Toyota RAV4 Owners Manual: Reporting safety defects for u.S. Owners
If you believe that your vehicle has a defect which could cause a crash or could cause injury or death, you should immediately inform the national highway traffic safety administration (nhtsa) in addition to notifying toyota motor sales, u.S.A., Inc.
(Toll-free: 1-800-331-4331).
If nhtsa receives similar complaints, it may open an investigation, and if it finds that a safety defect exists in a group of vehicles, it may order a recall and remedy campaign. However, nhtsa cannot become involved in individual problems between you, your dealer, or toyota motor sales, u.S.A., Inc.
To contact nhtsa, you may call the vehicle safety hotline toll-free at 1-888-327-4236 (tty: 1-800-424-9153); go to http://www.Safercar.Gov ; or write to: administrator, nhtsa, 1200 new jersey ave, s.E., Washington, dc 20590. You can also obtain other information about motor vehicle safety from http://www.Safercar.Gov.
For owners
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Seat belt instructions
for canadian owners
(in french)
The following is a french explanation of seat belt instructions
extracted from the seat belt section in this manual.
See the seat belt section for more detailed seat belt instructions in
english.
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Other materials:
Air conditioning filter
The air conditioning filter must be changed regularly to maintain
air conditioning efficiency.
Removal method
Vehicles without a smart key system: turn the engine switch to the
“lock” position.
Vehicles with a smart key system: turn the engine switch off.
Open the glove box. Slide ...
Steering angle sensor
Components
Removal
Precaution
Caution:
Be sure to read the "precaution" thoroughly
before servicing (see page rs-1).
Disconnect cable from negative battery
terminal
Caution:
Wait at least 90 seconds after disconnecting the
cable from the negative (-) battery termin ...
Transmission fluid temperature sensor "A" performance
Description
Refer to dtc p0710 (see page ax-46).
Monitor description
This dtc indicates that there is a problem with output from the atf
temperature sensor and that the
sensor itself is defective. The atf temperature sensor converts the atf
temperature to an electrical
resistance v ...
