2017 Honda HR-V CVT

[Exhaustgases]

It has around 132K miles I think one fluid change at 60 some K miles. Not sure if it ever had a transmission problem, it did have the update software about 3 years ago.
Any guesses about when the belt will go? Anyone else here have one?
I see all kinds of different mileage that they have broke at in different forums etc. the ones that get me are the dealers installing a 70K mile used one at the cost of 5K for just the transmission, and 3 or more K labor. Wow!

 

[dbias]

I had a 2016 Civic Coupe I recently sold with around 125k miles on it. I changed the cvt fluid in it every 40k miles and never had any problems with it.
When I first bought it new it had some software quirks and kept forgetting the keys and had to be towed to the dealership three times, twice stranding my daughter at college three hundred miles away, and all the dealerships did was charge us to replace the key fob battery ( this was not the problem) and send her on her way. I don’t know what resolved the issue as it just stopped doing it.
It is the only car I’ve owned that had a cvt and I always had that fear of failure in the back of my mind. But the fuel dilution and key fobs gave me other things to think about. While at college my daughters short tripping and winters where it was buried in snow drifts for weeks at a time didn’t help with the fuel dilution I’m sure.

 

[Nessism1]

The HR-V transmission is different from the Civic's, it's more failure prone. There was a software update a couple years back to help the situation, but I'm not sure how much real risk there is. My guess is that it will fail eventually, before the engine for example. Sorry, can't be more help...

 

[slacktide_bitog]

Change the fluid often. It is very easy to do, no scan tool required