4wd mystery...
I went to a car lot today to look at a 1997 2 door, 5-speed RAV4 advertised as a 4wd. The first thing I noticed inside, however, is that there was no center differential locking switch. I asked the salesman if he was sure that it was a 4wd and he said that when he ran the vin# it came up as such. When I test drove it I accelerated quickly from a stop light with gravel on the road. Both my friend (who was riding with me) and I noticed that one of the rear wheels seemed to spin on the gravel briefly, which would seemingly be evidence of 4wd. Nevertheless, from the reading I have done on this forum it appears that all manual transmission 4-wheel drives from 1997 should have a center differential locking switch. Anyone have information or a hypothesis? How can I tell for sure? Thanks!
Update: After reading some of the responses from a similar post two days ago (yes, I know... I should have searched this site more thoroughly prior to starting a new thread) I can see that I really just need to go back to the lot and crawl underneath the car to see if there is a rear driveshaft. BTW... The vin# is JT3XP10V4V0008366