Level or button to apply 4X4

[Toyotero4ever]

Hello!

Why on the 5TH Gen some 4Runner come with lever and some come with button to activate the 4X4?

Excuse my ignorance,

Thanks,

 

[philsey]

There is no answer to your question, other than Toyota decided to do it that way. All else is supposition.

 

[Ed Rooney]

I test drove a TE yesterday and the lever was totally beyond the sales guy.

 

[JB.]

There is no answer to your question, other than Toyota decided to do it that way. All else is supposition.

I suppose that is true.

 

[eddiebx]

Because only real men buy Trail editions, and pulling a lever to engage 4wd really get's the testosterone pumping :becky:

Not really sure what you are asking [MENTION=90615]Toyotero4ever[/MENTION] but I think the way Toyota outfitted our generation 4runners is as follows: 10'-12' all SR5 and TE have levers, while the 10'-12' LE has the knob. On the 13'+ the SR5 and LE both have knobs, and only the TE has a lever. Hopefully that's what you were wanting to know.

 

[-JD-]

Worth pointing out, since you may not know this, the 4runners with the lever have a 'part time' 4wd system with no center differential. The push button system uses a center differential and thus has a 'full time' or AWD system.

 

[gm4life]

Worth pointing out, since you may not know this, the 4runners with the lever have a 'part time' 4wd system with no center differential. The push button system uses a center differential and thus has a 'full time' or AWD system.

This was true actual until 2013. For the 2013 model year SR5's with 4WD got the dial or button to apply 4WD. The new 2014 SR5 models are the same way and I actually like it.

 

[-JD-]

^I didn't know that. So does the SR5 now have a center diff?

 

[eddiebx]

^I didn't know that. So does the SR5 now have a center diff?

Nah...I think they just changed the lever into a motorized selector now, it's still just the same part-time 4wd as before.

 

[gm4life]

^I didn't know that. So does the SR5 now have a center diff?

Nope. Still has 2H, 4H, 4L and is indeed part-time.

 

[LandCruiser]

Because in the mid 90s when soccer moms NEEDED an SUV, nothing daunted them more that that weird stick on the floor you needed to bugger around with to make the car go in snow, mud, and rain. Who am I kidding? Those never went off road, except onto the soccer field, or into the weeds on the way to pick up the kids in a Xanax and vodka haze.

Manual t-case shifters can be ornery when the weather or the truck is cold (which led to all manner of complaints that an off road vehicle wasn't luxurious enough with that terrible terrible shifter), but with the proper amount of force will ALWAYS engage--which is more than can be said of rotary dial/pushbutton systems.

...of course car manufacturers wisened up and started to make 2WD variants--problem solved.

 

[Ed Rooney]

Nah...I think they just changed the lever into a motorized selector now, it's still just the same part-time 4wd as before.

If you don't have a locking diff button, then it continues to be a part time/slippery surface system.

2014 trail has a lever, Sr5 has a dial, so I doubt Toyota would add a third drivetrain.

But if they did manage to slip "pun intended" a differential in there on the sr5's, i'll be at the dealer tomorrow.

 

[TOY2G]

Nah...I think they just changed the lever into a motorized selector now, it's still just the same part-time 4wd as before.

Correct,they just added the 2wd selection. Something I did not know when I bought my 13. When I test drove it and saw the 2wd on the dial, I assumed (and was excited) it had the center diff lock. Boy was I disappointed when I learned (in Colorado) just how wrong I was. But when I purchased, my options were limited because we had to have the 3rd row.

So now the wife has the SR5 and I have the TE with the "man shifter"

 

[Toyotero4ever]

Hi guys,

Now I'm more confused still :doh:

Look, I want to change my 4Runner 08 for 2010 or 2011 Limited,

I have seen many times the same limited truck, same accessories, same color, same year and everything just less in the mechanism for implementing the 4X4

But according to their opinions is the button is better, i bow down for use the button,

Thanks!

 

[1engineer]

Hi guys,

Now I'm more confused still :doh:

Look, I want to change my 4Runner 08 for 2010 or 2011 Limited,

I have seen many times the same limited truck, same accessories, same color, same year and everything just less in the mechanism for implementing the 4X4

But according to their opinions is the button is better, i bow down for use the button,

Thanks!

Read the link at the bottom of this post on how 4WD's work. Then, using your newfound knowledge, go back and re read this thread again but AFTER going to Toyota's 4Runner website and reading the 4WD type for each model.