Seat memory is on Limited.

 

XLE Premium Grade Weather Package includes: - Heated leather-trimmed steering wheel - Heated front seats - 8-way power-adjustable driver’s seat with two-position memory function and lumbar support - Rain-sensing variable intermittent windshield wipers with de-icer function

Seat memory is standard on the Limited. Available on other trims as part of a package.

 

Only my opinion but why buy something that you are going to be dissatisfied with every time you want to use one of those features.

I have a loaded limited and I use every one of those features on average hundreds of times a year. When my wife was looking I made sure she had the same features even though I drive hers only a few times a year. But when I do and I want/need one of those features...I really really want them.

 

Only my opinion but why buy something that you are going to be dissatisfied with every time you want to use one of those features.

Life is too short to live with regrets every day..

 

Wait for what you want. You dont want to regret buying a 35k car.

 

As far as adding those features after the car has been built, just about anything is possible, but I'm confident in guessing that, if they could be added, the cost of doing so would be prohibitive. I'd guess that adding such features after the car has been built would increase your total cost to a level that was quite a few thousand dollars more than would be the cost of just getting a fully-equipped RAV4 Limited Hybrid.

 

I think you would first need to know how much of the existing wire harness has what you need.
Ideally you want heated seats. That would needing wiring from the main harness to a control module and adding the heating elements. The main harness may already have the empty plug for a switch to turn on/off the heating element.
If you could source the bit of wiring you need, the switch, and the heating element it is possible (I'm guessing).

I think adding memory seats would be a little more involved. Obviously the door switches. I assume you have electric motors. I don't know what retains the memory though. If that is already built in, then maybe it is possible to wire in the door switches for memory positions.

Regardless, sounds like it will take a bit of effort. I don't know if that is something your local Toyota dealership service center will be willing to take on.
Of everything included in the package, the heated seats seems like the most likely update as it's just the element and the wire to enable it (so long as the master harness has everything else.
The other options sound like they require many parts.
Obviously the window defroster is out of the question.
Rain sensing wipers requires the sensor.

 

Hi all,

I'm a soon to be RAV4 Hybrid owner who is impatiently awaiting the arrival from Japan. I've been on a waiting list for a while and someone else's deal fell through so I was able to jump on a blizzard pearl XLE premium. That said, the only thing it's missing that I wanted is the XLE weather package. Has anyone had success having this installed after the factory? I know some things can be done at the port or SET. I've done a bunch of googling and got mixed results, so I thought I might find someone with firsthand experience here. The main things I want are the seat memory buttons & heated seats. Any experience or advice is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Christy

I have the package now, and also had it in my previous XLE premium and love every feature, but boy that seems like a lot work and cost. Only you can decide what’s best for you.

 

Hi all,

I'm a soon to be RAV4 Hybrid owner who is impatiently awaiting the arrival from Japan. I've been on a waiting list for a while and someone else's deal fell through so I was able to jump on a blizzard pearl XLE premium. That said, the only thing it's missing that I wanted is the XLE weather package. Has anyone had success having this installed after the factory? I know some things can be done at the port or SET. I've done a bunch of googling and got mixed results, so I thought I might find someone with firsthand experience here. The main things I want are the seat memory buttons & heated seats. Any experience or advice is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Christy

After reading several time I'm still confused.
Are you awaiting the RAV4 because you are under contract and it is not yet delivered or is it offered to you to make a decision if you want it or not?

 

I'm under contract and awaiting delivery. It was more important to me to get a 22 XLE Premium in my preferred color combo than to have the weather package. I know the MSRP will go up for 23 for the same vehicle, so I jumped on this 22. Someone else's deal just happened to fall through. The seat heaters & memory are the only two aspects of the weather package that I think might be useful to me, but I don't have those things now and don't have to have them. I was just wondering if there's a way to add the package after the fact - like maybe the wiring was there already from the factory and I just had to add some switches, sensors, etc. It sounds like this isn't doable though - or if it is, it would be way too much trouble & money - but I'm not heartbroken about it. Thanks to all who responded!

 

Have you asked your dealer? I know I’ve seen others say their dealer will be adding heated seats, maybe ~$200-300 per seat, before they pick up.

 

I will ask about this, thanks for the suggestion!

 

I would encourage you to weigh the pro/con.
Will you regret either decision, waiting a long time to get the color and heated seats vs owning the car that you didn't originally choose.

If you don't have heated seats to miss, that may make it an easier decision.
It may be nicer to have with the leather seat than in a cloth seat, I assume it's leather in your case (Toyota leather). If you see cool temps, not cold, probably not worth it. It isn't for me to say what value it has though.

It's a big decision and a lot of money. You probably want the purchase to be the right purchase. Either of them could be the right one of course.
Look at the build sheet vs the Toyota web site to see if you are getting everything you are supposed to, like does it included Navigation and XM. Does it have the adaptive lights (that was being removed from the end of year builds for vehicles that were supposed to have it). If you want something, make sure it is included so you don't find out later that "How do I turn on" something that wasn't included due to product availability.

Good luck! Hope it works out perfectly in the end.

 

I would encourage you to weigh the pro/con.
Will you regret either decision, waiting a long time to get the color and heated seats vs owning the car that you didn't originally choose.

If you don't have heated seats to miss, that may make it an easier decision.
It may be nicer to have with the leather seat than in a cloth seat, I assume it's leather in your case (Toyota leather). If you see cool temps, not cold, probably not worth it. It isn't for me to say what value it has though.

It's a big decision and a lot of money. You probably want the purchase to be the right purchase. Either of them could be the right one of course.
Look at the build sheet vs the Toyota web site to see if you are getting everything you are supposed to, like does it included Navigation and XM. Does it have the adaptive lights (that was being removed from the end of year builds for vehicles that were supposed to have it). If you want something, make sure it is included so you don't find out later that "How do I turn on" something that wasn't included due to product availability.

Good luck! Hope it works out perfectly in the end.

I would encourage you to weigh the pro/con.
Will you regret either decision, waiting a long time to get the color and heated seats vs owning the car that you didn't originally choose.

If you don't have heated seats to miss, that may make it an easier decision.
It may be nicer to have with the leather seat than in a cloth seat, I assume it's leather in your case (Toyota leather). If you see cool temps, not cold, probably not worth it. It isn't for me to say what value it has though.

It's a big decision and a lot of money. You probably want the purchase to be the right purchase. Either of them could be the right one of course.
Look at the build sheet vs the Toyota web site to see if you are getting everything you are supposed to, like does it included Navigation and XM. Does it have the adaptive lights (that was being removed from the end of year builds for vehicles that were supposed to have it). If you want something, make sure it is included so you don't find out later that "How do I turn on" something that wasn't included due to product availability.

Good luck! Hope it works out perfectly in the end.

While I was dealing with the "allocation" process, I would ask the dealer to send the Vspec for the vehicles that I would consider out of that allocation. I would then go on the Toyota web site and build that vehicle to the Vspec sheet. This sure helped me to look at everything I was getting(and not getting) for that particular vehicle.

 

The same thing happened to us in July with the very same model. We are going to wait and see how the winter travel goes. I am not convinced that the softex might not be comfortable enough, but if it is not we will add the heated seats. The other options in the "weather" package are nice, but the heated seats is the only thing that would really be missed if that softex is too cold. The allocation process that Toyota (Gulf States) used for selling cars was really a "bummer."

 

@Base Model:

I think you are misusing the quote feature. You somehow quoted a user and put your words in their mouth. haha