Folks,
I don't think anyone out here is racing their cars at extreme temperatures and pressures for a straight 4-5 hours like we see in the automotive races. When I bought my CSVT it was because of the thrill it gave me to listen to that V6 sing up until redline and the handling performance that it demonstrated. I don't think any of us expected to purchase this car and then drive it like it was an Escort or something. Knock on wood, but I have over 80K miles on my engine with no problems and I guarantee that each and every day I'm running it up to 6000 or 6500k. Now if everyone is saying that that is abuse, then how are we suppose to drive what is considered to be a sports sedan ? a car that is designed for and performance oriented??? If I wanted a car that I could just cruise in than I could have purchased a Taurus or something. Perhaps after spending less than $22k for this sports sedan, I should have expect a car that was basically all show and the go that it was capable of would only lead to its own demise and failure since many of the components weren?t capable of handling the added performance. Perhaps too, this is a lesson learned for all of us which is you get what you pay for. I guess we should expect our engines and transmission to fail under hard acceleration and cornering that the car was obviously capable of doing and designed for is some respects because Ford new the expense that it would have cost to harden the transmission and refine the engine further would have been too costly and therefore driven up the price of the CSVT. They cut corners??? Probably or maybe they did what most companies do and take a chance that the likely hood of these kinds of problems happening wasn?t worth the investment to insure it wasn?t going to happen. I guess that all of this is telling me that I shouldn?t purchase a product like this in the future and not expect these kinds of problems. I just wonder how many Acura Integra Type R?s engine are blowing up from what has been labeled here as abuse???
