Toyota RAV4 2013–2015 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin T-SB-0023-15-Rev · NHTSA communication 10152164 · issued Aug 31, 2017
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Power Train
component
2013–2015
model years
3
vehicle entries
Official summary
TSB: REVISION NOTICE August 31, 2017 Rev1: ? Applicability has been updated to include 2015 model year RAV4 vehicles. ? Production Change Information has been added. ? The Parts Information section has been updated. Any previous printed versions of this bulletin should be discarded. Some 2013 ? 2015 model year RAV4 vehicles may exhibit a brief shudder intermittently while driving under light loads between approximately 25 and 50 mph. The torque converter and Engine Control Module/ECM (SAE term: Powertrain Control Module/PCM) logic have been modified to reduce the possibility of this condition
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.