Originally Posted by
Fummins
I've been doing some maintenance to the highest mileage original cvt Mirage. It's at 367800km/228500miles now. I changed the spark plugs, air filters, few light bulbs, and cvt fluid. Took if for a drive and it runs great, lots of power takes off from a stop way better than my own.
I didn't start keeping a copy(at my desk) of maintenance records for this car til around 50,000km.
The first driver of this car was an older guy who took really good care of this car for the 250-300,000km or so before retiring. It's been treated like the town bicycle since then.
Here's some of the cvt maintenance records I pulled up for this car. I changed the fluid early a few times cause the fluid was looking darker than normal and figured it was on it's way out but nope...
July 2017-137,000km changed cvt fluid
April 2018-194,000km changed cvt fluid and cartridge filter
Dec 2018-247,800km changed cvt fluid
May 2019-278,900km changed cvt fluid
Oct 2019-303,400km changed cvt fluid changed both filters
Sept 2020-367,800km changed cvt fluid
I've notice the way these cvt cars drive varies a lot from car to car. This high mileage one runs great, shifts like you'd expect, accelerates pretty decent. I've driven lots of others with between 150,000 and 250,000kms some drive great and some are just slugs. Like my 2014. Floor it from a stop and it takes a second or two before it decides to giver, then when it does go it's just a bunch of noise and a lot of disappointment. It moves but just seems a little off, hard to tell if it's the engine lacking some horse powers or the cvt not working like it should. They all drive pretty similar in most circumstances, it's just when taking off from a stop or trying to merge is when I notice a big difference.
With that said, I should be replacing the cvt fluid in mine sooner than later as I'm nearing 50,000km/30,000miles. Might do spark plugs too as they are probably 7 years old by now.