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rev your engines even though you may not know much about it or even think about it, the transmission you choose for your car can be one of the most important decisions you make. I'm going to give you all the information so you can make a decision. A wise choice now, cars, the name always means something, the transmission bolts to the back of the engine and transmits the power to the wheels. A very simple idea, right? You want a transformation that is reliable and that gives power the way you want, the reason why many people like these automatic transmissions because they have gears, these have six actual forward gears.

Now contrast six-speed automatics with many modern cars that have what are called CVT transmissions. Now those transmissions get a little better gas mileage, but they don't have real gears. Many people don't like them, they say I step on the accelerator. I feel like it has a four horsepower Evinrude engine and it just makes noise and crawls a

long

. There are all kinds of CVT transmissions now that have been changing. Over the years, but at least so far they haven't proven to be as reliable as regular good automatic transmissions, the six speed automatics with the gears that

cost

more money than CVTs, so of course they go to cvts They're cheaper to make and are more fuel efficient, but, for example, you can still buy a 2023 Toyota Camry.

They now have eight-speed automatics instead of six, but Toyota still makes them. They got shot at a lot because people Like those automatic transmissions, they like real gear shifting and they like it so much that some of the modern continuously variable transmissions have fake shift points, but they are below the real gears. It's just an illusion presented by the computer. so it acts like it's shifting gears when in reality there isn't a single gear inside the transmission now the new RAV4s still offer an automatic transmission

this

one is a six speed the new ones are eight speed those are the normal cars if you buy a hybrid or a RAV4 plug-in hybrid that have CVT transmissions, why is an internal combustion gasoline engine connected to an automatic transmission?

Automatic transmissions can only have one input and that is the engine, the engine sends the power to the automatic transmission. which then detects that it is a wheel, in

this

case it is all-wheel drive, so underneath there is a transfer case that allows some of the power to go to the rear wheels, but it is still an automatic transmission with real gear, so if it has a hybrid gasoline or diesel engine. going into the transmission but you also have an electric motor going to the transmission and in most systems the only system that can accept two inputs to the transmission and then one output to drive the car is a CVT transmission.

Toyota really started the ball rolling with the Toyota Priuses which to this day still have a CVT transmission just like the RAV4 hybrids and the Camry hybrids now of course I can't say anything about the lifespan of the ultra modern CVG transmissions , they haven't been around

long

enough, but from my point of view Experience the previous generation of CVTs, they won't

last

as long as a real automatic transmission with gears. Now, like I said before, a lot of people don't even think about the car's transmission and I ask them what kind of transmission they have. I don't know, I got into driving, I drive the car well, that choice

will

affect you on the back end if you get the wrong transmission, if you want to keep your car for a long time, now I like the older 2007.

Matrix design because although it is four speed it has a dipstick you can check the fluid you can change it easily drain it maintain them they

will

last

longer change the fluid it is a Toyota ah you can change it every 50 60 000 miles you won't have any problem if you have a weaker car , you might want to change it every thirty thousand miles, but go from that 07 Toyota to this 2018 RAV4, there is no dipstick and a lot of times companies say you never need to change the transmission fluid, it's for life, Floyd, well, do you? what does that mean?

I'll tell you, I couldn't figure it out myself, so I asked a Toyota engineer. I told him what do you mean by LifeTime liquid. Well the fluid is good for the life of the transmission and I think that if you don't change the fluid the life of the transmission will decrease, it will break and then you will have to get another transmission or spend many thousands of dollars to rebuild it and let me tell you the The truth is that almost no one knows how to reconstruct these things correctly. More than a third of the rebuilt transmissions that are made, their firing did not have to be re-done a second or third time, they are very complex, not many know how to do it. fix them well and since CVT transmissions are a bit weaker than these normal geared automatics, I would recommend changing the numb fluid every 30,000 miles.

If you want to take a chance on a cheaper transmission, poorer design, no, I wouldn't have changed. a lot and in that case listen to me don't mix anything buy the same fluid that comes with the original equipment fluid no matter what it

cost

s because when you drain a modern one like this you are only left without two or three quarts of fluid When you drain it, the vast majority it's still in, so you're mixing the new with the old. You want to have the exact same fluids with the exact same additives or you may have problems in the future, you have to do it because if you don't, when it breaks, they'll just say, well, now it's out of warranty, so you're going to have to pay all this money. .

That's why you need to understand about your automatic transmission and, speaking of transmissions, what are you going to do? What to do with your car, this is a six-speed, this thing, believe it or not, can easily tow over three thousand pounds. Look, people were told that going cross country was no problem yesterday. A guy brought me a Subaru, right, it was a Subaru Crosstrek that he had. a CVT transmission and I said, are you going to tow something with it? He said no, I'm never going to tow anything in this case. He didn't care that he wasn't a racing driver.

He said I like the smooth CVT. It didn't have great acceleration, it was a Subaru with no turbo and no GDI, so it didn't have that much horsepower, it ran perfectly fine, he didn't care much, but I told him, you know, that's how it was. to last as long as this RAV4 because the RAV4 was here all week a guy went on vacation and left here so I told him why did you buy the Subaru instead of the RAV4 to which Scotty responded well. I tried his Air Force. I love them, but I don't have the extra fifteen thousand dollars the RAV4 cost compared to the Subaru he bought, so of course money rears its ugly head, we live in a world where you have to pay for things right now.

I like Toyota Corollas, right, but? I started with CVTs on them, now Camrys and RAV4s, they still have regular automatic transmissions. Yes, I was going to buy a car. If someone hits one of my cars, they will never wear out because they are Toyotas and a lot of them, but people. I drive like crazy these days. I have so many people bringing me cars that I said, why did you get that car? I love my old Honda I love my old Toyota, but we have T-Bone, we were rear-ended, there are so many crazy people out there There are those who don't know how to drive well, so if I were to replace it I would probably buy, like the new eight-speed Camry, an engine gasoline with an 8-speed automatic.

In a way, I'd be moving away from Toyota Corollas, you know? They are great cars because I am not a fan of CVTs. Now those aren't the newest Toyota CVTs and I haven't seen any real problems with them, but I don't really like the way they drive, which is why people like the gears. that shift and that's why some CVTs have fake gear shifts programmed in when they don't have any real gears, it's just some kind of computer illusion that makes you feel like you're driving an automatic with gears when you're actually not. A four wheel drive, whether you buy it or not, it will cost you more, you will get worse gas mileage because there is more friction and get this, if you are cheap like me, these four wheel drive systems are all computational.

Driven, you get a bad tire. All-wheel drive systems must have exactly the same tire size on each wheel, including track wear, because computers make all kinds of measurements to make them work correctly if you have different size tires. Different treads and everything you can use on the inside, so every time you have a bad tire, one of these babies it's time to buy four of them and I'm a cheapskate. I hate to do that if you put snow tires on that 07 Matrix in the front. because it is front wheel drive and no snow tires are fitted to this all wheel drive or F4.

The Matrix will drive better in the snow because it has snow tires and even though it is AWD you still have to put Snow Tires on it, if you want to drive well it is not AWD, jump in and drive, so let's take this RAV4 for a spin and let's see how it works now. This Toyota has a wonderfully engineered 6 speed. You can put an automatic in it or you can put it in a mode where you can shift it yourself, since you've seen we're in first gear and if you want, you can push it up, shift it into second gear.

You can see it's pretty fluid now that most people are lazy. and they're just going to start it and it'll be running all the time, shift itself, what's up, it's computer programmed to get the best gas mileage and power, but if you want more power you can do it manually. What is acceleration? you can see it reduced, nice smooth chefs, people like these automatics because they still get pretty good gas mileage because it has six speeds, but they also have the responsiveness, they don't have the lag of many cvts, you step on the gas, they dodge, you have To look at that zip, a CVT wouldn't accelerate like that and let's face it, people get used to something they like to drive it like that, okay, you look at the speedometer, it looks like an analog speedometer, just when you drive down the road you see the El speedometer starts moving but it is actually a digital odometer that receives a digital signal then goes to the head of the speedometer where there is an electric motor and then moves it.

It's not mechanical anymore, but it feels like it is and that's one of the reasons some CVT transmissions are programmed to mimic shifting, even though they aren't actually shifting because they don't have any gears in them, so you get an automatic. normal six-speed like this RAV4, let me tell you, it's a smooth driving experience to get good gas. mileage for their size and they tend to last basically forever if you just change the fluid every 50,000 miles or so, now I hope you have learned a little about transmissions so you can buy the right vehicle and maintain it correctly so you don't buy the car that has the transmission incorrect for both your driving habits and your wallet, so if you never want to miss another of my new car repair videos, remember to ring the doorbell abroad.