Hey there...
I know this is probably an often-asked question, buried in a FAQ somewhere, but I couldn't dig up an answer so I thought I'd post here.
About 6 months ago I bought a manual transmission 2002 with a 4WD badge on the back, and I've been wondering since I got it, how does the 4WD work? Without any kind of button/switch/lever in the cockpit to switch it to 4WD, it must be full-time. But full-time 4WD doesn't really exist, because to have 4 evenly powered wheels at once kills the handling. So it must be one of those "shifting the power from the wheels that slip to the wheels that grip" all-wheel-drive systems.
But then again, many "all-wheel-drive" systems aren't really "all-wheel". My car before this was a Subaru Outback, and one day I got hung up on a snowbank and watched as the 2 wheels in the air (diagonally opposite) spun in the air while the wheels still on the ground did nothing...turns out their version of all wheel means "one front wheel and the opposite rear wheel", which they should at best call "all axle drive".
So anyway, how does the power-to-the-wheels system work on the Rav4?
I know this is probably an often-asked question, buried in a FAQ somewhere, but I couldn't dig up an answer so I thought I'd post here.
About 6 months ago I bought a manual transmission 2002 with a 4WD badge on the back, and I've been wondering since I got it, how does the 4WD work? Without any kind of button/switch/lever in the cockpit to switch it to 4WD, it must be full-time. But full-time 4WD doesn't really exist, because to have 4 evenly powered wheels at once kills the handling. So it must be one of those "shifting the power from the wheels that slip to the wheels that grip" all-wheel-drive systems.
But then again, many "all-wheel-drive" systems aren't really "all-wheel". My car before this was a Subaru Outback, and one day I got hung up on a snowbank and watched as the 2 wheels in the air (diagonally opposite) spun in the air while the wheels still on the ground did nothing...turns out their version of all wheel means "one front wheel and the opposite rear wheel", which they should at best call "all axle drive".
So anyway, how does the power-to-the-wheels system work on the Rav4?
