Hello to everyone!! hope my post would be very helpful to anybody who likes to work and mod their ravs especially to those who would like to maintain their precious ones,.
First of. since we bought our first suv, i've complained about the parking brake being too weak. my mom drives an 06 corolla ce and i have compared both brakes. At the first scheduled maintenance i told my service advisor about it. after picking it up, he told me that they cannot adjust it and the brakes are new and made up of ceramics and other stuff, you guys know how some service advisor be like if they are too lazy or to busy doing some other repairs other than adjusting brakes, well heck
me too! and after about one year later i decided to adjust it myself since i cannot find any posts here:
its relatively quite simple
First Take out the coin pocket/window adjuster (sorry i dont know the term and i'm calling it by the name of its purpose)
Update: Pictures can be found here:
http://www.rav4world.com/forums/members/albums/30206-ravaboy/console-disassembly-8481.html
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carefully lift the assembly, notice that wire harness underneath, unplug it
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you are going to see underneath the "parking" brake adjustment screws that hold the cable to the lever
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loosen the top nut that locks the bottom adjusting nut then adjust the lower nut to your desired setting, both are 10mm
i've done this while the lever is not engaged and i adjusted it to 5-7 clicks, the stock setting was like beyond 9 and i did not pulled it up further or i may end up with not parking brake at all, believe me i've seen it happen, but not on my rav4 on some friend's car.
now to remove your center console (if you still has the motivation and powa to do so)
First step this is the most critical part of the removal process!
Underneath the center console compartment remove the cover to reveal 2-10 mm nuts that hold the console to the body
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then pry the kick panels on the center console
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next are the side panels, i found an easy way to do it, grab on the bottom at the end then carefully pull it up, then pull towards the rear(note there are still clips on the front)
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next remove the gear selector cover, the ones that has the PRNDL on it, carefully pry it at both sides and lift it up, there would be wire harness underneath carefully unplug it
next remove the black "thing" with the 12v accessory plug (sorry dont know what it is called but hey! thats why we got pictures to look at! grab on top then carefully pull, there will be another harness underneath unplug it duh!!
next is the center console cup holder, it is secured by two screws then pry it upward
then unscrew the console remember the grey sidings that were removed earlier, on the posts will be two screws on both sides
then unplug the harness that goes inside for the aux and that extra 12v accessory plug, also the wire harness is http://rav4world.com/forums/posting.php
RAV4World - :: Post a new topicheld on the side inside the console, pry it out
when lifting or removing the whole console, raise or engage the parking brake.
pics of the center without the console notice the air bag sensor, i removed the 3-12mm nuts that hold it i dont know but i got curious that underneath there may have some rat or cockroach nest hiding that i did not know, now is the best time to detail and clean those hard to reach areas on your console and also on the carpet and some dirt that may have passed through your parking lever cover
as usuall assembly is just the opposite of the removal, just dont forget the screws and nuts of which ones goes where.
hope this post may help others, as like some posts helped me maintain/avoid potential problems that may arise taking care of our precious rides.
Console disassembly disassemble console remove console shift lever shift knob cupholder mirror control
First of. since we bought our first suv, i've complained about the parking brake being too weak. my mom drives an 06 corolla ce and i have compared both brakes. At the first scheduled maintenance i told my service advisor about it. after picking it up, he told me that they cannot adjust it and the brakes are new and made up of ceramics and other stuff, you guys know how some service advisor be like if they are too lazy or to busy doing some other repairs other than adjusting brakes, well heck
me too! and after about one year later i decided to adjust it myself since i cannot find any posts here:
its relatively quite simple
First Take out the coin pocket/window adjuster (sorry i dont know the term and i'm calling it by the name of its purpose)
Update: Pictures can be found here:
http://www.rav4world.com/forums/members/albums/30206-ravaboy/console-disassembly-8481.html
carefully lift the assembly, notice that wire harness underneath, unplug it
[/img]
you are going to see underneath the "parking" brake adjustment screws that hold the cable to the lever
loosen the top nut that locks the bottom adjusting nut then adjust the lower nut to your desired setting, both are 10mm
i've done this while the lever is not engaged and i adjusted it to 5-7 clicks, the stock setting was like beyond 9 and i did not pulled it up further or i may end up with not parking brake at all, believe me i've seen it happen, but not on my rav4 on some friend's car.
now to remove your center console (if you still has the motivation and powa to do so)
First step this is the most critical part of the removal process!
Underneath the center console compartment remove the cover to reveal 2-10 mm nuts that hold the console to the body
[/img]
then pry the kick panels on the center console
[/img]
next are the side panels, i found an easy way to do it, grab on the bottom at the end then carefully pull it up, then pull towards the rear(note there are still clips on the front)
[/img]
next remove the gear selector cover, the ones that has the PRNDL on it, carefully pry it at both sides and lift it up, there would be wire harness underneath carefully unplug it
next remove the black "thing" with the 12v accessory plug (sorry dont know what it is called but hey! thats why we got pictures to look at! grab on top then carefully pull, there will be another harness underneath unplug it duh!!
next is the center console cup holder, it is secured by two screws then pry it upward
then unscrew the console remember the grey sidings that were removed earlier, on the posts will be two screws on both sides
then unplug the harness that goes inside for the aux and that extra 12v accessory plug, also the wire harness is http://rav4world.com/forums/posting.php
RAV4World - :: Post a new topicheld on the side inside the console, pry it out
when lifting or removing the whole console, raise or engage the parking brake.
pics of the center without the console notice the air bag sensor, i removed the 3-12mm nuts that hold it i dont know but i got curious that underneath there may have some rat or cockroach nest hiding that i did not know, now is the best time to detail and clean those hard to reach areas on your console and also on the carpet and some dirt that may have passed through your parking lever cover
as usuall assembly is just the opposite of the removal, just dont forget the screws and nuts of which ones goes where.
hope this post may help others, as like some posts helped me maintain/avoid potential problems that may arise taking care of our precious rides.
Console disassembly disassemble console remove console shift lever shift knob cupholder mirror control