Hi

My daughter has a 2017 Lancer ES with 85,000 KM in it. The tranny went out on it. The dealer, after much delay, got the Ok to replace it under warranty. Thank god as a new one, just the tranny, is $15,000 Canadian to buy. It will have a 1 year replacement part warranty.

I’ve read that this CVT has had issues and doesn’t seem to last long.
Will a brand new one be any better than what was in it?

If she treats it nice and I service the crap out of it, literally, will it have some reasonable longevity?
Would you dump the car and get something else? In all other respects it’s a decent car but if I can’t trust the tranny…

Thanks for the help.

 

Certainly not familiar w/the CVT issues as i drive a Lancer w/the full manual trans

Why not run it as is? After all its a brand new trans. If it does fail wonder what the re-build cost is?

 

Before it was approved under warranty I looked at my options. A garage that specializes in transmissions said they can’t rebuild them as Mitsubishi won’t see them the parts. Parts might be available from the US but they won’t be cheap. Used trannys are available but who knows what your getting and they take lots of labour $ to install.

One person told me he has seen these specific Mitsubishi transmissions fail as early as 20,000 miles. But I did not know how often they fail this quickly. And I don’t know if the new one that will go in my daughter’s car will be any better. Would be nice but Id have to see hard proof to believe it.

My local mechanic says he knows of people putting vehicles (he didn’t say what brands) new enough that they are still making payments, on blocks in their driveway as they can’t afford to have the CVT fixed.

This would be nice to avoid.

 

I see your point of view for sure. Great that you have looked into the re-build. Hopefully someone on the boards here w/come CVT experience can chime in

 

The CVT transmission is for light driving.
A simplified image is two cones with a belt between them. When the engine is at max efficiency the belt moves up and down the cones to provide max torque and increase speed.

Now with that said, just like any belt, they can slip if too much torque is applied.
"Neutral Drops" aka hard acceleration off the line wreak havoc on the belt.
Hard acceleration, while the computer tries to limit, will also stress the belt.
There's also clutches that wear like an automatic. These are much lighter due to the belt taking the brunt of the force.

The benefits of the transmission are city economy because they can keep the engine at ideal running power.
The issue of the transmission is that most people are use to driving a manual or an automatic.
These transmissions are much more robust due to the design in nature but can be less efficient.

It runs along the same issue of hybrids. Look how you are suppose to drive a Prius for max efficiency.
Its a different piece of technology and needs to be operated slightly different than what we are use to.

Also, the fluid change is a must according to the book. Not changing that is equal to never changing your engine oil.

 

I purchased A a 2017 Mitsubishi Lancer special edition seven years ago and had zero transmission problems. I changed the oil every 30,000 miles and I now have 210,000 on it and a transmission still strong.