Toyota has issued a recall for greater than 1.8 million RAV4 SUVs from mannequin years 2013 via 2018 as a result of a loosely secured battery may set off a hearth throughout sharp maneuvers.
Toyota tells the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA) the issue doesn’t happen with the automobiles’ authentic batteries. However the automobiles are sufficiently old that almost all prospects may have changed the battery by now. The meeting that holds the battery in place could not absolutely safe each Toyota-approved substitute battery.
Some substitute batteries “have a smaller prime case dimension in comparison with the general dimension of the battery.” The holding meeting may permit these to maneuver “throughout driving that produces excessive ranges of lateral G-force,” reminiscent of a sudden flip. If the battery strikes such that its optimistic terminal contacts the hold-down clamp, “a brief circuit may happen, producing warmth.”
The corporate says its “greatest engineering judgment is that there are twenty-two Toyota Area Technical Stories and 0 guarantee claims” within the U.S. associated to the issue.
To repair it, sellers will substitute the battery tray, the hold-down meeting, and the optimistic terminal clamp with improved designs that ought to maintain each accepted battery securely.
Automakers recall many automobiles to repair security defects, generally greater than as soon as. Whereas automakers attempt to attain each proprietor to ask them to deliver the car in for restore, they hardly ever attain all of them. Thousands and thousands of automobiles on American roads want free recall repairs. To search out out in case your automotive is one in every of them, test the straightforward VIN instrument at our recall middle.
