The line departure alert / steering assist buzzer is not working or not loud enough to be heard. occasionally when driving for hours on freeways i may get drowsy, so i bought the new rav4 and specifically chose a model with lda/sa hoping that it assists me. after driving over 1000 miles between the cities, i am completely disappointed with this feature. it supposed to alert me when the car drives over the lines with a buzzer and gentle nudge to the steering wheel. i cannot hear the buzzer and feel any action on the steering wheel. i went to the culver city toyota dealer two times in attempting to have this problem fixed. both times i have been told that the system works as designed. during a test drive with the master technician, with radio off, at speed less 50mph, so with the minimal road noise, i could not hear the buzzer. i do clearly hear the buzzer of the parking sonar or pre-collision warning. so this is at best useless feature, at worst it is a distraction when trying to make it work at a highway.
Since the car was purchased on 11/25/2018, the front brakes creak while on drive and the car pulls to the left. i took it to the dealership and they said nothing was wrong with the brakes. they asked that i wait untill 500 miles to look at the alignment. i took it in again for the brakes and the service manager sat in the car and he heard the brake noise. he ran it through tests and said nothing was found. he was going to wait for a toyota representative to come and then they would look at it before anything was done. it is now april and they still have not addressed the brake issue. they did adjust the alignment during the time, but it still pulls to the left. after the alignment, there was a sliding grinding noise on the left front brake. the noises occur when you come to a stop and release the brakes. both issues have been present since the car was purchased have not been resolved.
Tamara recall. vehicle constantly drifts to the right side. several attempts of fixing the issue have been made by the dealership and vehicle still continues to pull to the right. at this point the dealerships do not know how to fix the issue. no injuries have been sustained. the manufacturer has been notified. please further investigate this problem.