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Thanks James, that is indeed my dealership so it's good to know I'm not the first. My question for you is, does a 'rebuild' actually result in a fixed car?! And what exactly are they rebuilding - modified pistons or rings or both or something else?

HI everyone, I have a late '13 RAV4 diesel, and it seems I might be having the same issue. I've had the car less than a year so obviously I don't know its entire history. All I do know is right before its service back in Jan this year (my first service since the car's been mine) the low oil warning came on. After mentioning this at the service, the Toyota service guy set up a starting point baseline for measuring oil consumption. Fast forward 6 months to today, the car is now obviously due for another service, and the low oil warning came back on again today! The car has done 6500 kms since the last service, with about a 50:50 ratio of highway driving to suburban pootling. Since I am brand new to this issue, I have no idea whether this sort of consumption is good, bad, indifferent or terrible as compared to other RAV4s having similar problems - what do you guys think? I guess it depends on how much oil they put in at the last service. One would like to presume that given they were setting up a baseline for measuring consumption they would have put in exactly the right amount to top it up, as opposed to any overfilling shenanigans... By complete coincidence another diesel rav4 owner came up to me in a carpark only just a few days ago, making me aware of this as a broader RAV4 issue for the first time. I'm wondering now if he might be active on this forum - if so, can you make yourself known to me? ['twas just a few days ago in the Jamison Centre carpark in Canberra] As I'm about to have this car serviced again and deliver the news that the oil warning has come back on again after 6500kms, anybody want to give me any advice as to how I should approach this matter with the Toyota dealership? What line of tack to take? Much appreciated!

Geez - $800 sounds like a bargain! I asked my dealer a couple of months ago how much for supply only of the centre console parts; and was told $539.25 for the lid and $961.07 for the box... Not including GST! Sonia - can I ask where your dealer is?

Anybody got any tips/tricks for removing the stock head unit out of the Rukus? I'm about to replace it with the Hong Kong Jimmy ebay special that I took out of my last car (RAV4) and would be interested to know if there's anything sneaky or clever to make things easier... Thanks!

Hi everyone, Bought a Rukus today - an ex-demo 2011 model in Amazon (& funny black stripes) with only 10,000kms on the clock. Is just a Build 1, but the only thing that disappoints initially is the low-lying, open-topped excuse of a centre console... My initial research online seems to suggest that there are better (taller, closeable, sliding arm-rest) variants available. I think perhaps it comes with the Build 3, maybe the Build 2 as well? And maybe on the same year Scion xB? Anybody have any suggestions what to upgrade to, and where to get it? Many thanks! - Haze.