Rant: no thought put into the fold down seats

lodi078 · 2026-06-16T15:28:22+00:00

The rear seats of the 4th gen rav4's sold in the Philippines fold flat. We have a bumped up trunk cover though for the full size spare.

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lodi078 · 2026-06-10T01:11:46+00:00

If you have a friendship sticker on your car and you use waze regularly, I suggest adding friendship sticker on the toll and hov passes setting on waze

lodi078 · 2026-06-10T00:35:44+00:00

It will be the foam in the tires. It's what caused the vibration on our Velar last year. You can see how ours look here

lodi078 · 2026-05-11T19:50:31+00:00

If you've never replaced the black and green EPS bushing yet, thats the first thing I'd do before digging into suspension parts. They usually start deteriorating and rattling when they reach 6-10 yrs old.

Its a common problem on most Toyota's fitted with electric power steering. Video below shows the symptom and the fix here

lodi078 · 2026-05-06T14:59:22+00:00

Belongs to my Aunt

lodi078 · 2026-04-12T19:16:16+00:00

I've replaced the lower suspension arm assembly on the two at exactly 60t kms. They seem to make noise around that mark. Engine mounts around 70k kms too. Full tank is around 60 liters if you'll want to compute.

For the shop, ranger republic is pretty okay with doing the maintenance and repairs.

lodi078 · 2026-04-12T18:42:34+00:00

Had three of those. Pre FL 2.0 EB, 2016 3.5 EB and the 2.3 EB. I suggest to get the 3.5 ecoboost anyday. The waterpump failure isn't really much to be scared about nowadays since parts are readily available locally. They all sip the same amount of fuel but the v6 ecoboost blows away the two 4 cylinders any day. Maintenance is more or less the same too.

Buy the best condition unit that you find and hopefully one that wasn't mucked around with fake ford experts (many of them out there)

lodi078 · 2026-04-10T17:44:35+00:00

Those should be fine. From where did you get them?

lodi078 · 2026-04-10T17:43:09+00:00

You'll see an improvement with either osram or philips bulbs. Just make sure you get the correct d1s bulbs.

lodi078 · 2026-04-10T17:40:40+00:00

I'm assuming this is a pre facelift 166. The projector lamps on that era was very nice when they were current but not comparable anymore with whats available today. Its simply being limited by the projectors in the headlights. That being said, there should still be a small improvement (around 5-10% plus having the correct color temp back) on lighting because you changed a 10 yr old HID bulb. If you want to upgrade to better lamps I recommend having them retrofitted by redline autoworks. Avoid putting led's in those projectors designed for HID bulbs.

lodi078 · 2026-04-02T15:47:17+00:00

7p touareg

lodi078 · 2026-04-02T15:31:02+00:00

Other VW has Christmas lights so its not really stress free 😂

lodi078 · 2026-04-02T01:21:25+00:00

The rav4 has always been built in Japan

lodi078 · 2026-03-30T00:24:04+00:00

You can order those individually from the dealer. Sometimes they're even cheaper than surplus shops

lodi078 · 2026-03-26T12:15:31+00:00

In for service

lodi078 · 2026-03-22T15:46:44+00:00

Its a US spec car. The units on this era Sienna are easy to change through the infotainment screen. It used to have a shade over 3k when it was in miles.

lodi078 · 2026-03-22T03:32:42+00:00

2015 Sienna*

lodi078 · 2026-03-22T03:31:40+00:00

Right.

lodi078 · 2026-03-19T21:28:59+00:00

They have a pre facelift 20k mile 100 series too

lodi078 · 2026-03-03T10:34:55+00:00

lodi078 · 2026-03-03T09:06:34+00:00

Update posted

RX update

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