general problems of the 2018 Toyota RAV4

Both headlights and taillights are stained on the inside of the lens with a white residue. My headlights are very streaky and it makes it difficult to see out of. Not the outside of the headlight, because when I rub my hands along the outsides, I do not feel any grabbing, scratches, film, etc.

Wiring harness in many vehicles defective. Letter sent, but not a recall. I drove from NY to va unaware that a headlight was out- I had to change bulbs several times, and ended up having to pay $500 for a new lighting system because I put the bulb in (apparently) wrong the 5th time. Accident could have happened due to bad lighting, but fortunately did not. Toyota did not make this issue easily known, or easily fixed.

Starting late aug2020 the dashboard starting to show warning lights randomly and inconsistently. All warning lights do not come at the same time but when turning the external lights on other warning lights turn on and so far the car have stalled more than 4 times while driving under 40 mph. The last 3 times the car started right after being parked and but this last time it did not and while I was waiting for a tow almost had an accident from behind me as the car that was coming behind me stopped and was hit by another car behind him. I took it to the dealer and since it is out of warranty they would not touch it and all they did was disconnect the battery so the warranting lights turn off and send me back out and with in 15 min on the road the lights started to comeback on again but the car did not die on the road. The car is barely 3 years old and only have 14,500 miles on it and it is becoming very unreliable to drive.

I have an auto shit off for high beam lights, I turn my high beams on and they don't work, and when I pull the switch back like I am trying to flash my high beams at someone they work but when I turn them on to keep them on they do not work and my auto high beam light does not come on either.

The headlights on my Rav4 are dangerous. When driving at night there is a dark line with no visibility. There is no reaction time if objects are in the roadway. I live in a rural area, on my way to work there was a pine tree that fell across the road way,I crashed straight into it. I did not even see it until I hit it.

We bought our Rav4 fresh of the lot in 2018, since then e we have replaced the headlight bulbs 43 times. Now our fog lights and license plate light are out. This time the bulb (installed by a professional) melting the actual socket and we have to built the entire thing out and replace it.

The auto high beam feature has been choosing to disengage and turn itself off at random. There are also times that at night, upon start-up, the auto high beam system will refuse to engage (light switch turned to auto and stalk pushed forward, driving over 25 mph).

Brand new recently purchased vehicle and there is condensation in both head lights.

My Rav4 has very poor lighting at night making it hard to see the lines on the road. I just bought this vehicle new a few days ago but the dealership says that they cannot find any defects with the head light but does agree the light output is poor.

Headlamp provides dangerously insufficient illumination while driving in any of the following situations: dark, curved, or hilly roads (such as us highway 1 in marin county, skyline blvd in oakland, CA). 1. Very little peripheral illumination on curves 2. Sharp horizontal cut-off results in short beam projection when ascending or descending hills. Both of these occur simultaneously and is frighteningly dangerous when ascending/descending on curves. The NHTSA form asks for a date this occurred. Pls note this is ongoing unless a dealer can make significant modifications to the beam spread. (this is not a problem of course on brightly lit roads. ).

Just bought my new Toyota rav 4 2018 and realized that I can't drive it at night. My windshield turns dark 1/3 to 1/2 from the bottom and continues all the way to the top. It's actually worse when driving home and going up my unlit hill when instead of my brights going on automatically, only my low lights are on. I am frightened to drive my car and now realize that there were online complaints going back years!.