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Come to find out the CVT transmissions are not that reliable I now hope & pray the new transmission will last thank you
25,000 miles is all it lasted. UnbelievableCome to find out the CVT transmissions are not that reliable I now hope & pray the new transmission will last thank you
Yeah, it sounds like his may have had a defective part that suffered metal fatigue and just failed. It happens.Kia Soul's with IVT built before June 2020 had reliability issues and had a software update which reportedly improved reliability. Given the Soul and the Venue use the same transmission, I wonder if there was an update that should have been applied to your car. Yours is the first complete IVT failure I've read about on the forum so it doesn't appear to be a common issue, at least among our group of Venue owners. You've got a good warranty and any design improvements should have been built into your new transmission so drive it like you stole it...lol.
Yep, automatics are crazy complicated. All those hundreds of parts, clutches, etc.. My dad was a mechanic who specialized in trannies. He began to learn the newer trannies, but pretty much stayed busy with the typical Chrysler TorqueFlites, GM 400, Ford C6, etc. type units and their derivatives. He was in his mid-70s and still working PT rebuilding trannies when he passed away suddenly a few years ago.Another reason (like others have mentioned), why I insist in having a Manual Transmission car; so glad I found my Venue with the 6MT.
If you think about it a CVT has a steel belt between 2 pulleys, that single part has to work as hard as 6 different gears in a MT; no wonder they are having trouble with those.
Good thing for Hyundai Warranty though.
I agree -- warranty = no worries for a while. Many times buying a used car is like marrying a prostitute -- it looks good, but you really don't know where it's been....Important thing is that it was covered under warranty and replaced for free. I only buy new (or Certified Used) under a factory warranty. I've known way too many people who scoff at a car payment so they buy a $10k used car then the tranny explodes and it's $3,500 for a rebuild, then something else happens and it's $1,500...
It's expensive being a cheap SOB.I agree -- warranty = no worries for a while. Many times buying a used car is like marrying a prostitute -- it looks good, but you really don't know where it's been.
Fearless leader at work bought his daughter a used Hyundai sedan of some sort, bragging about how he got a super deal. A few months later, the transmission died, and he spent several months tracking down / installing a used transmission. Unrelated, she totaled the car out a few months after that.