Is transmission and transaxle the same thing for rav4

This may be a stupid question, but are driveshafts and transmissions interchangeable? Am I doing them right?

I would ask if they are flushed or drained and filled …… There is a difference. It looks like they charged you 12kg, but usually drain and fill only uses 3-6kg.

They said it was a flush, which I asked about.

Unless you burned your transmission fluid, you wasted a lot of money!

Yes, driveshafts on AWD or FWD vehicles = transmissions. And you should NEVER flush the transmission, it will ruin it. A standard gravity drain and refill should be done every 30,000-50,000 miles.

You are wrong dude, transmissions are different.

You obviously haven’t maintained these vehicles properly. Let me educate you. To change transmission fluid. Transmission gear oil. And differential fluid. So the transmission is a separate mechanical entity. You’d know this if you’d ever changed your transmission fluid, which you obviously haven’t.

A driveshaft is a transmission that incorporates the differential into the same unit. While technically different, your car either has one or the other, so if you’re using the “wrong” terminology, you’re not talking about a different part.

It is different. Driveshafts use transmission oil. Transmissions use transmission fluid. And the differential.

But according to your receipt, they should not be using 12 quarts of transmission fluid. That doesn’t make sense.

How often does the guy who drives 10,000 miles a month change his transmission fluid?

Go back and read his post, and if you go back a few entries, you’ll see that.

While I would bet that Toyota’s CVT is the strongest, it’s still a CVT.

It’s different from a traditional CVT in that it uses a planetary gear system and integrates two electric motors.

I know what I’m going to look at when I have time.

Are hybrid transmissions the same as or different from internal combustion engine transmissions?

Hybrids use ecvt transmissions.

There is no hydraulic fluid. It has hydraulic fluid, but it’s just splash/cooled like a conventional diff. It can be used for a very long time.

Thanks for the intro. Hopefully my hybrid Sienna will last as long as this RAV4.

As far as I know, it uses the same WS Toyota automatic transmission fluid as other Toyota transmissions.

It’s the same stuff, but it doesn’t work the same, which is why you get 100,000 miles out of it.

Here’s what the owner’s manual says …..

It proves with a single point that you can change the oil every 10,000 miles and not have a problem. (Hybrids)

If you drive 100% on the highway. No stop and go, no short trips.

The manual says change every 10k.

I’m just asking your opinion, if you can’t support it logically, don’t comment.

It depends on your driving habits. If you are always on the road, you should change it sooner.

If the vehicle is operated in a manner that meets the criteria for “special operating conditions” such as: off-road driving, driving on dirt roads, towing a trailer, repeated short trips below 32˚F, or heavy idling, the oil must be changed every 5,000 miles regardless of the type of oil used.

https://support.toyota.com/… /What-are-the-oil-chan-7604…

On a recent trip to the dealer, the dealer said the oil needs to be changed at the first 5k miles, then 10k miles, and then every 10k miles after that (so 20k, 30k, 40k, etc).

Somewhere between 50-100k. Highway miles are easy on the car.

The car is original, but he just posted today that his car was mauled by a herd of deer.