2007 toyota rav4. Consumer states dissatisfaction related to the replacement of a defective oil line. *tgw the consumer stated she did not experience a failure but wanted the oil line replaced for safety reasons, because it could cause catastrophic damage to the engine and she drives many miles each day week for work. The consumer paid the dealer to replace the part, but they decided to replace it with another rubber oil line instead of the all metal line which she had requested.
2007 Toyota RAV4 engine complaints
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We bought our toyota, a new 2007/4430c rav4 (5-door 4x2 SUV), on 9/7/07, and have noticed several problems in the operation of this vehicle. Our rav4 currently has around 24,000 miles on it, and the problems have neither increased nor decreased in frequency. Because these problems are intermittent, our dealer, dunning toyota of ann arbor, michigan, was unable to replicate what we experience. However, we believe that documenting this situation is important as problems'some of which sound similar to what we have experienced'are currently surfacing on other toyota vehicles. Problems we have experienced ever since we have had the vehicle include: (1) intermittent engine surges. These occur when accelerating, braking, or simply coasting. The RPM needle visibly fluctuates, and passengers can feel the surging and 'choking' of the engine. (2) the gas pedal sometimes does not smoothly engage, and the car 'jumps' ahead when the pedal seems to finally engage. (3) occasionally the car does not seem to slow when the brake is applied. In the winter of 2008, I was traveling at a low speed (beginning to accelerate from a stop) on slick pavement when the car in front of me unexpectedly stopped in the middle of an intersection. I immediately applied the brake but the car did not seem to slow down. The resulting collision resulted in $615.63 in damage to our vehicle. I do not know the exact date of the accident. The police were notified but no tickets were issued. I just put an arbitrary month and date below so I could continue to the next page of this report.
I bought the brand new 2007 rav4 limited v6 from chicago grossinger toyota 2 and 1/2 years ago. There was some boiling water noise coming out from the engine at around 28k miles. I took the rav4 to the cgt dealer for repair since it was still under the warranty. The customer service rep. Told me that the reason why the engine had some boiling water noise because the camshaft was bended. He lied! He didn't even tell me that the oil hose was the cause of the damage. The noise problem was fixed (hopefully) but I don't know if the actual problem is still going or not because I found there were a lot of complaints about the same problem that I had online. Most complaints said that the problem was because the oil pipe was made with half rubber/metal. The rubber part will soon be cracked due to the weather or something. I called the cgt customer rep to verify this problem and then he told me that my car might have that problem and he was aware of that so he told me that they had switched oil pipe to metal. He lied again! I checked it and the oil pipe is still made with half rubber and metal. He seems like covering something. I believe this problem has had been existing for a long time but toyota never do anything about it. This is a very serious issue. Toyota has to be liable of the driver and passengers safety if their products are defective.
2007 toyota rav 4: enginetype v6 1) driving car on highway at night, stopped at light, smelled oil burning thought smell was from other vehicles. Continued to drive when stopped at next stop light smelled oil burning, saw light trails of smoke around head lights. Watched gauges and got the car home. 2) shut of engine raised hood and removed plastic engine cover. Saw oil was all over the passenger side front of engine near fire wall and wheel on well cover. Had wife start car, saw oil squirting in a small stream from a rubber hose attached to metal pipe. The pipe the hose was attached to was attached to engines cylinder head next to fire wall at the front of the cylinder head. 3) I have had the car since dec. 2007 when it was brand new it now has 80,000. Miles. I talked to the local dealer about this specific failure, I was told there was a bulletin for this problem. I gave the dealer my VIN and mileage, I was told my VIN was not on the list and my miles were well over the vehicles warranty limit of 3 years or 36,000 miles. I was told if I wanted a quote I would need to get it towed in and they would give me a quote for the work. At this time based on all the information still am investigating my options for this repair to attempt to reduce my costs. The repair of this failed oil line entails the removal of the complete failed oil line end to end and the installation of a complete metal pipe assembly. So far I am finding this failure seems to be a quite common with this model engine with this oil line configuration. Based on this failure and that it is a know problem with toyota, I'm very disappointed that I'm stuck with all the costs. Plus I could for see in some failures one might not detect the problem thus experiencing a full engine failure. I would have to believe if it is covered under warranty, you'll never receive a complaint on this problem. From a cross sectional point, your only experiencing those of us trapped with a design flaw.
2007 toyota rav4 v-6 manufacturing defect with the oil line of the vvt-I camshaft. Poor quality of rubber line has caused multiple failures which has resulted in catastrophic engine damage, engine fires. Toyota is conducting voluntary recalls with certain VIN's, however this voluntary recall does not adequately address the problem. Toyota knows of this manufacturing defect and has redesigned oil line accordingly, but is not offering this redesigned oil line to customers affected by original defect.
My 2007 rav 4 hesitates when I depress gas pedal. It began happening shortly after purchase in 2007 and the problem has increased in frequency & duration. Yesterday I started a left hand turn while oncoming traffic was clear, but because of vehicle's hesitation, in mid-turn, oncoming traffic suddenly appeared and had to stop for me to complete my turn. I narrowly avoided being in an accident, for which I would have been found at fault, as I was making a left hand turn.
I was driving down the highway with my 2 children and the oil hose broke. No failure lights came on the dashboard. Took car to closest repair shop. They had to add 5 qts of oil since it leaked out. Found out this happens quite frequently on the same engine in another model. The oil hose was replaced.
1. Leading up : a faulty and poorly designed rubber oil line weathered within the engine compartment. 2. Failure: while driving on the freeway, the weathered hose snapped. The car immediately spilled four quarts of oil. The check engine light never lit. The water temperature stayed within range. We had the vehicle towed to a toyota dealership. 3. Repair: toyota replaced the failed oil line with the same part. No engine diagnostics were performed despite the likelihood of serious engine damage. The oil compartment was left dirty. The engine cover was left soaked in oil (it's a foam part).
Toyota v6 engines 2gr-fe have a problem with the vvti oil pipe failing. This pipe has a rubber section in it, it leaks with all the oil draining & causing engine failures. Toyota has replaced this pipe on later vehicle with all metal this started out with the avalon.check out the ravworld on line site. Click on "4.3" & then "oil line failure rav camry, lexus" etc. Toyota needs to recall all vehicles with 2gr-fe v6 that have the rubber hose in the vvti oil line.
Blown oil line on 2007 toyota rav4.
After a dangerous surge-at-stop problem, we took our 2007 rav4 to our dealer yesterday, but so far they claim they can't find anything wrong. We told the dealer that we don't want the car back until they fix this life-threatening condition. Yesterday was actually the third time that this happened, and each time the problem was more intense than the prior incident. The first time it happened, around three weeks ago, my husband wasn't sure if he had accidentally hit the accelerator, so he ignored it. The second time it happened, five days ago, he was more aware, and knew where his foot was placed, and knew for sure that this was an engine surge entirely unrelated to anything he was doing. It was only because he had his foot placed firmly on the brake that he was able to control the rav4 and prevent it surging past the red light. Yesterday was the worst incident, since the surge happened, again at a red light, with cars passing in front of our rav4 (we were first in line) and when my husband jammed his foot harder on the brake, the engine surged even harder, and louder, and he had to really force the brake pedal down. If our daughter had been driving the rav4 there is no doubt in our minds that she would have gone right into the intersection, and either broadsided a vehicle, or been broadsided herself, with catastrophic results. This seems like the kind of life-threatening condition that the federal safety agency should really focus on, and that toyota should want to immediately fix, before several people get killed.
Oil hose ruptured on '07 toyota rav-4 dumping all engine oil. Engine then was starved for oil and ruined internal engine parts. Toyota is aware that there is a problem with this hose leaking and a tsb exists for the fix. However, there is no recall or even a mandatory inspection of this hose at regular service intervals. Our issue was a complete rupture and it would have cost us thousands to repair on our own if the car was out of warranty. It could have even lead to a crash as the tires and brakes got covered with oil.
My wife was stranded on the side of an interstate when our toyota 2007 rav4 v6 had a catastrophic failure of an oil hose which resulted in the loss of almost all the oil in the engine within a few minutes. The 3.5l v6 engine in this vehicle is identical to the v6 in the toyota avalon which is experiencing a very large number of failures such that a tsb was issued. The avalon started using this engine prior to the rav4. I was told by a parts manager that there are so many of these failures that owners are waiting 6 weeks for the backordered replacement part and that 2500 parts are on national backorder. Toyota knows the same problem exists with the v6 rav4 since the engine is identical but refuses to put out an associated tsb for the rav4. This failure is dangerous in that it can cause the engine to lock up on the highway potentially causing an accident. Toyota is "quietly" replacing the failing hose with a metal hose only after a failure has occurred.(a defect admission of a design flaw). A recall is completely warranted for this defect. Toyota has issued no such recall.
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 toyota rav4. While driving at any speed, the vehicle suddenly stopped accelerating. The contact did not notice any difference beforehand. The current mileage was 9,000 and failure mileage was 4,000. Updated 11/12/08. *cn updated 11/18/08.
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 toyota rav4. While driving 55 MPH with the cruise control activated, the vehicle began to bounce up and down. All of the warning indicators on the instrument panel illuminated. The contact pulled over and called the dealer. The dealer advised him to take the vehicle to a car wash because it had previously been driven through a lot of snow. The failure continued after the vehicle was washed. The vehicle continued to bounce and the contact was pulled over by the police. The dealer was unable to determine or duplicate the failure. The failure mileage was 2,500 and current mileage was 2,600. Updated 02-14-08 *bf updated 02/14/08
Tl*- the contact owns a 2007 toyota rav4. While driving 45 MPH the contact heard a high pitched whistling sound. The dealer stated that they were unable to diagnose the failure. The whistling sound started to occur more frequently, and the vehicle was taken to the dealer, who was unable to diagnose the failure. The contact felt that thiswas a safety issue because it caused the driver to become distracted. The current mileage was 1,500 .
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