Hi everyone,

I have a 2012 Nissan versa which uses a CVT. I am close to hitting 100k miles and just had my transmission serviced. I’m not having any problems with the transmission, but just wanted to do routine maintenance on my car. When I was at the shop, the guy kept telling me how unreliable CVTs are and I’m lucky I got 100k miles out of it. He also made it sound like it could totally fail at any point in the near future. So I’m just curious how long do CVTs last? He said they typically fail around 70k miles. If they truly don’t last much longer than 100k miles then maybe I should look into getting a new car while mine is still working. I tried looking it up online but I don’t trust the AI content.

Thanks!

  • ikiddMEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The early Nissan CVTs are famous for failures at very low mileage. OPs mechanic is not wrong. Consider, this is a 13yo transmission with less than 100k on it. If you’re seeing 100k transmissions right now, they’re likely less than 5 years old.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Again, not in my experience. Though i’m speaking in a place on the other half of the planet so thing could be different here.