2018 Toyota C-HR

Per my mechanic my car has a CVT transmission issues hearing a whining noise coming from the front end sounds like its going to fall apart, I just bought this car only 7 months ago . The warranty is non exisitent the first month I had this car the battery died and I had to lose a day at work becuase of that and paid $400.00 for that .No warning lights for this issue I will filing a civil law suit, I'm a middle age woman trying to work and pay my bills and when something like this happens to a car I just bought it's so unfair. I dont have $8000 to spend on these repairs . This is my only means of transportation.

Bought a brand new 2018 Toyota CHR in 2018. Went to the dealer for every checkup. Whistling sound while driving that progressed louder as miles went up on it. Nothing else seemed wrong. No lights, no shifting issues, no warnings at all! Finally took it to the dealership at 72,000 for the answer to the whistling. Transmission failure! Contacted BBB with complaint. Toyota is not taking any responsibility due to the 60,000 mile warranty. To pay $26,000 for a vehicle that won’t even last 80,000 miles is a defect, plain and simple!

The contact owns a 2018 Toyota C-HR. The contact stated while driving 45 MPH, an abnormal high-pitched whining sound emitted from the vehicle without warning. The contact was able to drive the vehicle to the dealer where a diagnostic test was performed. The contact was later notified that the transmission had failed and needed to be replaced. The contact was then given an estimate for the repair. The manufacturer had yet to be notified of the failure. The vehicle had yet to be repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 67,000.

Unknown cause, went to turn on car and battery had died. Recent inspection shows battery power was great. No lights turned on when car was off. Found forums of other drivers describing the same issue stating their dealerships were unable to address the problem. Dash showed "EPB not available", "Abnormal Voltage" and "Power Steering Low" while driving. Difficult to turn the steerwhing wheel and radio was going in and out. https://www.toyotachrforum.com/threads/abnormal-voltage-steering-power-low-message.6191/ https://www.chrforums.uk/threads/abnormal-voltage-stearing-power-low.2308/ https://m.carcomplaints.com/Toyota/C-HR/2018/steering/steering.shtml

A noise occurs when driving. had it checked by two sources one being the Toyota dealer, the other independent. Both concluded the transmission was at fault. The dealer quotes me a price to replace(no repair option) of $13,000. There was no engine warning lights or such to alert me to the problem- just the noise. I think the safety issue is obvious. If I continue to drive the vehicle and the transmission fails especially on a highway at higher speeds than street driving- who knows what bad outcome that might be! This seems to be a very wide problem with these transmissions. There is a lot of complaints posted for this model in particular but also across years of cars- 2018-202. It seems to be a known problem by Toyota but no recalls, TSBs or efforts to resolve.