Three problems related to transmission noise have been reported for the 2002 Toyota RAV4. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2002 Toyota RAV4 based on all problems reported for the 2002 RAV4.
The car make noise,by the transmission area and the 3 gear not working when the car is already hot. I think my car still under garanty is only 128,000 miles.
When I was driving about 40mph the car would lurch, not all the time, but every so often. When I was backing up the car would make a clunking noise. I took my car to have the transmission repaired with my mechanic, it was repaired but the local but he said that if the computer part of the transmission isn't dealt with, it would happen again. I went to the Toyota dealership with the recall paperwork that my mechanic printed out for me and they said that 10 years have passed and they wouldn't honor the recall.
My car started to rev without any forward gain in distance when I depressed the accelerator. I took it into the Toyota dealership and was told the transmission fluids just needed to be flushed, but that there was no metal in it. Two days later I took my car back in for the same revving and bucking problem. The team manager checked the transmission out again and. Reassured me that all was fine and asked me to ride with him to prove it. The car did not buck. I was given a story about how the computer resets when the car is worked on, and that it was set for a more aggressive driver. Today, I barely made it home from the mountains. My rav crawled over the pass and kept jerking from 30-60 rpms with noise but no acceleration gain. I cannot count on the car to take me to work until it is fixed properly.