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Hi Ceeber, my Rav now has 126,000 k's on the clock, i have really noticed everything noisy when it hit about 100,000 k's, although the diff whine was there in a mild form when i bought the car at 58,00 k's, Sometimes on smooth bitumen it sounds like a "Jumbo 747" it has a deep hum going through the whole car, lol By the way i haven't mentioned this here before, but my Steering Rack sounds like a jack hammer when under brakes that's another $700 odd dollars. :( I should have bought a Nissan or a Hyundai I'm glad my tyres should be OK as you said. :)

Thanks Ceeber, your experience in this is valuable to me, (SRD toyota dealer)? when i get the time i will print out all these replies and take them with me to Toyota and see if i can get some honesty,... you know as ****** off as i am, i still don't mind paying if i can get it right, I just don't want them to skin me alive with price, I will carefully stick it up them, with now the bit of experience I have thanks to this forum and the people on it. The point is I have many a grinding noise's coming out from my front end its embarrassing,.. My Wife's 2002 Commodore Monaro is sooo much nicer to drive then my bloody "brand name" TOYOTA, they are supposed to be so good yet a much older Commodore is quieter to drive by far, nothing whines in the Holden, (interior is falling apart though). I dont know what a SRD dealer is but i will ask our Toyota here in Townsville and see if they are or not. By the way, my NEW tyres I bought recently are "Good Year Efficient Grip" i dont know if these tyres are noisey or not, but my noises do sound like bearings and grinding gears i feel. What Tyres would you recommend for less noise Ceeber ? I keep thinking New Diff Gears and Bearings, and both Front Wheel Bearings may fix it. just got to find someone that will do the job proper without charging the earth.

Hi Ceeber, I read your story with great interest, i would appreciate if you could help be a bit, my problem is that 3 years ago i bought an December 2008 Rav SX6 from a private seller,...its a good car but i have grown to hate it through recent noises,..when i first bought it i noticed what i thought was a diff whine, but at the time i thought it did not sound too intrusive, so i bought the car anyway, i thought it may have just been a standard thing. bought it for $25k, it had 58,000 km on the clock, the previous owners had for a full 3 years, so no warranty left. its hard to judge noises over a period of 3 years but when i drive the car now it sounds like a piece of crap,...I am quite certain that not only the diff noise has got a lot louder, but it now sounds like wheel bearings are noisy and maybe diff bearings as well.. i am quite sure my auto transmission is quiet and working well. I hear at lease 2 or maybe 3 different noises up the front, it sounds like a piece of crap. I think i will have to take the expensive plunge of replacing the front wheel bearings,..but can you help me with the diff side of things, Would I be correct in saying that to get the diff right you would have to do the crown wheel and pinion, and also the bearings as well. or is there another area that i may be have missing? Appreciate yours or anyone else's comments. PS I may as well fix it because to sell it as is, it would be worth nothing.