标题: For all the CVT Questions, Please Come see the answers [打印本页] 作者: wintercool 时间: 2012-6-3 17:14:46 标题: For all the CVT Questions, Please Come see the answers
Just read all the articles from here www.cvt.co.nz作者: 1111 时间: 2012-6-3 17:51:18
本帖最后由 1111 于 2012-6-3 17:52 编辑
Is a CVT transmission reliable?
Yes, it is very reliable and I believe it will be the transmission of the future.
More and more Car manufacturers are using it in their new vehicles and in the next 5 years you will see many more makes and models with a CVT transmission fitted. You also will see them more in 4WD vehicles.
CVT Transmissions have had a bad reputation in the past. The horror stories develop when CVT transmissions start playing up and sometimes even lose drive completely. The cause of these problems often arose in vehicles that were imported from Japan and sold in New Zealand. Workshops in New Zealand started servicing these cars without realising they were fitted with CVT’s. They changed the oil and after a period the transmission failed. A broken belt was most often the problem. The dealers could not supply parts at that stage to repair this, so a lot of second hand units were fitted. The workshops used Dexron II and Dexron III to service the transmission and the problem recurred作者: wintercool 时间: 2012-6-3 19:53:09