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Originally Posted by necdb3

B-man,

Knock wood but I bought my wife a 2016 Camry Hybrid new. It has 106k miles on it with a CVT and not a stitch of trouble. Also, still has it's original brakes and batteries, including the 12v lead acid battery.

Dave


I think Toyota has the CVT down.

Hybrids with CVT are different. They're a planetary gear setup with the gas engine driving one input, and the electric on another input. Varying the speed of the electric changes the ratio of the transmission. Not much to go wrong.

The non hybrids get the steel belt type cvt. I've had 2 honda's with them. They scare me, but i've had no trouble. It definitely doesn't feel too good under wot though.

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Honda makes a great manual transmission but they never got their automatics above the "average" margin without a lot of fluid services (every 20K miles) like Toyota did. Toyota is about the only one that got CVT's down to a science. I have a coworker with a Prius that has over 400K miles on the original engine, CVT trans, and second battery pack at just under 300K. Still doesn't leak a drop of fluid anywhere.