Scotty, check this out. This guy has a 2019 Camry with already 212k miles because he’s a Lyft driver. His transmission went out at 170k miles. If this were a Nissan or GM product, I’d be impressed that it lasted that long but by Toyota standards, that’s not very good.
https://imgur.com/gallery/PXqtIIO
https://imgur.com/gallery/y7ExPMs
Follow up question : should I get Car Shield ? Is it worth it ?
If the trans has been abused and not maintained 170K is actually impressive. Car Shield is a ripoff. You're better off taking the money you'd send to those con artists aside in a separate bank account to be used for possible repairs.
Everyone's quality has dipped. Plus if he is a Lyft driver then it is essentially a taxi and taxis live a hard life, just like rental cars and police cars.
Again, seeing how had he drives it he should be changing his fluid every 35-40k. If only once then probably why it went out combined with hard driving
Regarding Carshield, no don’t get it. Plus, what you mention is only one data point. See below:
https://carkiller.com/scottykilmer/qa/is-carshield-worth-it/#post-46519
Well, there's several variables left unaddressed, including service history. Any vehicle will break down if there's a sub-optimal service history.
Those are hard miles. I'm impressed it handled it that well considering most Lyft/Uber drivers are hard on their cars and skimp on maintenance, stretching oil changes further than they should, etc.
170k miles is still impressive for the early 8 speed automatic. All Camrys in the last decade or so have weaker transmission and most manufacturer's quality control is going down.
Just keep up with transmission fluid changes, do it more often, maybe every 40k miles instead of the 60k miles of "life-time" stuff others say...
