What the Hell Did Toyota Just Do to the Rav4

rev up your engines this is a carvana car it's weird you buy it and they give you seven days to check it out kind of putting a cart before the horse we're gonna see if this thing has any hidden problems we're gonna start with this little machine here it is a v-dyed paint thickness measure we can see if this thing's been repainted and wrecked 76.9 microns now there's nothing wrong with that if it's only off point microns that doesn't mean anything even the computers that spray paint them but we're going to chuck all around the car to see if there's any spots so far they're all relatively close you're going to find that different parts of the car are going to have different thicknesses because the machines aren't going to paint perfectly one piece versus another piece especially vertical versus horizontal what we're looking for is dramatic changes but there's nothing outrageous yet okay 7.5 6.3 was probably hitting the back and repainted i can kind of figure it out because when i look at the paint here i can see it's somewhat irregular and there's a dimple here so let's look under here yeah you always got to get a little scratches because people bump into it but what you want to look for is any serious damage on here of which there's none somebody probably hit the rear and they had to repaint the trunk that's no big deal it looks good enough but a perfectionist when they see the waves here they're not going to like it can the apple red's got a nice pop to it but you can't see it's got a little more sparkle up here that's out here like i say no big deal but it's something to know now this is a hybrid it's not a plug-in hybrid it's a regular hybrid we got to get my fancy computer out to check the hybrid system out with this hybrid system hey he gets 35 miles a gallon average that's pretty good for a vehicle that's as fast and is relatively heavy and relatively high up in the ground as it is and also taking into effect that it is an all-wheel drive vehicle it's phenomenal gas mod was all wheel drive they sucked the gas down so let's get out the fancy little computer so here comes the real truth easy to get to toyota made it white so you can see the data port very easily all right it's setting itself up do auto scan got the vin number red four hybrid vehicle automatic scan here we go look at this thing fly man it's going through 32 systems it's just flying through them there's no codes there no codes there okay here's a failure these lane keeping things they're kind of funky it says there's a problem in the history of the steering angle sensor now we have any lights or anything on a lot of times people fix these things and they don't reset them so we'll check some more stuff there's another one failure and main body remote starter communication stop that means that the remote starter acted up at one time another thing you change the battery it'll mess with the codes so we're going to erase that too clear codes and we'll check more stuff back door has a failure lost communication with control module again sometimes the batteries go bad in these the battery in the car is weaker replaced people don't reset it so we'll reset that too there's codes like these that you should never be scared of because they really don't mean all that much so there's a combination meter we'll see what that says communication is lost lost communication again these are communication loss codes often gonna be weak batteries so i'll erase that too take it for a spin and see what happens but before we do that we'll start it up [Music] now it is a hybrid so it doesn't always start but it started now and we'll look at live data you can see we have 220 points of data that we can look at it's color coded so we're just going to watch things and see if anything looks odd so far everything looks pretty good you can see there are 220 points of data batteries charging fine short-term fuel trim is 1.562 it's running slightly lean probably needs the fuel injectors cleaned ignition advance you notice is stable at 23 meaning the engine is in excellent shape we're still going through the data nothing odd has been shown it's perfect it's got no misfire counts zero for all cylinders so basically it's an excellent shape so let's take it for a spin oh this is a hybrid car so other than the fan blowing you don't hear anything it's quiet and being a rav4 you're relatively high up in the ground you got a good view give it a little gas it's got plenty of horsepower with that extra boost and when we do the regenerative braking you can hear the wine at regenerating power now the most popular one of these these days is the rav4 plug-in hybrid where you can charge it and drive so far this isn't a plug-in but considering you can average 35 miles a gallon and a little less uv that goes as fast as this thing can it also has an all-wheel drive transmission you really can't complain and although i'm not really a hybrid fan myself you're gonna buy a hybrid you might as well buy a toyota you know what they're doing they've been building these things for decades the handle's nice in the twist he's a lot better than the older rav4s did it also rides a lot better than the older rav4s they've definitely made the suspension system better than it used to be and since this is a hybrid we'll come to a stop at our little drag strip and then take off from zero and uh it's got decent acceleration for something that gets 35 miles a gallon makes a lot of noise but hey got the nav screen and everything on it and it gives you a lot of information about the gas mods that you're going to be getting now of course it's horrible gas mileage because i'm driving like a maniac lesson to be learned you want gas mileage don't drive like i'm driving during this road test i am driving this car hard because i want to see if there's any kind of problems are going to show up cause if he's got a problem he can take it back to carvana and get his money back so i'm going to be pushing this thing when you turn the fan off it's really quiet especially if you turn the turn signal off because now the electric motor is just there the engine isn't running we'll see how it transitions when we take off when that light turns green okay we'll step in the gas pretty smooth transition you barely recognize that the thing has started itself back up not a bad transition at all see that when we step on the brake now it's in charging mode and it's recharging the battery rather than reading numbers like the old priuses it's kind of cool to see a gauge that shows you how much it's charging with the gauge that's right in front of your eyes so you have to look over there you're looking straight down it really handles nice and the twisties it's a much better handling rav4 than the earlier models were it certainly has good viewing ports all around there's no real blind spots and i love these oversized mirrors now as we drive it around with everything turned off i'm listening to the wheel bearings and everything there's no real roaring wheel bearings like if it had been in a big wreck but it doesn't show signs of that so i assume somebody tapped the rear of the vehicle and bent the trunk and then they had to fix it and repaint it and that's why the paint is a little off on the trunk thicker on one side than the other and has a little of a kind of uneven sheen when you look at it sideways you can see the reflections aren't right i really like the black and silver and gray interior i think it really looks nice especially the two-tone seats a lot of carrying space but really i'm checking this thing out see if it's worth buying we'll go back to my little computer and now we'll scan it again and see if any of the codes came back and as we can see going through the mall none of the cards have come back so i'm assuming that was just because somebody changed the battery or the remote went bad somebody replaced it didn't reset anything so electronically mechanically everything's fine you got to look under the hood though he said it was in michigan and arizona well i knew it was in michigan and here's how i can tell see all this corrosion that is aluminum aluminum pits it's typical you're gonna get corrosion in michigan it doesn't mean anything you're gonna also see the aluminum top of the engine it's corroded too that's just superficial corrosion now if it would have been in arizona with any corrosion off that's the only place it had been but it spent some time in michigan and that's what gave it corrosion no big deal but it's something that you look at you want to make sure you can see the strut towers are fine so it's just a superficial corrosion you're going to see from living in michigan for a while it's got dual cooling systems you can see it's got the nice pink coolant it's full it's not low those are the high electricity wires high voltage orange don't touch them leave them alone that's not something you want to mess with you can do stuff like change spark plugs when it wears out air filter stuff like that but don't mess with the high voltage system i think you got a great vehicle yeah it was probably bumped in the back and repainted almost any car that's a few years old these days is going to be hit somewhere americans drive like lunatics people are always running into the back of people but at least in this case the front wasn't run into and the front is where everything is everything electronic is there so the back getting hit in the trunk yeah no big deal the track's good nothing's particularly worn out and one good sign is it came with these yokohama tires and they're wearing perfectly fine you're looking at a used car that's got all brand new tires or two on one front of their all brand new make you think ah might be a problem they had to put new tires on to hide a problem it had especially if they're like two cheap chinese tires they about the cheapest ones you could these yokohamas he's a good tire shows that there's no problems no odd wear on himself you got a good car now you got to pay a lot these days you had to pay 30 something for this that's just the way it goes you got no choice with that but it checked out fine so he did get a good car so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell [Music] you

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 10min 23sec (623 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 15 2022