So the wife's compass took a dive with 55,000 miles on it.
A couple of weeks ago she was driving home and the transmission temp light came, by time she got home it was off.
So I thought maybe it was the transmission fluid, and go out to check the level. No-go as there are no "user serviceable parts" on the CVT, and that includes no dip stick.
So this past Thursday she is driving home and the trans temp light comes on again, but this time the transmission shuts down on her, right in the middle of traffic on I-15. Went for 70 MPH to 20 MPH in seconds. SO she pulls off to the side of the road and calls me. I tell her let it cool down for a while and start it back up, and if the light stays off try to make it home. So she gets home, and we make on appointment with the dealer to get it in the next day.
We take it in and leave it with them and I asked if he would call or email me if it just need servicing, because I usually do all of that on our vehicles.
He send me this email the next morning;
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Hello Alvin, no need to worry about transmission servicing. The vehicle appears to have an internal transmission failure.
Now today, Monday, we call to find out what they need to do and how long it will take. Service rep says they have to replace the transmission, and it's going to take four or five days to get a new one from JATCO, and apparently they (JATCO) wants the bad one back.
So now I go online and find on Caliber, Patriot, and other Compass forums that this is becoming a very apparent problem. These CVT transmissions are somehow over heating and failing, with less that 60,000 miles.
Anyone here having problems with theirs?