Hey scotty my 2002 Toyota rav4 has started a new issue when i come to a complete stop the transmission bogs down the engine and kills it and has difficulty taking off seems to be worse when cold but the strange thing is when I very first started it and put it in gear it was fine it only started to bog down once I started moving what could be the issue here car only has 85,000 miles i checked the fluid level after my trip and ran the seletor through all the gears and it looks fine its a 2.0l I4 vvti with overdrive my dad thought maybe the overdrive had something to do with it but turning it off didn't help

My 2002 RAV4 was having similar issues that eventually left my wife stranded at a store. I thought we were going to have to buy a new transmission. As we had just bought this RAV4 with 275,000 miles on it. Long story short I did a drain and fill. And and changed the gasket and filter on the transmission. The fluid was dark and burnt. Had a bad smell. I replaced exactly what came out. (Around 4 quarts) Which is a fraction of what the transmission holds. But it worked. Drove great after that. I repeated the process about month later. And I will do it one more time soon. I hope yours is as simple as this. As we are really happy with this vehicle. Its at 296,000 now. And no issues. Other than the Rpms are a bit high at 70mph. But I think one more drain and fill should solve this. Hope this helps!😁👍

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Hey scotty my 2002 Toyota rav4 has started a new issue when i come to a complete stop the transmission bogs down the engine and kills it and has difficulty taking off seems to be worse when cold but the strange thing is when I very first started it and put it in gear it was fine it only started to bog down once I started moving what could be the issue here car only has 85,000 miles i checked the fluid level after my trip and ran the seletor through all the gears and it looks fine its a 2.0l I4 vvti with overdrive my dad thought maybe the overdrive had something to do with it but turning it off didn't help

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My 2002 RAV4 was having similar issues that eventually left my wife stranded at a store. I thought we were going to have to buy a new transmission. As we had just bought this RAV4 with 275,000 miles on it. Long story short I did a drain and fill. And and changed the gasket and filter on the transmission. The fluid was dark and burnt. Had a bad smell. I replaced exactly what came out. (Around 4 quarts) Which is a fraction of what the transmission holds. But it worked. Drove great after that. I repeated the process about month later. And I will do it one more time soon. I hope yours is as simple as this. As we are really happy with this vehicle. Its at 296,000 now. And no issues. Other than the Rpms are a bit high at 70mph. But I think one more drain and fill should solve this. Hope this helps!😁👍