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Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:07 am
Keep one thing in mind here...
If you read forums for any car make/model, a large amount of of the posts are usually complaints or other issues. If you were to base your purchase solely on this information, you would never buy any car... because all you read about are the complaints!
These forums are just one tool for researching, you should talk to other owners, test drive the vehicles... both new and used, tour your local dealership(s), talk to the service department staff, even check out several dealerships. Once you have gathered all the information, you can make an informed and non-biased decision on whether to buy a particular vehicle or not.
One final note... perspective:
Nearly 50% of Nissan vehicles sold in North America come equipped with a CVT transmission. For 2008, that would mean 50% of the 838,361 vehicles Nissan sold in the US came with a CVT... that's over 400,000 vehicles! Worldwide, Nissan sells in excess of 1 million CVT transmission equipped vehicles a year. The few transmission failures reported here (Maybe 30-40?) are a tiny speck compared to number of transmissions sold. If the CVT was such a failure, Nissan would have went out of business by now on warranty recalls alone.
Good luck!