used up the quota. I seem to remember that some couldn't read the pdf file but that could be because they were using firefox browser. The pdf is a 2 page service summary at 1.21kb so just too big.

Thanks anyway.

[JHRC]

Hi Anchorman,

I managed to attach pdf files by using the panel below this comment box, drop down box to (Manage Current Attachments) and Browse my files and pressed upload. you are allowed 100K max, I have used 54K with my attached file which only leaves 46K spare until I delete previous attachments. Not ideal for large file or permanent atachments, like a service procedure maybe wrong. I think the way you did it using a link to toyota publication is definitely better.

Cheers Jim.

Thanks Jim

Yes I have an old file still attached so it has used up the quota. I seem to remember that some couldn't read the pdf file but that could be because they were using firefox browser. The pdf is a 2 page service summary at 1.21kb so just too big.

Thanks anyway.

I use Mozilla Firefox to browse supposed to be more secure than IE and have no problem reading pdf files.

Cheers Jim.

[Parts-King]

The rear step is compatable with the genuine tow bar, however I dont know if the Witter bar will allow fittment

5w 30 semi synthetic oil is perfectly acceptable and widely used by the dealer network

Kingo

[chatman]

I use Mozilla Firefox to browse supposed to be more secure than IE and have no problem reading pdf files.

Cheers Jim.

Also try Opera browser out Click Here a bit better than Firefox and thousand times better than IE..... Use the widget feature in Opera as well, and make your own web pages and search favourites easier....

Uploading pdf files into photobucket also helps and also give rapidshare a go as well...no limitations. Anchorman you and SHCM could add all your library RAV pages here for reference as well...