Originally Posted by Miller88
Do the pathfinders suffer from the chronic CVT problems that the rest of the lineup does?
From a fella on the Pathfindertalk site:
"This issue has never been the belt/chain, its the pressure control valve in the CVT Oil Pump, which regulates the flow of CVT fluid contracting and expanding the pulleys that the chain is attached to.
The Valve is made out of aluminium and scores easily and sometimes even seizes due to wear from metal particles in the CVT fluid, which then creates the domino effect, pulleys to expend contract correctly, chain slips and bounces, creates more wear with metal particles entering the cvt fluid and gradually it gets worse and worse.
There are after market valves which are made from titanium, to fix this, but you need to basically tear down the whole CVT to replace this $20 part. Hence why Nissan did F.. All about it. There has been new oil pumps designed, to do away with the pressure control valve altogether, and suspect these are in the newer builds, like 17 onwards as this pump was late 2016 design.
It's anyones guess if Nissan started updating the pumps in the reman CVTs for the ones prior to this or if they even used titanium valves, guess we won't know unless they disclose it."