If its Subaru remanufactured its probably fine for what its worth. I would only go with their rebuilds though. Warranty I wouldn't know. 6 months sounds reasonable to me. On May 29, 2016 11:18 AM, "Zos Xavius" <zosxav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jesus that's expensive for a transmission swap. I didn't know the outbacks > were using CVTs now. I wonder why it would fail so early. The Prius CVT can > hit 200k pretty easily. > On May 29, 2016 11:12 AM, "Mark C" <pdml-m...@charter.net> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
