So I have been using this wrong. When it rains a little all the oil raises to the surface and road becomes slippery mostly on curvy turns that are not quite 90 degrees. My 5th Gen sr5 losses traction. I have been bothered by this for sometime now. Then I found this video. I guess I should have been turning it off to to it on. On the dash it shows Auto LSD and the car 🚗 icon with off. So that made it all confusing. Is it on? Is it off? Now I know.
Can someone please clear up this confusion for me. I have a 2014 4runner Limited. when should i use Auto LSD,Trac Off,and that Limited Slip Icon ? I use my 4runner to commute to work and home and some light errands around new york city...sometimes it will rain during day or night.what traction system should I be using during those conditions? Thanks for your help
Your Limited Trim 4Runner is a Full Time 4x4 , similar to an AWD vehicle. For where you live and how you use your vehicle, you don't need to do anything living in NYC. Read your owners manual.
I have the Auto SLD in my 2008 Rav4, and it doesn't help anything. I couldn't get over a 10% grass incline. Once the Auto LSD is off the wheel without traction was spinning fast but when I turned the Auto LSD on, it reduced the speed but applying the break no torque was transferred to the opposite wheel with traction, that is what the auto LSD suppose to do, but in Toyota its doesn't function as its promised. I did this test with my Rav4 many times and showed it to my friends that Toyota rav4's traction control is not good as it is in other vehicles. However, I am not sure how good they have improved it in the 2014 4runner, I don't judge and leave the element of the doubt.
It's cause the "Auto LSD" uses the brakes... Yeah I was kinda disappointed to find out about that on my Tacoma Prerunner. I figured it was a Limited Slip DIFFERENTIAL that actually puts power to the other wheel... But nope, if a wheel starts spinning it applies the brakes to the other wheel to get traction back. This works really well on slick roads and on snow/ice on roads, but for off roading not so well. I've been through two ice storms with my Tacoma, and the auto LSD did help a lot, didn't lose traction except for fishtailing during a turn (still didn't lose control). A little disappointing tho, and it will make the brakes wear faster. Still, I'd rather have that than not have any form of traction control at all.
Well I express my experience with my rav4. my family and I almost died in that car 2 years ago. In quarter of an inch snow the car started to spin, the traction controlled kicked in but was useless, almost fell of a cliff, thanks for a big rock on the side road that stopped us. By the way my tires were newly changed that time and were all season. After that incident I had to change the car.
for some reason the rav4 traction doesnt work well/at all. the 4runner was awesome. rav4 (AWD model!!) got stuck easy in snow, only spun 1 tire. AWD my azz
