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i had a 2015 Nissan Altima with the CVT transmission... the car never had a mechanical issue
Pros: no mechanical issues
Vehicle:
Nissan Altima
Mileage: 98000 km
My Nissan Pathfinder has a CVT transmission. According to the internet, it won't last 80k miles, at best. I've got 197k miles on it, plus I tow, and it's still going strong!
Pros: long lasting, still strong
Vehicle:
Nissan Pathfinder
Mileage: 317048 km
CVT doesn’t give me reliability anxiety, it’s a fleet car sold to police. Get it serviced regularly, it’s fine. Most people blame the cvt, when it’s actually the valves need cleaned, and O2 sensors, Spark plugs, coil packs need replaced. The stock tune needs updated. Even then the Subaru tune isn’t great. My kid loves the smooth as butter cvt ride. I love it puts her to sleep.
Pros: smooth ride, puts kid to sleep, reliable with service
Cons: stock tune not great, needs regular service
Vehicle:
Subaru Forester
Don\u2019t go with the Nissan Versa I beg of you! I bought a nearly brand new Nissan Versa. To be exact a 2017 Nissan Versa certified preowned with only 7,000 miles on it in 2018. And it did not make it to 100,000 miles. And I religiously took care of this car and got oil changes with the best oil regularly! My experience owning the 2017 Nissan Versa nearly brand new over the years: When I hit 30k miles (warranty goes out at 30k miles): recall on a part - I would take the key out of the ignition and the car would still run as if the key were in the ignition effectively killing 3 brand new batteries. I had to be jumped off multiple times. The problem got sorted out and I still have the part from when it messed up. I had to manually learn how to disconnect the battery so it would stop killing my batteries until the problem was fixed which was annoying at only 30k miles. 40k miles I\u2019m at a drive through and my car starts smoking! The actuator broke/or had to be replaced. 50k miles - sensor issues and gear shift got stuck so had to have those things fixed 70k miles - needed an engine replacement so I found a used engine with 17,000 miles to replace it with 75k miles - ac and defrost went out had to be fixed. 80k miles - CVT transmission went out and started jerking. So I looked for a used cvt transmission to put in and when I spent thousands to replace it with a newer one it was worse than the one I already had and I was stalling out in the road. So I took it back and got a different one. That entire process took from March of this year until September. Also had to pay for transmission fluid & transmission lines were leaking and had to be replaced. 80,050 miles - battery died so had to get a new one. Alignment was needed. 2 brand new front tires were needed. And the VTT solenoid on the engine needed fixing/replacing and I got all this done at the Nissan dealership and it cost $2,000. My AC was running hot after not too long of having it fixed and I spent less than $100 on an AC gauge and Freon at Oreillys and put Freon in. Please RUN away from this car.
Cons: CVT transmission failed
Vehicle:
Nissan
Mileage: 80000 km
the CVT transmissions are fragile and don’t last much over 100k.
Cons: fragile, short lifespan
Vehicle:
Subaru
Mileage: 100000 km
my sister in law had an 09 Murano. Same thing. She replaced the CVT in it 3 times
Cons: repeated failures, poor reliability
Vehicle:
Nissan Murano
My 2017 versa died at 54k miles / 88k km. Got 2 quotes, $6k or 8k on a car worth 10k. Canadian $ figures.
Cons: CVT dying, high replacement cost
Vehicle:
Nissan
Mileage: 88000 km
Mine went out last year at 50k (32k miles) on a 2017 SL. Super annoying and still annoyed.
Cons: went out, super annoying
Vehicle:
Nissan
Mileage: 51499 km
Transmission problems the famous CVT transmission from Nissan. Total garbage.
Cons: total garbage, transmission problems
My wife had a Nissan Cube that had a CVT transmission and it was fucked. I don’t know what was wrong with it but sometimes after stopping at a red light and you’d go to accelerate you could have your foot down to the floor and it would just drag ass then WHAM you’d start flying. My wife almost killed us a couple of times from that happened turning in intersections.
Cons: transmission failed, dangerous acceleration, drag ass then WHAM
Vehicle:
Nissan Cube
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