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01-07-2022, 07:17 PM #6201I drink it up
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Bobby's used car lot and Free Carfax
Used to own an 05 or 06 freestyle. Can confirm available AWD. Shared lots of parts with Volvo, including haldex AWD. CVT was….ok. I actually did like the car, but I wouldn’t put high miles on it. Replaced the engine (ex wife ran it out of oil) and replaced the AWD pump and unloaded it.
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01-07-2022, 08:14 PM #6202Registered User
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CVT is a non starter for me.
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01-07-2022, 09:07 PM #6203
Got a hot one I need a vin run on:
2012 Forester JF2SHABC3CH418669a positive attitude will not solve all of your problems, but it may annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
Formerly Rludes025
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01-07-2022, 10:47 PM #6204
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01-07-2022, 11:12 PM #6205
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01-08-2022, 02:29 PM #6206
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01-08-2022, 09:40 PM #6207
For starters, they’ve been horribly unreliable.
Sent from my iPhone using TGR ForumsHowever many are in a shit ton.
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01-08-2022, 09:42 PM #6208
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01-09-2022, 07:44 AM #6209Registered User
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CVT's suck to drive, the noise sucks, the throttle response sucks and not being able to downshift to use engine braking really sucks.
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01-09-2022, 10:14 AM #6210
I’ve got an Outback 3.6 w/ CVT. It’s got 6 “gears” programed that can be manually downshifted. Drives like a regular automatic. Longevity TBD.
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01-09-2022, 10:47 AM #6211Registered User
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Some do, the 2012 Crosstrek I had was like that (but still sucked). The Forester loaner car I had in the spring of 2020 had no way at all to manually change gears and it bugged me. It had programmed shift points to make it feel like something was different but it was mushy and vague and it didn't have any kind of kickdown feature for downhills so it would coast out to silly speeds unless I rode the brake. For the most part the car just droned along between ~2300>3400 rpm unless I flogged it. Meh. The Nissan rental cars I've had over the years were similar and equally blah.
Thoughts on Sienna AWD minivans?
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01-09-2022, 10:50 AM #6212
Mebbe I'm missing something but it sounds like you're renting commuter crapcans and expecting high performance shift points?
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01-09-2022, 11:58 AM #6213
Heh.
Regardless I'm curious to hear reviews of CVTs because I was looking at a 2018 Forester yesterday with 25k miles. Guy wanted 32 grand but he couldn't be botwhered to move the car out of his cramped, dark alley garage so I could look at it in the light. Fucking tool. Those trannies do sound extra raspy on startup I have noticed. At least I think that's what the noise is.
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01-09-2022, 12:00 PM #6214Registered User
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No, but what experience I have with cvt's has been pretty terrible, and knowing a bit about it from doing over 60k miles with one I have a hard time thinking that it could be that much better on a more expensive vehicle. Sure the shifts can be programmed better and can feel crisper and with paddles you can control it to some extent but they will always have that steady rpm, drone effect because efficiency is really what they're all about. The Infiniti FX model I rented in 19 was the same feeling but the programming was a little better, not good enough that I would want one but, for most people it's probably fine.
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01-09-2022, 12:28 PM #6215I drink it up
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01-09-2022, 12:28 PM #6216skier
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01-10-2022, 11:10 AM #6217"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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01-10-2022, 12:13 PM #6218
Gravitylover - Buy something like this:
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...8962318047070/
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01-10-2022, 12:22 PM #6219
I bought an Impreza with CVT for my wife and thought it was fine. I guess you have to drive one yourself to make you own opinion. Although, I would not buy one for myself. So, there...
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01-10-2022, 12:25 PM #6220
There is nothing more high performance than a rental car. Just ask us how we know.
Wait, what? You went in person to go see a car and the seller wouldn't pull it out for you? Were you allowed to sit in it or start it?
"No lowball offers, I know what I have" comes to mind.I still call it The Jake.
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01-10-2022, 01:34 PM #6221
He reluctantly said he "could" pull it out if I wanted. He had it all cleaned up and we have snow/slush on the roads so he did not seem overly keen about me test driving it. Yeah it was weird. Seemed like a very nice Forester though, just more than I want to spend so I did not press the issue.
It was so cramped in this garage that just to get in and start it I had to squeeeze in the door. And he acted worried I was going to ding the door on his piled up shit when getting in. Lol
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01-10-2022, 01:54 PM #6222
Rule #1. Buy the seller. That's why used car dealers generally suck. They know nearly nothing about the history of the vehicle (Carfax is nearly worthless) So if you are buying from the owner directly and they are fucking weirdos or sketchy then the vehicle could also be sketchy.
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01-10-2022, 02:02 PM #6223I drink it up
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I dunno, man. I want to buy the car from the weird guy who doesn’t like to pull the car out of the garage in case it gets some road salt on it and who figures in the mileage to the oil change place within his 3K mile oil change interval and doesn’t allow anybody under the age of 8 in his vehicle and religiously puts a sunshade in the window when it’s parked outside and never engages more than 50% throttle and would you Please Keep Your FEET ON THE PAPER DEALER MATS?
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01-15-2022, 06:21 PM #6224Registered User
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Hey Bobby I have another YV4982DL3A2108809 Thanks
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01-16-2022, 07:55 AM #6225
2010 VOLVO XC60 3.2
VIN: YV4982DL3A2108809
4 DOOR WAGON/SPORT UTILITY
3.2L I6 F DOHC 24V
GASOLINE
FRONT WHEEL DRIVE
This CARFAX Report Provided by:Jailbreak Motors
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