Originally Posted by
Dirk Diggler
Fummins IMO pretty much laid the law down in terms of how long we can expect to keep an original cvt going. In a nutshell, it was shown with diligent maintenance most of these units can go over 150k miles but your rolling the dice because he had 2, I believe, premature failures out of his fleet of 30 I think? Those aren't bad odds. I also feel like it was implied if you can hit 200k miles, congratulations you've done better than 90% of Nissan owners lol. But after that the CVT doesnt owe you anything. It's a crapshoot but I do trust my Mirage more than a Spark or Versa. If you need this car to last 5 years or more I wouldn't recommend it for uber as I put 30k miles on mine in 6 months and the cvt won't hold up like a Honda or Toyota would. However if you can afford a different car say every 3 years by all means gig work the hell out of it and dump it after 100k miles. I stopped doing Uber on the side and only do instacart because the daily miles was much lower (50 vs 250 miles a day) and less wear and tear. If your commuting to a job these cars are perfect and will last you a decade if your under 10k miles driving a year in my opinion.
Buy a Mirage and blow the cvt after 3-5 years/100,000-150,000miles and don't have warranty left, toss in a low mileage used one for around $1500. You'd still likely be better off financially than spending more to buy a toyota or honda and they still could have problems too.
In order to do a transmission fluid flush on these cars you need to remove the heat exchanger on the front of the cvt and bolt on an adapter plate with two fittings, and run some hoses to a flush machine.
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