Toyota Tercel Pricing and Specs

There’s a huge range of towing limits for the RAV4 thanks to the sheer number of model variants. In simple terms, the non-hybrid two-wheel-drive versions can tow a braked trailer of 800kg while a two-wheel-drive hybrid RAV4 can only cope with 480kg. Which means that if you want a RAV4 for towing, you’re best to look at any of the all-wheel-drive versions (hybrid or non-hybrid) which have a braked towing limit of 1500kg.

Of course, those figures are for braked trailers, while your question was for a trailer with no braking of its own. In that case, the two-wheel-drive RAV4’s limit stays at 480kg, while the all-wheel-drive’s limit falls to 750kg.

Gross Combined Mass (the total weight of the vehicle, the trailer and anything being carried including passengers, fuel, luggage and accessories) meantime, is harder to find and you need to resort to the owner’s manual (which is a problem if you haven’t bought the car yet). In any case, the two-wheel-drive RAV4’s GCM is 2665kg, while the all-wheel-drive’s GCM is 3730kg.

I’m unsure why this last piece of the puzzle is so difficult to find, but information like this should be more readily available as it’s a critical safety issue and something that many owners inadvertently get wrong with serious legal and insurance ramifications.

The space-saver from a non-hybrid Corolla should fit your car, provided it’s from a model from the same generation of Corolla. Don’t forget, though, you’ll also need the correct jack and wheel brace to change a tyre by the side of the road.

The bigger question perhaps, is where you’d store the spare tyre and tools on a Corolla Hybrid. The reason the hybrid model doesn’t have a spare tyre in the first place is that the hybrid’s batteries take up an awful lot of space under the boot floor, where the tyre would otherwise live. Meantime, having a tyre and tools rattling around loose in the hatch area is not only an inconvenience but, in a crash, could be potentially lethal.

On this series of LandCruiser, the fuse box you need to access is behind a plastic panel just to the side of the steering column, low down on the lower edge of the dashboard. Once you’ve removed the cover, there should be a legend printed on the inside of it that tells you which fuse is which. The fuse you need to check is fuse number 2 which controls all those circuits as well as the number-plate light, the glovebox light and the car’s clock. The replacement fuse you need is a 15Amp of the blade type.

If the fuse continues to blow, then you need to start looking for a short-circuit or other wiring problem that is forcing the fuse to blow to protect the vehicle’s wiring.