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Why is RAV4HV like a Older Gen2 Prius?

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Technical Discussion' started by wjtracy, Apr 4, 2021.

  1. wjtracy

    wjtracy Senior Member

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    Gasoline tank fill-up problem...could not fill-it up full...but the good news Toyota agreed to fix the RAV4's, if so requested by the owners..So we just got our RAV4 fixed by Toyota (new tank/sender) and now we in the 520 miles range on fill-up.

    Many of us with 2019 and 2020 RAV4HV's could not fill up the gaso tank. I swear it felt just like the older Gen2 we traded in, where you could only get 6 gals per fill-up, except the Rav4 has a bigger tank so we could get 9.7 gals in there for about 390 mile range, vs. 560 miles advertised range.

    Toyota agreed there was a problem with some RAV4's which they said was apparently caused by a small design change to slightly different tank shape.

    So as far as older Gen2's, perhaps a small change in shape of flexible tanks used in the USA could cause the fill-up problems some of us saw..
     
  2. bisco

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    our son had his fixed a couple weeks ago, very happy. dealership couldn't tell him what the fix was (n)