Seven problems related to car stall have been reported for the 1997 Toyota RAV4. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
While vehicle was at idle and with no warning the vehicle will stall, causing consumer to pull over. Dealer will be notified.
Problem of stalling and vehicle acceleration ongoing since June. . Now August and back to dealer again as this is very dangerous in traffic especially with children in vehicle. .
The car has a stalling problem. I have taken back to the dealership twice for this problem. The car initially just had a starting problem where it will start and stalls immediately. The last time I took it to the dealership they told me it the starter and I had it replaced, but it is still doing the same thing. It does not matter if the car is cold or warm. I could just pull into a gas station and it won't start. If I wait about ten minutes, it will start again. But, I have no idea when this will happen. Yesterday, driving on the highway going about 60mph the car just stalled. I was lucky enough to be able to drift to the shoulder. I waited about ten minutes and it started again. There is no rhyme of reason to this, there is no warning of any kind.
My rav has had 2 engine replacements the first at 16,000 miles and the second at 49,000 miles. The first one happened when it stalled out going through an extremely large puddle of water on the access road and the second for no apparent reason.
While driving vehicle on freeway about 80 mph had attempted to change lanes when vehicle suddenly stalled or died out for no reason in heavy traffic; everything went out.
Car stalled twice.
Vehicle stalls in rainy weather.