I had an early cvt and didn't have a problem. My current one has nearly 290,000km(180,000miles) and is still hanging in there but does get finicky now and then. It hasn't left me stranded or caused enough worry to park it yet but it did take a while to trust it enough to take on a drive for more than 20 mins. Besides, most of the cheap used cvt's I priced out over the last year are sold already.