They'll have it worked out I'm sure by the time hers is done. Just waiting for a major failure in the current one to replace it.
CVT and 6 speed automatic
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I have driven mostly Nissan CVT's (Altima 2nd and 3rd gen, Murano 2nd gen, Maxima current gen) and had one Jeep Patriot CVT (1st generation).
I don't have anything nice to say about the Patriot 2.4/CVT combo so I am just going to leave that commentary out, by far the worst car I have ever rented since a mid-2000's Chevy Aveo I had as a rental.
The Nissan CVT are very easy to live with once you get used to them which does not take long, the response at a WOT kickdown on the freeway easily beats traditional automatics as it just immediately shoots up to max power RPM. The normal driving performance definitely beats that of regular automatics as well - the 2.5 and 3.5 versions I have had a lot of experience with can easily dust normal driving stoplight traffic just moseying about at 2.5-3k RPM. I am not a fan of Nissan programming the fake shift points that happened I think either 2016 or 2017, I personally would rather have a CVT perform at its peak vs the fake shift points that drop it out of its power band.
I still ? the reliability though. I had a 2nd gen Altima 2.5 rental w/~18k miles with something clearly wrong as from a stop it was a slug and took forever to get the engine up to peak HP RPM and it was just awful off the line until ~15 MPH, I have had a good dozen 2nd gen Altima 2.5 rentals and this one was the outcast as all the others performed quite well even from a standing start. There are tons of Nissan CVT horror stories out there and I witnessed one first hand where a vendor I met had her 2nd Gen Murano just lock up in a parking garage and she only had ~60k miles on it, that one sticks out in my mind as I honked at her for not moving not realizing it was her and not knowing her transmission took a dump. Talked to her a week or so later about the proposal I needed, didn't get into details because she was not really a car type but I learned her car was at Nissan dealer for 3 days getting a new trans and she was not too terribly pleased - "I won't ever buy another Nissan" was how she ended the car talk.
I don't have anything nice to say about the Patriot 2.4/CVT combo so I am just going to leave that commentary out, by far the worst car I have ever rented since a mid-2000's Chevy Aveo I had as a rental.
The Nissan CVT are very easy to live with once you get used to them which does not take long, the response at a WOT kickdown on the freeway easily beats traditional automatics as it just immediately shoots up to max power RPM. The normal driving performance definitely beats that of regular automatics as well - the 2.5 and 3.5 versions I have had a lot of experience with can easily dust normal driving stoplight traffic just moseying about at 2.5-3k RPM. I am not a fan of Nissan programming the fake shift points that happened I think either 2016 or 2017, I personally would rather have a CVT perform at its peak vs the fake shift points that drop it out of its power band.
I still ? the reliability though. I had a 2nd gen Altima 2.5 rental w/~18k miles with something clearly wrong as from a stop it was a slug and took forever to get the engine up to peak HP RPM and it was just awful off the line until ~15 MPH, I have had a good dozen 2nd gen Altima 2.5 rentals and this one was the outcast as all the others performed quite well even from a standing start. There are tons of Nissan CVT horror stories out there and I witnessed one first hand where a vendor I met had her 2nd Gen Murano just lock up in a parking garage and she only had ~60k miles on it, that one sticks out in my mind as I honked at her for not moving not realizing it was her and not knowing her transmission took a dump. Talked to her a week or so later about the proposal I needed, didn't get into details because she was not really a car type but I learned her car was at Nissan dealer for 3 days getting a new trans and she was not too terribly pleased - "I won't ever buy another Nissan" was how she ended the car talk.
Originally Posted by SubieRubyRoo
Generations of kids from now won't even know what an ICE sounds like, let's be real. The only place they'll ever be able to hear the roar of a wicked BBC on nitrous will be on the Wayback Machine page of YouTube. How sad.
Generations of kids won't have to deal with a carburetor with a stuck float that flooded the engine on a zero degree morning or the joy of setting ones points when your left stranded on the side of a highway.....oh, the humanity.
Generations of kids from now won't even know what an ICE sounds like, let's be real. The only place they'll ever be able to hear the roar of a wicked BBC on nitrous will be on the Wayback Machine page of YouTube. How sad.
Generations of kids won't have to deal with a carburetor with a stuck float that flooded the engine on a zero degree morning or the joy of setting ones points when your left stranded on the side of a highway.....oh, the humanity.
I`m with Subie on this one. Probably because of 60 plus years experience with carbs. The only time we have ever been stuck on the side of the road was never.
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