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In Partial Defense of the CVT - 2014 Nissan Rogue SL AWD Long-Term Road Test
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In Partial Defense of the CVT - 2014 Nissan Rogue SL AWD Long-Term Road Test
The CVT in our 2014 Nissan Rogue has garnered some negative commentary so far. But it might not be as bad as it seems, depending on how you drive.
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Take your car to the dealer in or out of warranty and they will swap in a reman.
Don't get me wrong, I love a good talented specialty repair shop but they are getting to be more and more rare.
And they will continue to do so until they are gone. It's cheaper to employ someone who can change assemblies than it is to have someone trained and equipped to repair them. With all of the pressure to be cheaper then the shop down the street the only logical end to the race to the bottom is that they all eventually fail. Right now there is no shortage of shops and people who can do the easiest work, in fact there are too many fighting for the same shrinking pool of work. The impact of that has broken the career track to take a new technician and grow him/her into being the technician that you need to diagnose and repair the more complicated systems. This culture has really been in place for the last twenty to thirty years and as the senior technicians leave, there isn't a generation behind them to replace them. To make matters worse it takes decades to grow that new technician, so even if all of the other problems went away tomorrow it would be fifteen to twenty years before the next generation of techs are truly service ready. But the wage and benefits issues aren't going to go away until the trade fails to the point that outside intervention becomes the only solution.