On 17/4/21 1:50 am, Rod Speed wrote:


"trader_4" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 12:34:33 PM UTC-4, Frank wrote:
On 4/14/2021 10:05 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article , "frank says...

i would probably trade it in but would be reticent to get a new
Nissan
after hearing that their quality has slipped considerably in the
last 10
years and major problems with their CVT. $1,000 seems cheap for a
tranny repair and may not last long.



About 3 years ago my son had a Nissan with the CVT that went out at
about 130,000 miles. Nissan would not do anything about it as it was
10,000 out of the extended warrenty that Nissan put on that
transmission
after many of they went out. Cost him around $ 4000 to get it
repaired.

He got rid of that junker after another year or so.


We had a Nissan Sentra ca 1990 that was a great car but traded it in
when repair value was approaching book value. Apparently quality
started going downhill when they partnered with Renault after 2000.

I had a CVT on a 2016 Subaru Forester that got totaled in 2019 replaced
with a Subaru Crosstrek with CVT. I like the CVT and get great mileage.
Hopefully some of the early problems with this type transmission have
been ironed out by now.

Google sez:

Are Jatco CVT reliable?
Nissan subsidiary Jatco supplies many of the world's automakers with CVT
transmissions. Nissan vehicles have been featuring CVTs for 15 years,
but they've demonstrated less than stellar reliability. ... CVTs. Lots
of other Nissan owners have also known the scourge, even after Jatco
took steps to improve reliability.May 23, 2018

I had never heard of CVT transmissions until this thread.Â*Â* Seems they
took
the slipping belt idea that self-propelled lawn mowers use and put it
on cars.

The you need a hearing aid, BAD.

Similar idea,

Nope and nothing even remotely like it.

but I guess the two pulleys change width so the belt doesn't slip a lot.

There is no belt.

Yes there is. It is a metal push belt.

Here, go educate yourself; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiwRUfFEc5k

Seems they are more failure prone and more costly to replace or fix.

More mindless bull****.

They are if they are Jatco.

I wonder why they are more costly than a regular automatic?

They arent.

Seems they would be less complex to me.

But you dont have a ****ing clue about how they work.

Neither do you.

Also I see a lot of people don't like them because they don't
behave like the automatics they are used to, with shift points.

More mindless bull****.

You're wrong again Rod. People do not like the rubber band effect of a
CVT. That's why manufacturers have indexed shift points now.

Good to know when looking for the next car.




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