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.