Is a CVT transmission unreliable? (lease, gaskets, salvage, brake)
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My question is, are CVT's good for the life of the car? I have heard they are not rebuildable and new CVT needs to be installed which is big bucks.
I really know nothing about them hence the questions.
The answer to your question is a simple no. To be fair though, no transmission is good for the life of a car. Transmissions have a lot of moving parts and all of the power is transferred through them so parts in them are going to wear out and fail. They typically fail long before the engine does. The biggest difference though is CVT's are known to not hold up as long as conventional automatics and nowhere near as long as manuals and to top it all off, they are prohibitively expensive to repair and are usually considered disposable and replaced with new. So I would never buy a used car with over 75,000 miles on it that had a CVT but then I would never buy anything again with a CVT regardless of new or used. I hate everything about a CVT.
The answer to your question is a simple no. To be fair though, no transmission is good for the life of a car. Transmissions have a lot of moving parts and all of the power is transferred through them so parts in them are going to wear out and fail. They typically fail long before the engine does. The biggest difference though is CVT's are known to not hold up as long as conventional automatics and nowhere near as long as manuals and to top it all off, they are prohibitively expensive to repair and are usually considered disposable and replaced with new. So I would never buy a used car with over 75,000 miles on it that had a CVT but then I would never buy anything again with a CVT regardless of new or used. I hate everything about a CVT.
If you look on cars.com there's hundreds of thousands of CVT cars listed used online in the U.S. right now, with high mileage. I don't think they're any less reliable than standard autos. Nissan had some issues with theirs, other than that no reason they should fail early if properly maintained, and the car is not abused.
I drive a new Nissan Altima with a CVT. It is fine, and unless there's a factory glitch, it WILL be fine.
There are a lot of Nissans, with CVTs, that have well over 200k on the ticker.
Avoid the earliest model CVTs, change your fluid (with the proper fluid) every 25k-30k miles, and don't drive the car like a NASCAR driver, and you'll be fine.
It really depends on the brand, Toyota CVT has always been reliable including their AT. Nissan CVT may have lots of issues, the entire model in the US has not been as reliable as Honda or Toyota. For example, people say great things about the Nissan VERSA here but that car's CVT is the most problematic in the industry.
If you look on cars.com there's hundreds of thousands of CVT cars listed used online in the U.S. right now, with high mileage. I don't think they're any less reliable than standard autos. Nissan had some issues with theirs, other than that no reason they should fail early if properly maintained, and the car is not abused.
How do you that the CVT hasn’t already been replaced?
How do you that the CVT hasn’t already been replaced?
That wouldn't make sense to spend thousands of dollars to replace a transmission, and put it up for sale. Those who did that would be a small percentage. If someone is spending big money on a new transmission, they're usually in it for the long haul, and those cars would be so old they'd go to a junk yard or auction, not listed online.
Nissan was one of the first car companies to employ CVT Transmissions in their cars. All these years later they still can't get it right
Funny that the Nissan Rouge is one of the bestselling vehicles and they have a CVT, there’s nothing wrong with the new ones, stop living in the past.
If you cant get most to change the transmission fluid on time for a regualr automatic, they take that same mindset to a CVT and those aren't as forgiving when they are neglected.
If if maintained, if they is a design flaw, it will fail. Nissan finally figured out what was causing the failures around 2015-2016 in the Pathfinder transmissions, so now those will be way more reliable.
But it still sucks, the main reason CVT's are put in because they are a little cheaper to produce and put in the car and gets more mpg, but in return are probably never fixed and extremely expensive to replace for a transmission that seems to be designed to just be replaced vs repaired.
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