2002 TOYOTA RAV4 spare tire

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Your Toyota is equipped with a limitedslip
center differential (transfer). If one wheel
begins to spin, the limitedslip center dif-
ferential (transfer) is designed to aid trac-
tion by automatically transmitting driving
force to the wheels on the other drive
axle. It transmits driving force to the front
wheels if a rear wheel spins, and to the
rear wheels if a front wheel spins.
On some models—
Your Toyota is also equipped with a lim-
itedslip rear differential. If one rear wheel
begins to spin, the limitedslip rear differ-
ential is designed to aid traction by auto-
matically transmitting driving force to the
other rear wheel. If you are not sure
whether your vehicle is equipped with one,
you can ask your Toyota dealer.
CAUTION
Do not start or run the engine while
your vehicle is supported by a jack.
The vehicle could be driven off the
jack and could pose a danger or re-
sult in serious injury.
NOTICE
Use only a spare tire of the same
brand, size, construction and load ca-
pacity as the original tires on your
Toyota because damage to the lim-
itedslip differential could possibly
occur with another tire type.
Under the right front seat
Top left of the instrument panel
Limitedslip differential
(fourwheel drive models)Your Toyota’s identification—
—Vehicle identification
number

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NOTICE
Do not continue driving with a de-
flated tire. Driving even a short dis-
tance can damage a tire and wheel
beyond repair.
—Required tools and spare
tire

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1. Get the required tools and sparetire.
Tool bag (in the right side box of lug-
gage compartment)
Jack (under the right front seat)
Spare tire (on the back door)
To prepare yourself for an emergency, you
should fam iliarize yourself with the use of
the jack, each of the tools and their stor-
age locations.
To remove the jack, move the seat to the
rearmost position and turn the jack joint
by hand.
To remove: Turn the joint in direction 1
until the jack is free.
To store: Turn the joint in direction 2 until
the jack is firmly secured to prevent it
flying forward during a collision or s udden
braking.
Clearances
Full spare tire cover
Half spare tire cover

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To remove the spare tire on the back
door:1. Remove the spare tire cover.
Full spare tire cover—Unhook the latch
handle which is on the bottom of the cov-
er. Pull up the cover by grasping the
clearances on both sides between the
cover and latch handle base.
Half spare tire cover—Pry off the center
cover and loose the nut with wheel nut
wrench, then remove the spare tire cover.
2. Turn the holddown nuts counterclock- wise with the wheel nut wrench and
remove them.
When storing the spare tire, put it in place
and secure it to prevent it from flying
forward during a collision or s udden brak-
ing.2. Block the wheel diagonally opposite the flat tire to keep the vehicle from
rolling when it is j acked up.
When blocking the wheel, place a wheel
block from the front for the front wheels
or from the rear for the rear wheels.
—Blocking the wheel

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3. Loosen all the wheel nuts.
Always loosen the wheel nuts before rais-
ing the vehicle.
Turn the wheel nuts counterclockwise to
loosen. To get maximum leverage, fit the
wrench to the nut so that the handle is
on the right side, as shown above. Grab
the wrench near the end of the handle
and pull up on the handle. Be careful that
the wrench does not slip off the nut.
Do not remove the nuts yet—just unscrew
them about onehalf turn.4. Position the jack at the following jack points.
1 Front suspension cross member rear mounting
2 Rear suspension arm
Make sure the jack is positioned on a
level and solid place.5. After making sure that no one is in the vehicle, raise it high enough so
that the spare tire can be installed.
Remember you will need more ground
clearance when putting on the spare tire
than when removing the flat tire.
To raise the vehicle, insert the jack handle
into the jack (it is a loose fit) and turn it
clockwise. As the jack touches the vehicle
and begins to lift, doublecheck that it is
properly positioned.
—Loosening wheel nuts —Positioning the jack—Raising your vehicle

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CAUTION
Never get under the vehicle when the
vehicle is supported by the jack
alone.
6. Remove the wheel nuts and changetires.
Lift the flat tire straight off and put it
aside.
Roll the spare wheel into position and
align the holes in the wheel with the bolts.
Then lift up the wheel and get at least the
top bolt started through its hole. Wiggle
the tire and press it back over the other
bolts.Before putting on wheels, remove any cor-
rosion on the mounting surfaces with a
wire brush or such. Installation of wheels
without good metaltometal contact at the
mounting surface can cause wheel nuts to
loosen and eventually cause a wheel to
come off while driving. Therefore after the
first 1600 km (1000 miles), check to see
that the wheel nuts are tight.
—Changing wheels

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9. Install the flat tire and spare tirecover on the back door.
CAUTION
Make sure flat tire and spare tire cov-
er are securely in place in their stor-
age location to reduce the possibility
of personal injury during a collision
or sudden braking.
Install the full spare tire cover by the
following procedure:
Guides
1. Insert the hooks under the guides tothe upper slots and lower the cover.
—Stowing flat tire

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2. Remove the filter case from the filteroutlet as shown in the illustration.3. Remove the filter from the filtercase.
4. Inspect the filter on the surface.
If it is dirty, it should be replaced.
INFORMATION
The air filter should be installed prop-
erly in position. The use of air condi-
tioning with the air filter removed
may cause deteriorated dustproof per-
formance and then affect air condi-
tioning performance.
Keep your tire pressures at the proper
level.
The recommended cold tire pressures, tire
size and the vehicle capacity weight are
given on page 254 in Section 8. They are
also on the tire pressure label as shown.
You should check the tire pressures every
two weeks, or at least once a month. And
do not forget the spare!
Checking tire pressure