Making the 4lo warning chime less obnoxious.

uz guyz are rude

 

Just tested my 07 (never heard a beep getting into 4lo before.) After engaging 4hi I switched to 4lo while still in drive...guess what? I got a beep!!

 

ITS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!

 

OP, your truck may have a bad 4WD actuator. Since your under warranty, go to the dealer and have them check it out. I know of one other person that had a bad one from the factory. For them it took a long time for it to engage properly.

 

Collins... it doesn't go off if you are in L4, only if you turn the dial to L4 without being in Neutral (automatics) or clutch fully depressed per the card:



If it makes any noise doing it per the card, then there is a problem.

 

WTF, I didn't get so much as a mouse fart when I incorrectly went from 2Hi to 4Lo. I wonder if mine's broken or something

 

Getting this right is not as easy as the above advice (Read the card, just follow the directions, RTFM, etc.) makes it sound. If you don't brake hard enough, you don't unload the drive train, and it STILL doesn't work. You actually have to

--brake to a full stop and then
--HOLD the brake

while you switch in and out of 4 lo. You don't have stop hard enough to spill your coffee, but you do have to stop the vehicle and then keep it from rolling even the slightest bit. I just posted this as a separate thread because I think it's important enough to post about again.

 

Zombie thread!

Nice revival MIKO

I need to be in neutral in my man trans, with the brake pedal pushed. Does neutral help in autos?

 

NEUTRAL is the ONLY way to get into L4 for automatics...! That's the problem I think... people don't read that big card in their sun visor, or the owner's manual, or understand Tacoma World posts??? PARK is NOT NEUTRAL. LOL!

 

You know this 4LO nonsense is really starting to P me off. It's getting worse. (not better, as someone suggested it should as the truck breaks in. Made sense to me.) But it's getting colder and it seems like the cold affects it. Great, just when I really need it. During a storm or buried in a snow drift or something.

Yesterday I was using my method of unloading the drive train and it just wasn't engaging. Coming from an '02 Tacoma with a very efficient little "Mini-me" shifter for engaging LO range, this stupid electronic actuator has me fuming.

I have a steep drive and a narrow 1 7/8 car garage. Using 4LO is something I do every time I come home. It makes it much easier to squeeze in between my other vehicles and the door. This is BS. This problem is so bad that the other contributors to this thread don't even KNOW it's not working. They were looking for ways to quiet the BEEPING. Ha! That's like turning up the radio so you don't hear your brakes grinding, instead of getting a service done. I just really, really HATE innovation when it goes BACKWARDS. The little manual shifter worked perfectly. Now they save a s__tload of cash by using a plastic dial instead of an entirely separate linkage, but my BRAND NEW truck won't engage 4 LO unless I play games.

This stupid re-design has me bumming I bought this truck, really. I had this AWESOME 02 and now I wish I had it back. Sure it was starting give me problems but at least it BEHAVED when I wanted to use 4WD.

 

Take it in. Your truck is not working as it should and not a design thing. I had the same in my '01. My '05 & '10 work fine in L4.

 

I don't have any problems getting mine in and out of 4 Hi or Lo but I would personally feel better if there were still a manual shift lever instead of a switch.

 

I can agree with that, but the dial has never failed. Remembering to be in neutral for 4 low has been an issue a couple times, lol.

 

I want to thank you all for your replies. I finally (no, I mean it, I swear... this time I did, I did...) found out what was wrong, why the dang thing would not engage 4WD low range.

CLUTCH TO THE FLOOR!!!


I want to give a special shout out to whomever posted the scan of the instructions, cause reading them a (4th?) time seemed to be the charm. It's as Kirkofwimbo says...

The clutch has to be TO THE FLOOR. Not like when you shift, but MASHED all the way down. That is what made the difference, and now I find I have no problems whatsoever engaging my Tacoma's 4WD low range. I am happy to say there is no defect with the vehicle.

 

You are welcome! Most of us are in a hurry, so we don't finish reading the fine print!
Automatics must be in N (neutral).
Manual Transmission must have clutch FULLY depressed.