My parents have a 2013 Accord with 210,000 miles. They are aggressive drivers and are quite hard on it, but sometimes they will service it at the dealer instead of express oil, where they change the transmission fluid. The car still drives the same way it did when it was new. Out of all CVTs I've driven, I find Hondas to be the best
Exceptional video. I like how you completely disassemble the transmission while explaining in a clear and straightforward way the function of the various parts without wasting any time. I also like the occasional joke that you mix in. 👌👏
Self taught DIYer. I had my 2015 CRV CVT belt shatter at 265k miles. Since then I’ve been looking for thorough videos on transmissions. This channel is gold.
Transmissions are fascinating. Some ideas are great till they fly apart. Not a fan of cvt but wasn’t a fan of automatic trans till recently when I got weirdly into how they worked and different units are good.
not sure about nowadays, but CVTs were notorious for failing in bad ways... not with little or normal usage mind you, just that when they go, they go. Saw the most interesting use of a CVT being on an F1 car, but it would rev at max RPM the entire track, which would require a new belt after about every lap... did set an amazing course record though that was like 11 or so seconds faster on its first try. Also used this automatically adjusting shock absorber setup that looked super advanced. Don't know much about cars, but have finally started taking an interest in them lol.
I think the biggest issue with CVTs is the average Joe in the U.S. and Canada aren’t even aware that there’s a difference between a regular automatic transmission and CVT. A friend of mine bought a new Nissan Sentra so I had to explain to him why not to floor the vehicle from a standing stop. Same thing applies with unnecessary hard acceleration when you’re already at a good speed. CVTs aren’t designed to take the same abuse as regular transmissions.
Toyota solved that problem in their CVTs. They have an acceleration gear that hard connects to the output at launch or passing. This takes the strain load off the belt. It deactivates when not needed. I believe their first generation of CVTs had problems before this solution was implemented.
@@telcobilly Toyota also built the CVT/belt portion less durable than normal to cut costs because they knew it wouldn't have the added strain of initial acceleration due to the physical first gear. Also, some owners on the forums have commented on the annoying jarring/lurching sensation as the system switches between physical first gear & the CVT.
@@telcobilly The Nissan Rogue has a acceleration gear. It's fairly obvious if you look at the RPM. I never feel a need to "pass" or overtake another vehicle so I don't know about racing it, which you should not do anyway.
I put 140,000 miles on a 2014 Civic with a CVT. I don't like CVTs generally, but this one hasn't given me any problems yet. Important note is, I drive mine mostly on the freeway (to the office and home, so its 90% + freeway driving) and I change out the CVT fluids fairly often.
mine has 150K; I work with the car, so I do a lot of short distances, the first time I changed the oil, I thought it's gonna be black and full of sludge, but it wasn't the case, it was golden brown, and it looked like still in good shape.
@@RayanMADAO ""Lifetime fluid"". I think they updated the owner's manual recently. The manual of my new civic recommended changing the transmission oil every 30k but the dealer told me it was "Lifetime fluid".
Nothing beats the older 5 speed automatics honda used to make. 185,000 miles all I've done is change the fluid and filter and I still can barely feel it shift. Still get 30 mpg with k series 2.4L DOHC.
My 2005 Accord reached 300,000 miles; I liked that the transmission had a drain bolt, I wonder if their CVTs have a drain bolt? Honda even has front and rear center jack lift points, with a stamped arrow pointing to them. That Accord was a good car, still drove smoothly but did consume a lot of engine oil. I sold it because the tan leather interior looked like crap, and I just simply wanted to drive something else. Note to self, only get a black interior from now on.
My 2013 civic with 5 speed auto currently has 345600 miles. Trans still shifts perfect with regular fluid changes. Motor or trans never had one issue. Still drive it daily to work 140 mile round trips 5 days a week.
Not mechanically inclined, but even I found the video informative and easy to follow, and it gave me a clear idea of how CVT works which no other video I've seen did, thanks!
We own a 2014 Honda Accord with one of these transmissions. It’s been bullet proof since new (10 years and counting). I could tell the owner(s) of this unit didn’t take care of it.
i just imported the same Honda Fit 1.5 hybrid with CVT with 105,00KM on the clock from Japan. It will arrive at Dublin port in February I will change the transmission oil + filter every 1 1/2 year like my other CVT cars. I do that myself, as I have little trust in mechanics. How often have you been changing the transmission fluid and (2) filters (there is the small cylinder one on top and the one inside that pumps the oil up from my research)?
If this is anything like my accord's CVT, that hole is just a fill plug. Our car has 140K on it and the CVT has never given us issues. I bought it certified used at 60K and did a drain and fill at around 110K. Still runs fine. I'll likely do another drain and fill within the next year because it doesn't drain everything out.
Exactly. We own a 2014 Honda Accord and it never gave us any issues. It’s been 10 years of non-stop service and it’s still as smooth as when new. One thing I’m noticing in this video is that the owner(s) of this unit never took care of it. I’d like to know how old this unit really is.
I have a 2022 Accord Sport SE with the 1.5 turbo and CVT. I just drained and refilled the CVT fluid for the first time at 18k miles, and it came out dark amber and with a pungent odor (the scent filled the garage). The magnet had collected a small amount of shavings, but nothing that seemed unusual. I am sticking with the Honda specified HCF 2 fluid during the powertrain warranty period. Out of the bottle, HCF 2 is almost clear and for some reason does not instill much confidence - it just feels so thin and watery. It is ludicrous to believe this fluid is lifetime, and with noticeable degradation in only 18k miles, I'm going to stick to a 20k drain and refill schedule. By the way, the procedure is easy with a reasonably accessible ribbed rubber fill plug from the top. If you can change your own oil, you can change your Honda CVT fluid.
Wow Great Info James !! No way it can be lifetime !! Yeah thats the Great Sales Pitch from Honda America ! Seemingly Honda Japan says change it every 30K miles ! Hopefully that just the burn in off a new Vehicle, Hoping it clears after that !! I think you are very wise with your schedule !!
As a Honda tech, I find it funny that you pick the ONLY CVT transmission we have problems with. Also that recall for the HRV is just to see if its already failed, and if it hasn't there's just a software update. To be fair I can't remember the last time we replaced a transmission in an HRV since doing the updates.
Change your fluid often, and don't forget your cvt filters. There are high mileage cvts out there, and those are from people who did drain and fills every 30k, and did the filters. Especially the cartridge type filter.
Also, check to see if your Honda CVT has internal filter on the valve body. I have 2012 Honda Insight EX and the internal filter, cartridge filter, and oem honda cvt fluid was change at 48K miles with 3 CVT fluids changes in last 15K to flush out any leftover CVT fluid. Please check for the correct CVT fluid capacity when changing for DIY. The car shifts a lot smoother and my mpg went up. There are many honda dealerships website with a part dept page-to search to see if your Honda CVT transmission has internal filter. Perform a 4 wheel alignment once a year to get better tire wear and better mpg.
Honda CVT. • HCF-2 Fluid change every 30k miles or 2 years. • Warner filter (cartridge type) replaced every 60k-80k miles. (The warner filter is upper side of the CVT gearbox and doesn't need to drain the CVT fluid to replaced it.) • Rear differential fluid, 1st change at 15k miles then change every 60k miles.
I had an Auto repair shop for 45 years before I retired. The thing we found with any CVT regardless of manufacturer was lack of maintenance. We recommended fluid change @ 30,000 mile intervals and for the customers who followed our recommendations The CVT's held up great and for those who decided that maintenance was a waste of their money the CVT's failed. A fluid change on a CVT is a costly maintenance item because the fluid for them is very expensive and we always used the manufacturers OE fluid. Many manufacturers di not even have a recommended change interval or if they did it was sometimes recommended at around 100.000 miles. That is just simply not nearly often enough to make them last for the life of the rest of the car.
2015 Honda accord, one owner, 160k miles, trans fluid and filter change once at 100k miles, & drive it like a grandma. Still drives like new. Most reliable car I’ve ever experienced. Only thing I’ve ever had to replace was pcv valve at about 100k. I recommend a Honda accord to anyone and everyone. My father in law in PR has 2010 or so crv. He has used and abused that thing, uses it to load up construction equipment. Treats it like a damn work truck. Bitch won’t die. It has over 200k miles on an island that is only 100x35 miles and is all full of mountains, hills and pot holes. Honda knows how to build dependable vehicles.
I like driving cars with cvt transmission. My first experience with this type of transmission was in the 1960’s when I drove DAF cars and vans. They had synthetic belts. I used these for about 10 years. Later in my life I bought a Toyota Yaris cvt. I bought it new and used it for 12 years and did 100,000 miles with no trouble over that time. My current car is Toyota Yaris Cross hybrid with e-cvt I hope I this car will give me the same reliability as the old one. This one I have only had for a few months.
This guy really knows what he's talking about. I'm amazed at what a pro he is, like a cardio surgeon describing the workings of your heart, only more interesting.
I have a 2018 Civic hatchback. I tuned that thing from the get go after break in period. Everything is stock besides the tune. Bought the car brand new. Today, it's sitting at roughly 110k miles. Still shifting smoothly after all the abuse i put it through. The key is to change your cvt fluid more often depending on your driving habit. I change my cvt fluid every 20k. Sometimes i do wish it has more torque but it's a civic afterall.
Although a small sedan like the Jazz, with its less powerful engine, may not experience significant issues, the CVT transmission failure is more pronounced in vehicles like the Turbo-engine Civic and CRV. Even with proper maintenance, the steel belt has been known to snap, prompting many owners to replace it with aftermarket steel belts, which are generally more robust.
I hate the fact they have removed dip sticks from transmissions . At least with a dip stick you can check if the fluid was changed or not, now you just have to take the workshops word that they changed it.
What are people supposed to do when the torque converter or axle shaft seals on a new conventional or CVT transmission starts leaking? Take the wheel off and remove a side plug in the transmission once a week? It's insane. It will end up totaling cars.
@@JohnSmith-pl2bk It should be illegal. We need minimum repairability standards for cars and appliances. Starting with mandatory engine and transmission fluid dipsticks.
@@gregorymalchuk272 Every vehicle I own has a dipstick. But I am old and intolerant of stupidity... So I don't buy modern vehicles that treat owners/drivers like they are idiots.
@@gregorymalchuk272 Actually, yes, that's what you gotta do. I had a leaking axle seal in my Camry, but I had to do the fill hole/overflow straw every time I topped the fluid off. Ridiculous.
I had a 2017 Honda Accord. When I traded it in there was only 58,000 miles on. During my ownership of the vehicle I had the transmission fluid changed at the dealership twice. In my opinion the fluid needs to be changed every 30,000 miles or so.
father was trying to replace his exhaust manifold (had a hole in it :P) and noticed the three bolts connecting it on the exhaust side were rusted near completely through. two bolts came out with very careful force applied, while one broke off leaving the screw portion attached... about 13-20 hours of buying tools, testing, and welding later, my father got the second socket wrench welded on good enough to pull it out. whole process took about 2 months if I remember correctly (was paying off the last functional car at 2x than before, so like 1k a month for a 2011 Lexus with 100k miles).
Toyota (AISIN) are kings of the CVTs but Honda’s are a respectable 2nd. From what I know, generally there’s no major issues/concerns with Honda CVTs. Time to time you’ll see a failure but that depends on maintenance history and driving style.
funny thing is, where I live Honda's CVT are well known for snapping off, slipping etc-etc, so much so that Jatco CVT's seems more reliable. sure, we sh*t on Jatco, but Holy the number of Hondas having their CVT slip here, before reaching 5 years old is concerning.
I’m not a fan of the CVT, but compared to when VW and Nissan first launched them, they have all around improved and they do churn out excellent mpg. The key is to only put them in low hp / torque cars, change their fluids no more than every 50k, and in general drive it like it’s a car you want to take care of. I still prefer the manual or a traditional TC auto
We don't now the history of this transmission. We don't know how it's cared for etc. For example, we have a lot of Chrysler products in our family (my dad is a mechanic), even all the models that are known to have transmission issues because of Chrysler's weak transmissions, they all have survived long lives of 300K or more because they were well maintained and not abused. (Spinning tires in the winter, pulling tree stumps, towing a heavy trailer etc.) I'm a firm believer in that any transmission can last if it's kept cool and the fluid is changed regularly. Even the terrible Jatco's from Nissan / Mitsubishi. (External cooler on these, and frequent fluid changes makes them last. Also using Amsoil CVT Fluid and not the Dealer stuff. Huge difference in longevity).
There are many people who drive by flooring the gas pedal when accelerating, and slam on the brakes to stop as late as possible.They rev up to like 5000 every time they go. I told a guy once he shouldn't drive like that. Ideally you should coast as much as possible and not GAS/BRAKE/GAS/BRAKE. And that the engine should not be revved higher than 3000 unless absolutely necessary to accelerate quickly. He looked at me like I had two heads when I told him that. "My entire family drives like this". I told him he wasting money on gas and he is literally killing his car. Be nice to your cars. Cars are the center of many people's lives and the sad part is, most people don't see it that way.
@@corkbulb2895 I know what you mean, my aunt drives like she's competing in a race and she floors it on a cold engine, and is constantly downshifting/up-shifting because of how she throttles the accelerator. She can't understand why she always needs 1-2 transmissions in the cars life yet I have never needed to replace my transmission in any vehicle I have owned, despite keeping them 2-3x longer than she does.
I’ve heard mechanics on here say never change the oil because it can make a good functioning transmission malfunction. But after seeing your video I think the fluids should be changed.
Thats more down the line of I have a 10 year old car with ~120k + miles and I have never serviced it before. Under 100K miles its probably fine. Especially in the 70s/80s cars with over 100k on the original transmission fluid was seen as a gamble for a shop to flush it out.
That's only once you've gone "too far", and the suspended clutch material in the fluid is helping everything continue to work. But that's been the big problem with CVTs, is unlike conventional automatics which were extremely forgiving for missing maintenance to the point where some people just never change it, with CVTs it's not that way. It really should be done.
The 5 speed autos had issues with the lubrication system to where they came out with a jetpack that took fluid from the outlet side of the ext trans filter and plumbed into the fill hole. It was a special adapter that allowed fluid to run back in there. The baya trans which started in 2005 to 07 was fixed internally The previous years were the dreaded maya. The 4 speed in the 99 tl and accords didnt have this issue.
110k so far on my 2016 Civic LX, changing the CVT fluid every ~30k miles. I’ve seen examples with 200k+ on there, but I don’t expect these to last 300k even with fluid changes.
04:00 it's like that so you can remove the oil pump without having to disassemble the rest of the transmission first - if it was just an oil pump problem you could fix without even having to remove the transmission from the car
@@Conservator. possibly - with the pump gone the torque converter prob wouldn't work (effectively), the forward drive clutch wouldn't be engaged and the variators wouldn't have pressure on them, enough to cause significant wear anyway.
All the mixing machines I use to service had CVT drives BEFORE VFDs were and option for speed variations NOTHING but trouble then and everything is run by a VFD NOW
2008 8th Generation 2.4. Done close to over 270,000 km ( almost 170,000miles). My 5 speed auto shifts like dream now after I used a Malaysian made polymer additive to smoothen out gearshifts esp the kick from 2nd to 3rd every morning. Engine doesn’t use up even a drop of oil between changes
Back in the early 1980s i had a daf car with one of the first cvt transmissions.It had spring loaded taper pulleys and two fairly wide drive belts.Very simple but it could accelerate faster than much bigger engined cars.Likewise the cvts on modern scooters are very simple.These seem very complex.
It really seems like the "lifetime fluid" thing is a scam. Honda's own service manual for my car specifies a 40,000 km/2 year "severe" replacement schedule for the CVT fluid, and you can bet that's what I follow (and it's more like every 25,000 km in practice as I don't rack up much distance in a year).
Hahahaha the underwear joke STILL cracks me up to this day. I've been a fan of your channel for like 5 years or so. Under a different account that is. I even started my own mechanic channel.
Interesting, Japanese Type 10 (10式戦車, Hitomaru-shiki sensha) main battle tank features CVT. This enables it to have the same max speed either forward or reverse. Top speed: 70 kmh.
I've replaced a ton of these! And last week a 2024 Civic came in on the tow truck, customer states vehicle will not move in any gear. 396 miles on it and the trans is toast.......😅😅😅😅😅
Excellent vid, thanks! I just bought a 2025 CR-V (because the local dealers didn't have any RAV4's) and am sketched about the CVT. So, I DID buy the extended warranty so if anything happens to basically anything in the next 10 years, it's covered for a $100 deductible. I'd heard/read elsewhere about the importance of changing the fluid, and this vid pretty much confirms it. It also shows me, from the burnt fluid causing issues with the clutches, that the rest of the CVT seems to hold up pretty well since I don't see any other damage. So, it looks like if you don't abuse it and change the fluid regularly, that they can be reliable, if a little more fragile than a real tranny.
I want to see the variator shaft to compare it to the failure-prone nissan (jatco) type where the balls or ball tracks are too weak metal and wear out.
As an ex Honda tech, the hrv had a terrible cvt and I think a few more than I know, I’d love to see one out of a civic, accord or crv to see how it went bc that’s a real mystery to me
My lady neighbor, has not changed their CVT oil for over 200k miles in their 2005 1st gen honda fit. God knows what's inside in that poor transmission. Got a chance to drive it when I helped her change the batteries, so far it still drives fine. I told her to change the car's CVT fluid and she said "what the hell is a cvt fluid?" Not sure if she followed my advise, but getting a chance to drive that car, I can confirm, honda cvt's are definitely reliable lol
@@FunkatronicDingus And tell us how much CVT transmission repair cost and most mechanics don't have the knowledge or skill how to repair a CVT transmission. Good ole automatic transmission is way better......
I'm privileged enough to have my grandparents gift me their 2018 honda crv on my 18th birthday. I'm super greatful for it however, they give me the most unreliable car in their fleet so now i have to make sure that cvt don't go out in the next few years or they'll be pisssed, but that cvt oil is so damn expensive 😳😳
It's expensive for a fluid, but much less than repairs or a new vehicle. Build an ethic of rigorous maintenance in your youth, and it will pay off for a lifetime. Even with flaws, most Hondas are very reliable machines.
Im curious if any auto company ever made pure electromechanical actuated CVT? so instead of oil pushing and engaging things around, it is just actuators and motors.
@@speedkar99 yamaha and suzuki both have electric servos for their cvt on NMAX and brugman scooter, so its not really a nouvelle idea. But i guess it doesn't scale up really well for heavier duty application.
This is sad. Our daughter has a 2018 and we just bought a 2024. Love these cars even if they don't have lots of power. I have changed her CVT fluid several times, each time using a 3 step drain and fill process. Drain and fill it once, drive it around a bit, then drain and fill again. Do that three times. Sure it's probably overkill but I don't care. I'd rather change it too often than not often enough. The same goes with engine and rear differential oil, brake fluid, and power steering fluid. EDIT: I know these HR-V's have no power steering fluid because they're electric, but for my other cars (two Honda Accords) it gets changed often.
I know a lot of people dont change oils in their translations at all and would probably comes to transmission failure .As for this time in your video it was for sure failure went down because of oil unchanged and burnt
so...metal-on-metal between the belt and the varietor?? alright. my next car is the new 2025 Honda Civic hybrid which doesn't have a transmission, thankfully. I've never owned a CVT and I really don't believe I ever will. I know Honda recommends a fluid change interval of 80-160k km (50-100k miles). I find that's stretching it quite a bit (no pun intended). On any transmission, manual, DCT, torque converter or CVT, I wouldn't go past 100k km. You want it to last? Take care of it. Another thing I heard, and someone correct me here, CVTs have a weakness of operating in traffic, stop & go, where clutches keep engaging and disengaging. Much like anything with clutches, they wear out the more they're used, but in a CVT they're seemingly built significantly thinner. Also the belt. I don't understand how a belt can operate like the one shown and not experience tremendous wear. It just doesn't seem like a good design to me.
@@JohnSmith-pl2bk i mean, not quite the same. Chain saws are like bicycles where the chain is being spun by sprokets; the chain isn't depending on surface contact friction for power transmission. In the CVT, the chain has a contact patch with the metal cone.
Thanks for the excellent tear-down of the Honda CVT. Whomever designs these things must be geniuses, with so many parts and channels etc. Will you be able to re-assemble it? Can you show us when you do that please? You are a little difficult to understand. Canadian accent perhaps? Here is my main question: does the CVT fluid have to be replaced regularly? And how often? My car's handbook says not and there is no filler cap, only a dipstick. My Mechanic says not. What is the correct interval?
Can you make a video about how the torque converter interacts with the rest of the CVT? Couldn't the clutches in the transmission (any transmission) be controlled electronically directly instead of using fluid pressure? Why isn't that a thing?
We have a 2014 Honda Accord with a CVT. It’s been bullet proof since brand new. Looking at the video, you could tell the owner(s) never serviced this transmission.
honest question here, if the clutch disks were the main fail point can I just buy new original parts or good enough after market parts and reassemble and fix it?
It comes down to labor. You have to remove it and disassemble, and then there's the "while you're in there" things to change like gasket, seals, filter and fluid. It'll add up to the same cost of putting a rebuilt one back in there.
What’s it mean when you put in D but the car is revving, same with Reverse and L, my civic can’t move the engine just revs out when throttle is applied ? Is my torque converter worn ? Or what ?
Lot of wearable parts like the clutch, metal belt etc. Toyota eCVTs are the best with a planetary gear set and two electric motors. No wonder Honda moved away from this CVT and went with Mitsubishi invented hybrid system (that also got two clutch packs but better than what is shown in this video).
My parents have a 2013 Accord with 210,000 miles. They are aggressive drivers and are quite hard on it, but sometimes they will service it at the dealer instead of express oil, where they change the transmission fluid. The car still drives the same way it did when it was new. Out of all CVTs I've driven, I find Hondas to be the best
CVT is garbage.
Exceptional video. I like how you completely disassemble the transmission while explaining in a clear and straightforward way the function of the various parts without wasting any time.
I also like the occasional joke that you mix in. 👌👏
Glad you like my video style and catch my sense of humor. Thanks
That’s precisely the reason that I subscribed a few months ago! The excellent work continues. Thank you.
Self taught DIYer. I had my 2015 CRV CVT belt shatter at 265k miles. Since then I’ve been looking for thorough videos on transmissions. This channel is gold.
Glad you like my video style, I love taking stuff apart, that's how I learn too!
Transmissions are fascinating. Some ideas are great till they fly apart. Not a fan of cvt but wasn’t a fan of automatic trans till recently when I got weirdly into how they worked and different units are good.
not sure about nowadays, but CVTs were notorious for failing in bad ways... not with little or normal usage mind you, just that when they go, they go. Saw the most interesting use of a CVT being on an F1 car, but it would rev at max RPM the entire track, which would require a new belt after about every lap... did set an amazing course record though that was like 11 or so seconds faster on its first try. Also used this automatically adjusting shock absorber setup that looked super advanced. Don't know much about cars, but have finally started taking an interest in them lol.
" belt shatter at 265,000 miles!" How many km is that? I would consider that a pretty good performance.
265000m
424000KM@@hubertbreitenstein4461
If the manual says change the fluid at 60, you better be changing it at 30!!
Lol fanboy
@@mann_idonotreadreplies I’m a pretty big fan of not buying a new CVT at 100k
Well i replaces mine on 20k km or 4x changing the engine oil and replaced the filter every 40k km
I do mine every 20,000 miles. Lots of short distance driving
Why?
Never gave it much thought until I saw your videos as to how much energy goes into just one component on one car. Whoa...mind boggling. Thank you 99!
I think the biggest issue with CVTs is the average Joe in the U.S. and Canada aren’t even aware that there’s a difference between a regular automatic transmission and CVT. A friend of mine bought a new Nissan Sentra so I had to explain to him why not to floor the vehicle from a standing stop. Same thing applies with unnecessary hard acceleration when you’re already at a good speed.
CVTs aren’t designed to take the same abuse as regular transmissions.
Toyota solved that problem in their CVTs. They have an acceleration gear that hard connects to the output at launch or passing. This takes the strain load off the belt. It deactivates when not needed. I believe their first generation of CVTs had problems before this solution was implemented.
@@telcobillyyeah, the D-CVT
I trust Honda cvt 100%. I would gladly replace my Camry 8 speed trans with a good Honda cvt...
@@telcobilly Toyota also built the CVT/belt portion less durable than normal to cut costs because they knew it wouldn't have the added strain of initial acceleration due to the physical first gear. Also, some owners on the forums have commented on the annoying jarring/lurching sensation as the system switches between physical first gear & the CVT.
@@telcobilly The Nissan Rogue has a acceleration gear. It's fairly obvious if you look at the RPM. I never feel a need to "pass" or overtake another vehicle so I don't know about racing it, which you should not do anyway.
I put 140,000 miles on a 2014 Civic with a CVT. I don't like CVTs generally, but this one hasn't given me any problems yet. Important note is, I drive mine mostly on the freeway (to the office and home, so its 90% + freeway driving) and I change out the CVT fluids fairly often.
Good info Thanks Man !!
How often do you change cvt fluid for honda ?
mine has 150K; I work with the car, so I do a lot of short distances, the first time I changed the oil, I thought it's gonna be black and full of sludge, but it wasn't the case, it was golden brown, and it looked like still in good shape.
I don’t think you can blame Honda for this one…that fluid was never changed
Lifetime fluid ;)
@@RayanMADAO ""Lifetime fluid"". I think they updated the owner's manual recently. The manual of my new civic recommended changing the transmission oil every 30k but the dealer told me it was "Lifetime fluid".
@@berkeliumklifetime fluid is the biggest fucking scam ever
@RayanMADAO it was a lifetime fluid apparently....just a shortened lifetime since no maintenance
That’s what Honda told the customer to do
They said it was a “lifetime fluid”
Nothing beats the older 5 speed automatics honda used to make. 185,000 miles all I've done is change the fluid and filter and I still can barely feel it shift. Still get 30 mpg with k series 2.4L DOHC.
The 5 speed in general before the baya trans was used because it was a lubrication flaw. The 4 speed in the 99 didnt have this issue.
My 2005 Accord reached 300,000 miles; I liked that the transmission had a drain bolt, I wonder if their CVTs have a drain bolt? Honda even has front and rear center jack lift points, with a stamped arrow pointing to them. That Accord was a good car, still drove smoothly but did consume a lot of engine oil. I sold it because the tan leather interior looked like crap, and I just simply wanted to drive something else. Note to self, only get a black interior from now on.
@@corydonrose6109 I have a Nissan Sentra with black interior. Looks great. Almost 300K miles on it.
I don't disagree, however I have 1 08 crv that has the torque convertor shutter issue and now I hear its pretty widespread issue.
My 2013 civic with 5 speed auto currently has 345600 miles. Trans still shifts perfect with regular fluid changes. Motor or trans never had one issue. Still drive it daily to work 140 mile round trips 5 days a week.
Not mechanically inclined, but even I found the video informative and easy to follow, and it gave me a clear idea of how CVT works which no other video I've seen did, thanks!
We own a 2014 Honda Accord with one of these transmissions. It’s been bullet proof since new (10 years and counting). I could tell the owner(s) of this unit didn’t take care of it.
You are a genius. Nobody should know this much about a transmission. I’m impressed.
I'm glad you learned something
Bought 2015 Honda Jazz with 1.5litre engine and CVT gearbox.
It’s going smooth and strong touch wood.
i just imported the same Honda Fit 1.5 hybrid with CVT with 105,00KM on the clock from Japan. It will arrive at Dublin port in February I will change the transmission oil + filter every 1 1/2 year like my other CVT cars. I do that myself, as I have little trust in mechanics. How often have you been changing the transmission fluid and (2) filters (there is the small cylinder one on top and the one inside that pumps the oil up from my research)?
If this is anything like my accord's CVT, that hole is just a fill plug. Our car has 140K on it and the CVT has never given us issues. I bought it certified used at 60K and did a drain and fill at around 110K. Still runs fine. I'll likely do another drain and fill within the next year because it doesn't drain everything out.
Exactly. We own a 2014 Honda Accord and it never gave us any issues. It’s been 10 years of non-stop service and it’s still as smooth as when new. One thing I’m noticing in this video is that the owner(s) of this unit never took care of it. I’d like to know how old this unit really is.
@@MrSamPhoenix
He mentioned 300k miles
I have a 2022 Accord Sport SE with the 1.5 turbo and CVT. I just drained and refilled the CVT fluid for the first time at 18k miles, and it came out dark amber and with a pungent odor (the scent filled the garage). The magnet had collected a small amount of shavings, but nothing that seemed unusual. I am sticking with the Honda specified HCF 2 fluid during the powertrain warranty period. Out of the bottle, HCF 2 is almost clear and for some reason does not instill much confidence - it just feels so thin and watery. It is ludicrous to believe this fluid is lifetime, and with noticeable degradation in only 18k miles, I'm going to stick to a 20k drain and refill schedule. By the way, the procedure is easy with a reasonably accessible ribbed rubber fill plug from the top. If you can change your own oil, you can change your Honda CVT fluid.
Wow Great Info James !! No way it can be lifetime !! Yeah thats the Great Sales Pitch from Honda America ! Seemingly Honda Japan says change it every 30K miles ! Hopefully that just the burn in off a new Vehicle, Hoping it clears after that !! I think you are very wise with your schedule !!
As a Honda tech, I find it funny that you pick the ONLY CVT transmission we have problems with. Also that recall for the HRV is just to see if its already failed, and if it hasn't there's just a software update. To be fair I can't remember the last time we replaced a transmission in an HRV since doing the updates.
Eat shit does it hurt you lol
Change your fluid often, and don't forget your cvt filters. There are high mileage cvts out there, and those are from people who did drain and fills every 30k, and did the filters. Especially the cartridge type filter.
Very good advice. I just changed my cartridge filter at 170,000 km.
@@scarboroughnorthchange filter and fluid every 30k miles.
Also, check to see if your Honda CVT has internal filter on the valve body. I have 2012 Honda Insight EX and the internal filter, cartridge filter, and oem honda cvt fluid was change at 48K miles with 3 CVT fluids changes in last 15K to flush out any leftover CVT fluid. Please check for the correct CVT fluid capacity when changing for DIY. The car shifts a lot smoother and my mpg went up. There are many honda dealerships website with a part dept page-to search to see if your Honda CVT transmission has internal filter. Perform a 4 wheel alignment once a year to get better tire wear and better mpg.
@@edwardclark8808 do you replace the filters in the dealer shop?
Honda CVT.
• HCF-2 Fluid change every 30k miles or 2 years.
• Warner filter (cartridge type) replaced every 60k-80k miles.
(The warner filter is upper side of the CVT gearbox and doesn't need to drain the CVT fluid to replaced it.)
• Rear differential fluid, 1st change at 15k miles then change every 60k miles.
I had an Auto repair shop for 45 years before I retired. The thing we found with any CVT regardless of manufacturer was lack of maintenance. We recommended fluid change @ 30,000 mile intervals and for the customers who followed our recommendations The CVT's held up great and for those who decided that maintenance was a waste of their money the CVT's failed. A fluid change on a CVT is a costly maintenance item because the fluid for them is very expensive and we always used the manufacturers OE fluid. Many manufacturers di not even have a recommended change interval or if they did it was sometimes recommended at around 100.000 miles. That is just simply not nearly often enough to make them last for the life of the rest of the car.
People got too used to neglecting their 4 speed automatics. CVTs are far less forgiving. But man, do they every crank out the fuel economy.
2015 Honda accord, one owner, 160k miles, trans fluid and filter change once at 100k miles, & drive it like a grandma. Still drives like new. Most reliable car I’ve ever experienced. Only thing I’ve ever had to replace was pcv valve at about 100k. I recommend a Honda accord to anyone and everyone. My father in law in PR has 2010 or so crv. He has used and abused that thing, uses it to load up construction equipment. Treats it like a damn work truck. Bitch won’t die. It has over 200k miles on an island that is only 100x35 miles and is all full of mountains, hills and pot holes. Honda knows how to build dependable vehicles.
Those don't use a tiny turbo engine mated to an unrepairable CVT.
Great Info Man !! Too True !! But also That car don't wanna die cause its lovin that great Salsa Music over there man !
I have been changing my 2018 CRV CVT oil every 3000 miles. Hope it’s life keep long as much as possible
All the best. Change the fluid and don't tow
I like driving cars with cvt transmission. My first experience with this type of transmission was in the 1960’s when I drove DAF cars and vans. They had synthetic belts. I used these for about 10 years. Later in my life I bought a Toyota Yaris cvt. I bought it new and used it for 12 years and did 100,000 miles with no trouble over that time. My current car is Toyota Yaris Cross hybrid with e-cvt I hope I this car will give me the same reliability as the old one. This one I have only had for a few months.
e-cvt don't belt like the one on the video so you have nothing to worry about
This guy really knows what he's talking about. I'm amazed at what a pro he is, like a cardio surgeon describing the workings of your heart, only more interesting.
I have a 2018 Civic hatchback. I tuned that thing from the get go after break in period. Everything is stock besides the tune. Bought the car brand new. Today, it's sitting at roughly 110k miles. Still shifting smoothly after all the abuse i put it through. The key is to change your cvt fluid more often depending on your driving habit. I change my cvt fluid every 20k. Sometimes i do wish it has more torque but it's a civic afterall.
Your cvt break down videos are very detailed. Love it! Understanding power!
Although a small sedan like the Jazz, with its less powerful engine, may not experience significant issues, the CVT transmission failure is more pronounced in vehicles like the Turbo-engine Civic and CRV. Even with proper maintenance, the steel belt has been known to snap, prompting many owners to replace it with aftermarket steel belts, which are generally more robust.
I hate the fact they have removed dip sticks from transmissions . At least with a dip stick you can check if the fluid was changed or not, now you just have to take the workshops word that they changed it.
What are people supposed to do when the torque converter or axle shaft seals on a new conventional or CVT transmission starts leaking? Take the wheel off and remove a side plug in the transmission once a week? It's insane. It will end up totaling cars.
@@gregorymalchuk272
Part of the plan of the parts sales team...
@@JohnSmith-pl2bk It should be illegal. We need minimum repairability standards for cars and appliances. Starting with mandatory engine and transmission fluid dipsticks.
@@gregorymalchuk272
Every vehicle I own has a dipstick.
But I am old and intolerant of stupidity...
So I don't buy modern vehicles that treat owners/drivers like they are idiots.
@@gregorymalchuk272 Actually, yes, that's what you gotta do. I had a leaking axle seal in my Camry, but I had to do the fill hole/overflow straw every time I topped the fluid off. Ridiculous.
Reassembly is simply the reverse procedure for disassembly.
I had a 2017 Honda Accord. When I traded it in there was only 58,000 miles on. During my ownership of the vehicle I had the transmission fluid changed at the dealership twice. In my opinion the fluid needs to be changed every 30,000 miles or so.
father was trying to replace his exhaust manifold (had a hole in it :P) and noticed the three bolts connecting it on the exhaust side were rusted near completely through. two bolts came out with very careful force applied, while one broke off leaving the screw portion attached... about 13-20 hours of buying tools, testing, and welding later, my father got the second socket wrench welded on good enough to pull it out. whole process took about 2 months if I remember correctly (was paying off the last functional car at 2x than before, so like 1k a month for a 2011 Lexus with 100k miles).
Maintenance is EVERYTHING
Dunno. My wife's 2015 CRV has 120k on it and the trans has been flawless. She does maintain the car religiously.
Nice, but 120k is young
So, she prays that it keeps working?🤣🤣
Toyota (AISIN) are kings of the CVTs but Honda’s are a respectable 2nd.
From what I know, generally there’s no major issues/concerns with Honda CVTs.
Time to time you’ll see a failure but that depends on maintenance history and driving style.
funny thing is, where I live Honda's CVT are well known for snapping off, slipping etc-etc, so much so that Jatco CVT's seems more reliable.
sure, we sh*t on Jatco, but Holy the number of Hondas having their CVT slip here, before reaching 5 years old is concerning.
I’m not a fan of the CVT, but compared to when VW and Nissan first launched them, they have all around improved and they do churn out excellent mpg.
The key is to only put them in low hp / torque cars, change their fluids no more than every 50k, and in general drive it like it’s a car you want to take care of.
I still prefer the manual or a traditional TC auto
What VW has a CVT?
We don't now the history of this transmission. We don't know how it's cared for etc. For example, we have a lot of Chrysler products in our family (my dad is a mechanic), even all the models that are known to have transmission issues because of Chrysler's weak transmissions, they all have survived long lives of 300K or more because they were well maintained and not abused. (Spinning tires in the winter, pulling tree stumps, towing a heavy trailer etc.) I'm a firm believer in that any transmission can last if it's kept cool and the fluid is changed regularly. Even the terrible Jatco's from Nissan / Mitsubishi. (External cooler on these, and frequent fluid changes makes them last. Also using Amsoil CVT Fluid and not the Dealer stuff. Huge difference in longevity).
There are many people who drive by flooring the gas pedal when accelerating, and slam on the brakes to stop as late as possible.They rev up to like 5000 every time they go. I told a guy once he shouldn't drive like that. Ideally you should coast as much as possible and not GAS/BRAKE/GAS/BRAKE. And that the engine should not be revved higher than 3000 unless absolutely necessary to accelerate quickly. He looked at me like I had two heads when I told him that. "My entire family drives like this". I told him he wasting money on gas and he is literally killing his car. Be nice to your cars. Cars are the center of many people's lives and the sad part is, most people don't see it that way.
@@corkbulb2895 I know what you mean, my aunt drives like she's competing in a race and she floors it on a cold engine, and is constantly downshifting/up-shifting because of how she throttles the accelerator. She can't understand why she always needs 1-2 transmissions in the cars life yet I have never needed to replace my transmission in any vehicle I have owned, despite keeping them 2-3x longer than she does.
It's wild that I wrote a similar comment, then scrolled down and read this.
Those Chrysler CVTs are just something special
@@YourFriendlyHoodVampire They aren't actually made by Chrysler, they are made for Chrysler by JAT CO. Same as the makers for Nissan.
Agreed. It it seems like Honda had a trend with the failing belts. At least it's not as bad as Nissan's
I’ve heard mechanics on here say never change the oil because it can make a good functioning transmission malfunction.
But after seeing your video I think the fluids should be changed.
Thats more down the line of I have a 10 year old car with ~120k + miles and I have never serviced it before. Under 100K miles its probably fine. Especially in the 70s/80s cars with over 100k on the original transmission fluid was seen as a gamble for a shop to flush it out.
That's only once you've gone "too far", and the suspended clutch material in the fluid is helping everything continue to work.
But that's been the big problem with CVTs, is unlike conventional automatics which were extremely forgiving for missing maintenance to the point where some people just never change it, with CVTs it's not that way. It really should be done.
The 5 speed autos had issues with the lubrication system to where they came out with a jetpack that took fluid from the outlet side of the ext trans filter and plumbed into the fill hole. It was a special adapter that allowed fluid to run back in there. The baya trans which started in 2005 to 07 was fixed internally The previous years were the dreaded maya. The 4 speed in the 99 tl and accords didnt have this issue.
2013 Honda AccordCVT with 225,000 miles always do trans fluid maintenance.
Nice. How many changes have you done?
I bought it new. So every 30,000-35,000 miles it gets done.
Excellent presentation!!!
Excellent video!
I don't know why the cvt oil would be black, when I worked at Honda as a mechanic the oil change intervals for cvt's were every 15k miles
Can you do a quick garden tour?
Lol nah. My garden did not do that great this year. Some squashes, Cucumber, celery.
110k so far on my 2016 Civic LX, changing the CVT fluid every ~30k miles. I’ve seen examples with 200k+ on there, but I don’t expect these to last 300k even with fluid changes.
It's a miracle it works at all. So glad I bought a manual.
240000 miles, Civic hybrid 2014 ... running like new ❤
I wonder if they make coolers for c. V. T's like like with Regular transmissions and wouldit make them last longer
Yeah the same ATF coolers should work. They use them on Nissan's since they overheat alot.
04:00 it's like that so you can remove the oil pump without having to disassemble the rest of the transmission first - if it was just an oil pump problem you could fix without even having to remove the transmission from the car
But would a transmission survive any oil pump failure?
@@Conservator. possibly - with the pump gone the torque converter prob wouldn't work (effectively), the forward drive clutch wouldn't be engaged and the variators wouldn't have pressure on them, enough to cause significant wear anyway.
@@te71se Thanks!
Oil pump isn't supposed to be a service item 🙄
All the mixing machines I use to service had CVT drives BEFORE VFDs were and option for speed variations NOTHING but trouble then and everything is run by a VFD NOW
If you want your CVT to last for a very long time - change CVT fluid as regularly as you change your engine oil.
They never changed the fluid. All you have to do is change it with factory fluid every 30K to 50K miles. It will last a very long time.
Cool story bra
When you come back from deployment of 18 months to see "your newborn child" - @ 0:30
Bruh im dead!!!
Read you comment and i was like "huh?" Clicked the timestamp link and the audio just goes "its black" and i die laughing
Legendary
why wake up like this bro lol. chill out
2008 8th Generation 2.4. Done close to over 270,000 km ( almost 170,000miles). My 5 speed auto shifts like dream now after I used a Malaysian made polymer additive to smoothen out gearshifts esp the kick from 2nd to 3rd every morning. Engine doesn’t use up even a drop of oil between changes
Literally a shadetree mechanic! 😊
Back in the early 1980s i had a daf car with one of the first cvt transmissions.It had spring loaded taper pulleys and two fairly wide drive belts.Very simple but it could accelerate faster than much bigger engined cars.Likewise the cvts on modern scooters are very simple.These seem very complex.
Honda and Toyota atleast make there own . A lot of people don't keep up on maintenance either
I had a 2019 CR V. Never had an issue. The 10 speed transmissions are problematic.
I've never seen anyone so knowledgeable on so many brands and components, awesome and funny too. The wife's toothbrush always makes me laugh.
Please source an Audi 7speed S-tronic 0B5 trans in future for us...and thanks for the consistent work❤. Your biggest follower from Botswana🇧🇼
It really seems like the "lifetime fluid" thing is a scam. Honda's own service manual for my car specifies a 40,000 km/2 year "severe" replacement schedule for the CVT fluid, and you can bet that's what I follow (and it's more like every 25,000 km in practice as I don't rack up much distance in a year).
It's for the lifetime of the transmission. Not the vehicle.
Hahahaha the underwear joke STILL cracks me up to this day. I've been a fan of your channel for like 5 years or so. Under a different account that is. I even started my own mechanic channel.
Glad you enjoy the little humor 🤣
Interesting, Japanese Type 10 (10式戦車, Hitomaru-shiki sensha) main battle tank features CVT. This enables it to have the same max speed either forward or reverse. Top speed: 70 kmh.
Great video
Thanks
I've replaced a ton of these! And last week a 2024 Civic came in on the tow truck, customer states vehicle will not move in any gear. 396 miles on it and the trans is toast.......😅😅😅😅😅
Uh oh.
Keep us informed please re cause..
I presume it's warranty work?
Honda's CVT are generally thought to be as some of the best most reliable transmissions.
Until 100k miles
@@GF-mf7ml true story... My friends 2013 Accord with a CVT is approaching 300,000 miles on the clock with no issues.
@GF-mf7ml my CVT has 124,000 miles and it's still going strong. Change my fluid and filters every 30,000 miles.
Excellent vid, thanks! I just bought a 2025 CR-V (because the local dealers didn't have any RAV4's) and am sketched about the CVT. So, I DID buy the extended warranty so if anything happens to basically anything in the next 10 years, it's covered for a $100 deductible. I'd heard/read elsewhere about the importance of changing the fluid, and this vid pretty much confirms it. It also shows me, from the burnt fluid causing issues with the clutches, that the rest of the CVT seems to hold up pretty well since I don't see any other damage. So, it looks like if you don't abuse it and change the fluid regularly, that they can be reliable, if a little more fragile than a real tranny.
I want to see the variator shaft to compare it to the failure-prone nissan (jatco) type where the balls or ball tracks are too weak metal and wear out.
Great video, very interesting
Glad you learned something
As an ex Honda tech, the hrv had a terrible cvt and I think a few more than I know, I’d love to see one out of a civic, accord or crv to see how it went bc that’s a real mystery to me
Which generation HRV is this CVT and the terrible ones from?
@@Blank00HRV = CVT.
Humans invented this for the sake of complexity
I want to see a CVT on a turbo rotary engine. Wouldn't have much take-off. But should be good for high speeds
Top knowledge as always.
It would be cool if you could make a detailed video about how Secondary Air Injection works
My lady neighbor, has not changed their CVT oil for over 200k miles in their 2005 1st gen honda fit. God knows what's inside in that poor transmission.
Got a chance to drive it when I helped her change the batteries, so far it still drives fine. I told her to change the car's CVT fluid and she said "what the hell is a cvt fluid?"
Not sure if she followed my advise, but getting a chance to drive that car, I can confirm, honda cvt's are definitely reliable lol
Tell her that her blinker fluid needs replacing too...🤣🤣
Most likely, the gasket between the seat and the steering wheel needs to be replaced.😊
I'll never buy a CVT regardless of manufacture. My 2015 manual hardboy Nissan pickup will possible outlast me
100% agreed. I won't even trust so called reliable Toyota. CVT are expensive to maintain and super expensive to repair.......
"Manual hardboy" does not sound like an automotive term.😁
@@crow_2k11beatsbydre8 Buddy, all you do is swap the fluid at regular intervals like any other transmission.
@@FunkatronicDingus And tell us how much CVT transmission repair cost and most mechanics don't have the knowledge or skill how to repair a CVT transmission. Good ole automatic transmission is way better......
I have a Corolla 2010 with CVT. No issues, just change the fluid every 50k. Maintenance is not expensive mind you.
I'm privileged enough to have my grandparents gift me their 2018 honda crv on my 18th birthday. I'm super greatful for it however, they give me the most unreliable car in their fleet so now i have to make sure that cvt don't go out in the next few years or they'll be pisssed, but that cvt oil is so damn expensive 😳😳
Change your fluids!
And filter every 30k miles that's the reality of CVT. Or buy used Honda 5 speed automatic and never think about it.
@@GF-mf7mlpretty certain there is not a filter in the CRV trans
It's expensive for a fluid, but much less than repairs or a new vehicle. Build an ethic of rigorous maintenance in your youth, and it will pay off for a lifetime. Even with flaws, most Hondas are very reliable machines.
CVT Fluid is cheap. Transmission replacement is expensive. 💰💸🤑
Change the oil, people!
Im curious if any auto company ever made pure electromechanical actuated CVT?
so instead of oil pushing and engaging things around, it is just actuators and motors.
It would be way too heavy and unreliable
Thats an interesting concept. As interesting as the free valve from konisgeg
@@speedkar99 yamaha and suzuki both have electric servos for their cvt on NMAX and brugman scooter, so its not really a nouvelle idea. But i guess it doesn't scale up really well for heavier duty application.
as always very educative. regards
Many thanks!
This is sad. Our daughter has a 2018 and we just bought a 2024. Love these cars even if they don't have lots of power. I have changed her CVT fluid several times, each time using a 3 step drain and fill process. Drain and fill it once, drive it around a bit, then drain and fill again. Do that three times. Sure it's probably overkill but I don't care. I'd rather change it too often than not often enough. The same goes with engine and rear differential oil, brake fluid, and power steering fluid.
EDIT: I know these HR-V's have no power steering fluid because they're electric, but for my other cars (two Honda Accords) it gets changed often.
Thanks for sharing a great video
I know a lot of people dont change oils in their translations at all and would probably comes to transmission failure .As for this time in your video it was for sure failure went down because of oil unchanged and burnt
I didn't notice any CVT filter in the video. Did you miss it?
There are two. One in the front and one in the pan.
A lot of people don't even know a transmission has fluid.
Alot of people don't know Tesla's have fluid too
Honda love to use clutches on all their transmission, including eCVT hybrid.
so...metal-on-metal between the belt and the varietor?? alright.
my next car is the new 2025 Honda Civic hybrid which doesn't have a transmission, thankfully. I've never owned a CVT and I really don't believe I ever will.
I know Honda recommends a fluid change interval of 80-160k km (50-100k miles). I find that's stretching it quite a bit (no pun intended). On any transmission, manual, DCT, torque converter or CVT, I wouldn't go past 100k km. You want it to last? Take care of it.
Another thing I heard, and someone correct me here, CVTs have a weakness of operating in traffic, stop & go, where clutches keep engaging and disengaging. Much like anything with clutches, they wear out the more they're used, but in a CVT they're seemingly built significantly thinner. Also the belt. I don't understand how a belt can operate like the one shown and not experience tremendous wear. It just doesn't seem like a good design to me.
Stop and go with clutches are referred to " dual clutch " transmissions.
Chains are metal on metal...and they need lubrication...but continue to work for years????
@@JohnSmith-pl2bk i mean, not quite the same. Chain saws are like bicycles where the chain is being spun by sprokets; the chain isn't depending on surface contact friction for power transmission. In the CVT, the chain has a contact patch with the metal cone.
Every CVT transmission I've ever had I've always changed out the oil every 10k miles.
what is the cause of the blockage? is the fluid just degrading and becoming viscous or is there something else getting mixed in there somehow?
Thanks for the excellent tear-down of the Honda CVT. Whomever designs these things must be geniuses, with so many parts and channels etc. Will you be able to re-assemble it? Can you show us when you do that please? You are a little difficult to understand. Canadian accent perhaps? Here is my main question: does the CVT fluid have to be replaced regularly? And how often? My car's handbook says not and there is no filler cap, only a dipstick. My Mechanic says not. What is the correct interval?
Some teenager gave his first car pure hell 😂
Friend, you are gold! ❤
You restore the gearbox?
❤Thank you very much for this lesson publisher
Changed my transmission fluid at 30k miles on my CRV.
Can you make a video about how the torque converter interacts with the rest of the CVT? Couldn't the clutches in the transmission (any transmission) be controlled electronically directly instead of using fluid pressure? Why isn't that a thing?
Goes to show that a CVT is a CVT, no matter who makes it. Not even Honda can fight CVT entropy
We have a 2014 Honda Accord with a CVT. It’s been bullet proof since brand new. Looking at the video, you could tell the owner(s) never serviced this transmission.
There's some CRV owners have CVT failed under warranty because of heavy foot. CVT need more fluid and filter change then automatic.
Hybrid eCVTs aren't CVTs.
Have 2006 Honda City with CVT and it still running well and give the least headache
They're stubborn. They don't want to surrender belt drive transmissions lol. Even more stubborn is very CVT owner 😂
That is incredibly complex. No wonder cars are so expensive.
It sure is a neat engineering marvel.
honest question here, if the clutch disks were the main fail point can I just buy new original parts or good enough after market parts and reassemble and fix it?
It comes down to labor. You have to remove it and disassemble, and then there's the "while you're in there" things to change like gasket, seals, filter and fluid.
It'll add up to the same cost of putting a rebuilt one back in there.
You didn't give year miles how often did the service it?
My 2020 accord has 141000 miles. Cvt no issues so far
You are the best!
What’s it mean when you put in D but the car is revving, same with Reverse and L, my civic can’t move the engine just revs out when throttle is applied ? Is my torque converter worn ? Or what ?
Honda does make a decent CVT
Lot of wearable parts like the clutch, metal belt etc. Toyota eCVTs are the best with a planetary gear set and two electric motors. No wonder Honda moved away from this CVT and went with Mitsubishi invented hybrid system (that also got two clutch packs but better than what is shown in this video).