Finally made it to Medellin after 8 days (lost two days in Peru). Everything is good until I heard and felt vibration on the left side right under my feet.
Yes it was coming from the CVT, we took it to the dealer and they confirmed it, took it to a friend's shop same thing. And parts were not available at the time. So they changed fluids added a additive to help it on the trip back with just a blessing as a guarantee that the car was going to make it.
I had to leave town so I flew back and my brother took the seat from Medellin to Santiago. He spent two weeks on the road not because he had issues but because wanted to stop and play tourists on the way down.
Back in Santiago I took the car to another place same diagnosis. It's going bad its gonna cost 2 grand to fix it and it will take a month or so until the parts get here.
Then the pandemic hit and I went broke. While the car keep giving the same noise and vibration only once you needed to punch it. So last week I decided to get my ass under the car to check for leaks and put the plastic cover back that I had taken out in Peru when had to stop to check things. And I noticed the left CV joint look odd like in a weird angle. Looked at the right CV and seemed a bit better.
Then I looked up I see a small rubber strip over the CVT mount just hanging there looking at me. Moved the CVT mount dust rubber cover and from the bottom I could not see anything wrong at all it all seemed perfect nice hard mount.
Then got my ass to look on top, remover the air box, moved the dust cover this time from the top par and there it was the rubber strip looking at me was the a piece of the top portion of the fucking mount with the weight of the tranny and engine you could not notice the fing thing was completely broken. once i took it out it came out without a struggle but in two pieces one being the mount to the frame the other being the center bushing where the bolt attaches to the aluminum bracket of the CVT.
The funny thing is that not even the dealer has it so what I did was I just grabbed a tube of urethane for windshields and glued the thing I left it 4 days drying and put the fing thing back.
AND GUESS WHAT roughly 8000 km, three countries, 4 shops and a fucking lot of stress it was a fucking mount that no one saw was bad. I almost spent 2000 usd on a full rebuild and all it was a bad cvt mount.
I ordered a new mount but it will take a month to get here that is why I went with the rout i went with the urethane.
Now the car drives, shifts good and have no noises.
So the moral of the story check your mounts boys and gals.
Have a nice one
