Ok everyone..... This will be our last update.
The last update mentioned CV shakes, which we are going to be adding subframe spacers to eliminate that. As anything above 2inches it is recommended to keep the cv axles as close to spec as possible. Which is what I was told by Toyota when the rav was taken to get looked at.
Well in November we went out to Utah for work and off roading. We were on a service road, hit a pothole & finally heard that noise everyone talks about. It was the loudest bang I've ever heard coming from the lift kit. After babying it & coming back home every bump we hit we would hear it. Few weeks later we were running errands around the city, hit a pothole & the sound stopped. Almost like it pop itself back into place. Come January we have a new noise coming from we thought were the coils. Every time we would pull into a parking spot or pull out (brakes or not) its making what sounds like knocking noise. Even at traffic lights when the light turns green and we hit the gas. Almost like the coils are trying to settle or hitting the strut. As someone who doesn't drive much for work (6 miles to be exact) & then minor off roading on the weekends this is super concerning.
We were already in contact with a few people at Iron Man by this point, but the responses were few and far in-between with no solution (at least not mentioned to us from them). We had updated them with every issue along the way. At this point we have paid Toyota to look at the rav twice, we had paid our mechanic twice to look at it, got the alignment they suggested & paid to get the rav weighed at a truck stop like they wanted.
So, after my last email on 4/4/24 with no response, again, I'm going to be changing the kit. I'm worried it is now damaging the rav4 and I can't afford we keep having it looked at with no help. Especially when the kit comes with a 4-year warranty and it's been MAYBE a year since install and MAYBE 7,000 miles on it. I'm going to be adding the Subframe Spacers that were mentioned and going with the Northwoods Performance lift kit while keeping the iron man struts as I've never had an issue with those.
I want to take a moment to say sorry to all of you.. I know you were wanting an update way sooner, but I was holding out hoping Iron Man would give me a solution we could do that i could report back with. This is all super disappointing as we RELY on our lift kits to preform to what they promise. Epically when you're in the middle of nowhere. I've spent COUNTLESS hours in this Rav4 over the past 3 years and all these new noises came from the kit after installing it. We also had the Eibach coils on with a heaver setup & no issues. Tried to keep this as positive as possible but all we can do at this point is share our experience.
Trying to make an effort to check this more but if anyone has any questions, please feel free to reach out on Instagram as we are on there more often!
