Howling sound from my Jeep Patriot transmission (CVT)that just went out of warranty

I just had this in the dealer that sold it to me (Meador Chrysler in Fort Worth, Texas) right before the warranty ran out (I just bought it last month 8/15/10) and everything supposedly checked out good. It had always had a slight sound that I could here but I just wrote it off being part of the Goodyear Wranger tires that it came with. At about 36700 on the 30th day of ownership, Sunday 9/12/10 the sound has gotten about 4 times louder and is extreme distracting while driving. It is at its worst about 40. (Listen behind the rumbling) The sound gets loudest at 0:32 and 1:00. It is so distracting it almost caused me to wreck the other day.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Jeep
• patriot
• cvt
• cvt2
• dodge
• caliber
• compass
• transmission
• jatco
• Meador
• Dodge
• Chrysler
• sergio
• marchionne

[stonent]

Update... At 50,970 miles the transmission finally failed. It would take about 20 seconds to accellerate to 10 miles an hour and the check engine light had several codes set. P700, P0746 and P0777. So had to get it replaced. Transmission is nice and quiet now. Unfortunately it wasn't a free repair. Without the letter to Chrysler the repair would have cost me $5200. They knocked it down to 750.

[stonent]

@jorge10928 Yep and they don't fix Jatco CVT's :(

[babyb360]

Wow!

So what was the problem?

[stonent]

@babyb360 The dealer said the transmission is going out. They are wanting $1800 dollars to fix it. That is crazy I was on the 30th day of ownership whenI brought it up there. The manager actually said "Well why don't you call your credit union and see if they'll give you some more money"

[chickenfarm09]

After seeing all these cvt failures on youtube, I'm convinced that they are big joke.

[Kesmithstl1]

our dealership told us it was Internal Bearing Failure, and we have to replace the unit and program controller at a cost of $3900.

[hpcwsd]

Hopefully you got this fixed for FREE !... otherwise I would have told the Jeep Dealer that you will use this video with their name on it ! lol

[Invisiblepanda]

you only had a 30day warranty?

[jorge10928]

@stonent don't take it to the dealer... you can go to a bunch of other small mechanics that give great warranty and fix it for a cheaper price...

[Arvnled]

@stonent the same thing had happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I had one year warranty and when i first brought it in they said it was the 4wd pcu that needed replacing so they did that, and the noise was still there. so i brought it in again and they had told me it was the transmission and replaced the whole thing. It was all covered under warranty so i was happy.