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Corolla Altis 2011 . Mileage 272k no problem
This claim about "parts not available" and "no-one is familiar with them" is surely evidence of their reliability! If they were blowing up all over the place parts would be available and mechanics would be as familiar with them as they are with wheel bearings and timing belts. Anyway a torque converter or DCT that blows up with damage comparable to a broken CVT belt will generally be replaced with a remanufactured one too. Plus I'm old enough to remember cars of forty years ago. Their transmissions were like everything else about them – by today's standards they were very unreliable.
Lower reliability, expensive to replace, just get a manual, if you plan to keep your car for a long time.
Cvt transmissions are the reason I'd never buy a Nissan. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
CVT buy extended warranty.
I have a 23 Nissan Rogue with CVT. I looked on Consumer Reports and for the 3 previous years it shows good reliability ratings on the transmission.
why do you keep calling it a cvt transmission?
Subaru has extended it's warranty on it's CVT to 10 year 100,000 miles
Toyota hybrids are not cvt!
They call their hybrids transaxle e-cvt. But it doesn't have chains or pooles. It has 2 electric motor generators and one planetary gear in between and IT IS THE MOST RELIABILE GEARBOX IN THE WORLD.
I have a 2016 Corolla. I just changed the transmission fluid with 120,000 miles on it. I purchased it used with 85,000 miles on it and i didn't realize that a cvt wasn't like a regular automatic. I wasn't having issues with it but i changed the fluid anyway since I wasn't sure if ut had been done before. The fluid was dark but not as dark as i thought it would be with that kind of mileage.
Manuals are better
No, they are not reliable however, they are the finest disposable transmissions on the planet
Aren't all other transmissions notoriously worse? I owe a few Hondas and other family members have Subarus because of their reliability, and they rarely have these issues. Granted if you buy a crappy car from a crappy then you are going to have a crappy transmission. Should these anti CVT videos be more focused on the car company and not the tech?
Thanks for the excellent information. I have a VW with a DSG gearbox, which is excellent, but sometimes there's a time lag when accelerating. Looks like ECVT is the way forward.
2:38 "Because the CVT keeps the engine more or less at the same rpm as you're accelerating the noise is a little bit more obvious when compared to a normal transmission"
I beg to differ. The "normal" transmission's volume ramps up and down, sometimes softer and sometimes louder than a CVT. What people notice, and are bothered by, is not having that change.
And there is more difference between the Honda eCVT that is shown in your video at 7:25, and the Toyota eCVT that you describe while showing Honda's, than there is between the Toyota and a belt-and-pulley CVT. The Toyota simply replaces the belt and pulley set with a planetary gear set. It is controlled thru electronics by varying the power split in the planetary, rather than moving cones. In fact, the "e" in Toyota's "eCVT" stands for "electronically controlled," although their marketing department shortened it.
Honda's is not a mechanical system at all. The "e" stands for "electrically coupled" (again, blame marketing for shortening it. There literally are no mechanical parts to fail in the eCVT mode of operation. "Virtual CVT" is a better name (Credit:I first heard that name in a CNET review of the 2017 Accord Hybrid.)
7:48 "The type of eCVT system that Toyota and Honda [use] is not really a transmission at all."
This statement is true about a Honda hybrid. It is blatantly false about a Toyota hybrid.
Excellent information. Toyota, here I come.
a lot of what you said is misguided, you should watch engineering explained's video on CVTs. They aren't louder, they just cause a drone effect when they sit at a single RPM when accelerating, and they are perfectly fine for performance if not even better than a manual or traditional auto, the only thing is that they have a limit on how torquey an engine can be, so there are no 600hp CVTs, they are mostly below 300hp
Great video. For sure, an E-CTV (hybrid ).
Nissan cvt gearbox is unreliable
CVT transmission’s are junk.
In general, CVTs matched with heavy cars or torquey engines are more likely to have issues. This is pretty much by design.
Owh a Honda & a Toyota cvts and no complain so far. Works great for years. I am easy on the pedal tbh.
I'd still buy a manual transmission over anything else…
They just sound plain awful! 🤮
Have a Nissan Versa with a CVT approaching 100,000 miles. So far I haven't had an ounce of problem with it. Mileage between 37 and 40 Mi to the gallon.
I've talked to MANY master mechanics and it's the one thing they ALL agree on– it's TRASH.. simple trash….
Friend with Corolla CVT with over 150k miles. No engine or CVT problems.