While just driving along the highway Thursday my 2011 Subaru Outback
made some odd noises and suddenly lit up what looked like every warning
light on the control panel. I pulled over and wound up getting it towed
to the nearest dealership. On Friday they gave me the bad news - at just
78,000 miles the CVT transmission was shot. Needs a complete replacement.
The shop that has the car quoted me $11,000 to replace the CVT with a
new unit and just under $10,000 for a factory re-manufactured one. My
local shop quoted me $7,700 for a Subaru remanufactured CVT. It might be
more since I don't know if that includes the 6% sale tax on CVT itself.
A local independent shop gave me a rough estimate of $4,400 for a used
one,installed. All of the places figure about $1000 labor, everything
else is the cost of parts plus sales tax on the parts.
The only firm estimates I have are the ones from the first place. I got
the news from them at 3 PM Friday, before the holiday weekend. The local
places are quoting typical rates, they have not even seen the car yet to
give me a firm estimate. I don't know the warranty on the used
transmission at this point either, just that it has 25K on it.
I do have a call into Subaru customer service and they have agreed to do
a review of this under their goodwill program, so maybe there will be
some relief there, but the car is out of warranty and no extended coverage.
My concern with a used CVT, though, is that they seem to be pretty
complex and high tech devices. I have heard that they are actually built
in clean rooms. So I'm wondering if pulling one off a wreck would be a
good idea.
Any reason NOT to do a used CVT? Thoughts would be appreciated. My
first task is getting the car towed back here next week.
Mark
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