300k on a 2013 Altima 2.5 S, every part that broke and what it cost

3,450 for a transmission in a car worth maybe 4,500 is the exact thing that keeps me from buying anything with a cvt. you had the money and you spent it because the rest of the car was good. a lot of people in that spot walk away and the car goes to the auction.

asking honestly and not to argue: at 171,000 did it go all at once, or did you get a warning? my wife needs a car in the next month and every reliable thing in her price range has a belt and pulleys in it.

i turn wrenches at a toyota store in charlotte, so discount my brand opinions accordingly, but the QR25 is a known quantity in every shop. two things show up: it uses oil after about 200,000, which you have, and the chain guides get noisy on cold start, which you also have. neither one is a reason to do anything to a car at 302,000 except keep the oil above the low mark.

the part of your post people should copy is the receipts. when a customer hands me a folder i can tell them whether to spend 1,200 on a car. when they tell me the last owner "did everything" i am guessing, and my guess costs them money.

reading this from western new york where the engine is never what kills the car. my last altima was a 2012 and it had a perfectly good motor in it when the shop would not put it back on the lift at 183,000, rear subframe mounting area was gone. the state inspector here fails you for rust through on anything structural and he is right to.

so 302,000 is a southern number. up here a car that sees road salt from november to april is on borrowed time at 150. the brake lines go first, then the fuel lines, then the body mounts.

just came off a twelve and i am sitting in the parking garage reading this instead of driving home, which is a habit i should break.

2016 sentra sv, 141,000, original cvt, and i am the one who is supposed to be scared of these. i have had the fluid done at 30, 60, 90 and 120 at an independent that uses the nissan fluid and charges me 190 for it. no shudder, no whine. my miles are easy though, 30,000 a year and most of it is the 101 at two in the morning with nobody on it.

in phoenix the thing that actually dies on schedule is the battery. two and a half years, every time, no warning. i keep the receipt because the warranty is prorated and i have used it twice.

i added your list up because that is what i do. 6,065 in big repairs over the 261,000 miles you have put on it, which is 2.3 cents a mile. people pay more than that for an extended warranty that would have argued with them about the compressor.

what i want from you is fuel. do you have a lifetime average, or just the shoebox? a 2.5 altima on two lane roads at 60 should be doing better than the epa number and i never see anyone post real figures for one.