rev up your engines, Toyota Recalled 3,400 Toyota Corolla hatchbacks with the CVT
transmissions, on these 3400 vehicles Toyota's replacing the transmission and
a torque converter, because they have a problem that they can fail and they're
replacing all shooting matches on 3400 of them, now if you remember a while back I made
a video on why I don't like CVT transmissions well this is kind of proof
of the pudding here, even though they're Toyota's known for a long life, even they
messed up with their CVT transmissions in these Corolla
but from my experience and my customers experiences, it goes a bit deeper
than just these 3400 2019 Corolla hatchbacks, because the 2014 to 2017 with
the CVT transmissions have whatToyota calls a special service campaign jsd now
they call it that instead of a recall and really they're splitting hairs here
it's pretty much the same as a recall but there's so many of those that there's
no way Toyota's going to say they're gonna replace the transmissions and
torque converters in every single one of those millions of cars, so man oh man are
they hedging their bets on that one, you know they're not going to openly
say oh gee we have to replace all these cvts because they have abnormal wear and
you know hey what is abnormal wear you know, they leave themselves a lot of
wiggle room here to say what they're gonna fix for free and what they're not
gonna fix for free, and in this respect it reminds me of problems that Chrysler
had with a bunch of their 300 luxury cars, they had transmission problems and
they attempted a software update and they said, oh that fixed the shifting
problems with the software update, well guess what I had customers with those
Chrysler 300s and they weren't shifting right, and they took it into Chrysler for
the software update and they still didn't shift right, most of my customers
that was a few years back they got rid of them
anyways they said I'll never buy another one of those Chrysler pieces of junk I
learned my lesson, but Toyota a company that's known for quality, hey
my old celica's automatic transmission that has 240,000 miles on it and it still shifts like
a dream, they're supposed to make really solid reliable stuff not things like
this, and interestingly enough it is only the ones that have CVT transmissions
they don't have any problems with the manual transmissions, they don't have any problem
with the conventional automatic transmissions, it's only these CVT
transmissions, now if you look at the history of it
Toyota was one of the later large manufacturers to start producing these
CVT transmissions in regular cars not in hybrids, and perhaps they should have
waited longer till they perfected them, obviously they have not perfected the
CVT technology in these things, now strangely enough the CVT transmissions
in the Toyota Prius their hybrid flagship, they don't occur all that often
but I think a lot of that might have to do with its using a dual power of the
engine that's a gasoline four-stroke engine it doesn't put out
that much horsepower, and the electric boost motor where these cars that
they're having problems with now, they of course are only getting power from one
source the gasoline engine and these gasoline engines have a heck of a lot
more horsepower than a Toyota Prius gasoline engine has, when you consider
that they were only actually recalling 3400 toyota Corolla hatchbacks and not
hundreds and hundreds of thousands more that also have CVT transmissions and
instead their talking about those in terms of a special service campaign jsd if
that isn't doublespeak I don't know what is, they're basically covering their own
rear ends with legalese and they get to the side whether, oh is the transmission
too worn, has it damaged the inside of the transmission, and that they reprogram
that to supposedly check for wear on stuff, hey in order to check for serious wear
you'd have to take the transmission apart, and start measuring stuff
micrometer and you know they're not gonna be doing that unless the
transmission has actually has failed, and here's some more of their legalese
that'll explain the whole thing so you can really understand, in the end of this
jsd campaign thing that they have, it says resolution of existing powertrain
malfunctions are not covered as part of the special service campaign and should
be diagnosed and repaired under warranty if still covered, if the vehicle is not
covered by warranty the customer is responsible for the cost of diagnosis
and repair, and as I said earlier Chrysler tried that with their 300
vehicles, I had customers with them that they had
the reprogramming done and then they said it's all fine and dandy but the
cars never shifted right again and when it's talking about extra wear, okay
then a thing wears out when it's out of warranty they're just gonna say, oh well
now you got to buy another super expensive transmission, why do people buy
Toyota's because they're known for legendary long life with little repairs
I think they should go a little bit deeper with these other Corollas too
rather than just say, oh well you know reprogram it and we'll check for wear
people don't understand the checking for wearing these things it's a real big
deal it isn't some simple thing that can be done in a few minutes, a long period of
time they'll perfect them and they won't have any problems, hey who knows one way
or the other, but my advice is I would stay away from buying one of these with
the CVT transmission period I wouldn't care what year it was, pretty much the
same advice I give people about hybrids, I never advise anybody to buy a used
hybrid because of their high cost to repairs they age, so I mean if you're the
type of person say you're gonna lease a corolla or your gonna buy one maybe a
hundred thousand miles or something and then get rid of it you're probably
perfectly safe, but if you want your car to last like my long line of Toyotas and
Lexus in the back, I'd stay away from a Toyota CVT transmission myself, if
they're replacing CVT transmissions and torque converters on 2019 models this is
2019 right now when I'm making this video
who knows if those things are going to hold up over time either cuz they're
brand new, don't buy stuff that's brand new buy stuff that's tried and trued
it's another reason I love buying used cars, cuz if you
got a used car at seven eight years old and it still runs good hey that's Johnny that
thing was solidly built, it stood the test of time and it's still purring along
they have no problems with any of the Toyotas that have manual transmissions
those things are bulletproof they can run forever, a lot of people don't like
driving a manual but they don't break, and Toyota makes ones that can last, I've see
them go a million miles on some of them, but the CVT transmissions I've never seen
one at a million miles I've never seen one that even had more than 150,000
miles on it before it broke down, I'm out to tell everybody the truth about
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