It's a Nissan CVT. It's going to fail regardless of how it's maintained. Just save money for the day when you have to replace the damn thing.

These things aren't imploding at 50-70k miles because of a lack of maintenance (although that's a contributing factor) or because the owner uses it to tow heavy trailers (abuse is a contributing factor as well). It's happening so early and frequently because of key design flaws from the JATCO designed/built CVT that are ignored entirely by Nissan's constantly changing leadership.

Subaru, Toyota, and Honda CVT's that aren't made by JATCO aren't not failing so early like the Nissans are. The Nissan ones are so bad that they are causing people to distrust CVT's made by entirely different companies.

I would seriously consider selling the car while it still has a working transmission.

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Posted by FCP

Delta State Univ. - Fightin' Okra

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Posted on 2/14/23 at 12:52 pm to goofball

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It's a Nissan CVT. It's going to fail regardless of how it's maintained.

Truth. Drove a 2009 Altima for 160K miles. It was on transmission number 3 when I sold it, and it was ready for number 4.

I drove that thing like it was made of glass. No racing. No winding out the gears. Obviously no towing. It still chewed through 3 CVTs before I sold it.

One of the (many) problems is that the Nissan CVT apparently cannot be rebuilt. At least not at any local shop. The only thing my transmission guy would offer (short of new replacement) was to pull one from a wrecked car and install it without a warranty. Otherwise, I did find a place in Dallas that specializes in Nissan CVTs. They were around $3,500, but you had to bring the car to them. Pretty sure they were rebuilding onsite.

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