Toyota RAV4: Installing the tire
Remove any dirt or foreign matter from the wheel contact surface. If foreign matter is on the wheel contact surface, the wheel nuts may loosen while the vehicle is in motion, and the tire may come off the vehicle.
2 Install the tire and loosely tighten each wheel nut by hand by approximately the same amount.
Replacing a steel wheel with a steel wheel
Tighten the nuts until the tapered portion comes into loose contact with the disc wheel seat.
Replacing an aluminum wheel with a steel wheel
Tighten the nuts until the tapered portion comes into loose contact with the disc wheel seat.
Replacing an aluminum wheel with an aluminum wheel
Turn the nut washers until they come into contact with the disc wheel.
3 Lower the vehicle.
Type A
Type B
Type C
Firmly tighten each nut two or
three times in the order shown in
the illustration.
Tightening torque:
76 ft•lbf (103 N•m, 10.5 kgf•m)
5 Reinstall the wheel ornament.
16-inch wheel
17-inch and 18-inch wheels
Replacing a flat tire
Chock the tires. 2 Remove the wheel ornament using the wheel nut wrench as shown below. 16-inch wheel To protect the wheel ornament, place a rag between the wrench and the wheel ornament, ...Stowing the flat tire
1 Remove any dirt or foreign matter from the disc wheel seat and the wheel contact surface. Vehicles with aluminum wheels and a steel wheel for the spare: Remove the plastic rings from the wh ...See also:
Adjustable head restraints
Your vehicle is equipped with front row outboard head restraints that are
vertically adjustable.
WARNING: To minimize the risk of neck injury in the event of a
crash, the driver and passenger occu ...
Battery Replacement
Replace the battery if the REPLACE BATTERY IN REMOTE KEY message displays in
the DIC. See ЃgReplace Battery in Remote KeyЃh under Key and Lock Messages on page
5.29.
The battery is not recharge ...
M+S tires
At temperatures below 45 ‡(+7 †), use winter tires or all-season tires. Both
types of tire are identified by the M+S marking.
Only winter tires bearing the snowflake
symbol in addition to th ...