Quote Originally Posted by Dr.Kamiya View Post
Interestingly the Subaru CVT which seems to be pretty reliable for local use has started seeing a bunch of failures in the US.

Maybe because of they tend to drive more miles? I understand there is a torque converter in the CVT that prevents the main belts and pulleys from spinning when the car is not in motion.

Sound of a failed Subaru CVT transmission:

2011 Outback 2.5i, CVT transmission, 166k miles - am I screwed? : /r/subaru

Subaru 2013 Outback Transmission Noise | youtube
Personally, other than the questions of whether or not they do proper CVT fluid changes be it time based or mileage based, I think in the US since they tend to do lot of interstate travel with higher top speeds than ours, they tend to do a lot more hard acceleration cycles compared to how we drive here to keep up with traffic. And seeing how they tried to wring the car out to try to immediately get to the speed limit when merging (hence the complaints of the CVT drone being prevalent among US Consumers), that could be a contributing factor. But that's my hypothesis/thinking on the matter.