Toyota RAV4 2006–2012 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin ZF4_DEALER 12/3 · NHTSA communication 10093717 · issued Dec 3, 2015
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Power Train
component
2006–2012
model years
7
vehicle entries
Official summary
"dl: in our continuing efforts to help ensure the best in customer satisfaction, toyota is announcing a warranty enhancement program to extend the warranty coverage for rear differential coupling growl noise on 2006-2012 model year rav4 4wd vehicles. In some of these vehicles, toyota has received some reports that the vehicle may exhibit a growl type noise from the rear differential coupling when driving due to contamination of the front bearing. Although the rear differential assembly is covered by toyota s new vehicle limited powertrain warranty for 5 years or 60,000 miles (whichever occurs
Vehicles covered
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.