Recent content by swirling_vortex

To be honest, I want to get a car with a stick anyway. I learned how to drive one after I purchased the car already. Someone on another message board had a CVT fail in a 2015 Corolla right after the 100k mark a few months ago. The dealership quoted them $7k to fix it. An independent trans shop...

Not many. It only has about 27,300 miles. The problem is that these issues are so intermittent that they can't be replicated. I just drove it to and from work without an issue. So who know what it is. But I don't have the confidence that it's going to last as long as a conventional automatic.

I've experienced three incidents with what might be the transmission over a 6 month period in my '14. All happened at low speeds, so I can't confirm if it is the CVT or not, but there's something that goes awry from time to time. The first time it happened, I was moving at around 20 mph when I...

Geez, 6300 dollars? That's rough. Did they even offer to repair the transmission or is that not possible because it's a sealed unit?

I was referring more so to the A/C setting and setting it manually with the fan speeds. If you turn on A/C or turn it off and on with A/C still selected, it flips it to recirculation. It's very annoying. I can't confirm the temperature being an influence because I only use A/C when it's hot out.

My main issue is that whenever the A/C is turned on, it automatically flips to recirculate the air. The funny thing is that in the manual it recommends to flip the A/C to outside air to prevent odors from appearing. I never liked the Auto function either as it never gets the temperature right...

Any updates? Having high rpms with no acceleration can be an indicator of the transmission slipping. Hopefully this isn't a sign of things to come.

Can't say I experienced this issue. But I have a '14, so perhaps something was changed recently. I owned a '93 Prizm and an '01 Corolla before I got my current car, but I don't think the new one is that bad. With fuel and safety standards always increasing, something has to be cut to save...