Hello everyone I have a somewhat unusual question. While I know that Nissan Altimas have an unreliable CVT, I was wondering if and when it goes bad, could I just slap on any CVT? I was mostly interested in the CVTs the Toyota Camrys use. If not, then would I be able to install any other reliable CVT, or would I have compatibility issues? Btw I have a 2017 Nissan Altima SV it’s a V4.
No, between the mechanical fitment and electronics interfaces and firmware there is no compatibility. (Also this maybe a bit nitpickey but you have an inline 4 not a V4. To my knowledge there have been no V4 cars sold in the U.S. for many years.)
Hey chuck thank you for the comment, as well as the tip! I’m barely starting to understand more about cars since the beginning of this year so this helped out a lot
You're welcome. In the past with old-school rear-drive cars it was feasible to do things like swapping transmissions but those days are way behind us at this point.
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Way back in the day, you could swap transmissions from one manufacturer's car into another one. They were only controlled by hydraulics, absolutely no computers were involved.
If you were a really good fabricator, you could make your own parts to get incompatible bolt patterns to work, and really Frankenstein something together. As Chuck said, these days, everything is all computerized. The computer constantly analyzes driver input, engine load, speeds, etc, and compares it against what it's programmed to do, and makes changes based on that. The info it's programmed with is specific to a single manufacturer's engine. Different manufacturers can make a 1.8L engine, for example, but they will have different torque curves and such, which a computer can't accomodate if it's not programmed for it. That's on top of bolt pattern conflicts and such. Cars these days aren't nearly as sandbox-y as they used to be, sadly.
