You'll have to program your wife to push the switch every to she starts it.

 

Is there any way to tape the button down?

 

Maybe this has been discussed but perhaps there is an option within techstream that would allow the default setting to be set to sport mode?

 

It should go to normal mode at startup if left in sport mode at shut down. I have run tech stream on my 2013 and did not see any option for that.

 

It should go to normal mode at startup if left in sport mode at shut down.

This, too. Our always defaults to normal mode when turning it off and back on. Both ECO and Sport modes will be disengaged until deliberately turned back on.

 

Is the vehicle actually going into dedicated ECO mode? As in throttle response and transmission shifting being limited to increase fuel economy? Same as when the ECO button is activated?

Or does the ECO light illuminate when the engine is not working hard during normal driving,such as when idling, coasting or cruising at a constant speed? And then turn off while accelerating, working up a grade, etc?

Our Rav does the latter. In normal driving mode, the ECO light while turn on and off as the needs of the engine decrease and increase. Otherwise it drives and operates normally. I just assumed this was normal, it's not like it changes anything about the vehicle's performance. Only when we actually push the ECO button to put it into ECO mode is throttle response and transmission shifting noticeably muted.

If your Rav is actually defaulting to true ECO mode on it's own, that is something I would suggest visiting your dealer for.

 

Dehill.. ask your wife if she is looking at the green "ECO" light on the left of the instrument cluster, or is it that she has the "ECO MODE" indicator on in the right side of the cluster.

If it's the ECO on the left, that is your RAV telling her that she is driving in a very fuel efficient manner.
However, if it's the ECO MODE on the right, then that is a selected drive mode she has activated by pressing the button down in front of the gear shifter.

If the ECO MODE or SPORT MODE are lit (only one can be at a time), then simply press the appropriate button to disengage and revert back to a NORMAL driving mode.

 

Thank you all for your answers.


However; my wife just wishes that she could push the sport button and that it would stay there and not revert to eco every time she turns the RAV off.


It doesn't seem like too much to ask from Toyota.

 

..but it reverts back to the NORMAL mode, not ECO MODE, when she restarts the vehicle..

 

^ Unfortunately Toyota doesn't let you do that, probably because it may hurt their EPA rating, but that's just a guess. Press ECO mode to turn ECO mode off, this will be normal mode. Same story with sport mode, pressing sport again will put the car back into normal mode. Car should start back up in normal mode (neither eco or sport light will be on) the next time you start the car.

 

As the attached schematic indicates, the SPORT switch is simply a momentary switch that grounds pin 9 of the engine ECM when it is depressed.
If you really, really, really wanted to always be in SPORT mode, you could wire up a relay's coil to the Start signal, and gnd, and have the relay's contacts ground pin 9 whenever the vehicle is started. This momentary ground would simulate pressing the SPORT pushbutton, and the vehicle would go into SPORT mode.
View attachment SPORT.pdf

 

As the attached schematic indicates, the SPORT switch is simply a momentary switch that grounds pin 9 of the engine ECM when it is depressed.
If you really, really, really wanted to always be in SPORT mode, you could wire up a relay's coil to the Start signal, and gnd, and have the relay's contacts ground pin 9 whenever the vehicle is started. This momentary ground would simulate pressing the SPORT pushbutton, and the vehicle would go into SPORT mode.
View attachment 36394

You could do the same thing much simpler using only a capacitor and resistor.

 

Where did you get that wiring diagram, and can you find one for automatic lights? I have an XLE with Nav that has the light sensor already, would love to wire auto lights to it!

 

Headlight schematic:
http://www.rav4world.com/forums/att...ents/4-4-exterior/34913d1416440189-drls-not-series-maybe-use-leds-headlight.pdf

Wiring diagrams, etc come from here:
https://techinfo.toyota.com/techInfoPortal/appmanager/t3/ti

 

Is the ECO button physically different than the Sport button? If so couldn't you just swap leads?

 

Uummm, no. It's not the button itself that makes Eco stay on on restart. It's the ecu.
All you would accomplish by switching the wires is that hitting Eco would put you in sport mode and hitting sport mode would put you in Eco.

 

Looks like it continues onto the next page and I don't have a subscription. Could you post the other page(s). This diagram doesn't seem to show the auto light control part of the circuit, only the stalk switch.

 

The next page is this:

http://www.rav4world.com/forums/att...hments/4-4-exterior/34057d1414963910-2013-rav4-fog-lights-kit-help-foglight.pdf

If you want the whole section, I can email it to you.