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A few things to add to the pot that’s being stirred: “Oil heat”, as used commonly in the Eastern and Midwestern US, is essentially diesel heating. This brings up a couple of things. To the points made about diesel gelling at low temps, generally speaking, apply only to untreated #2 diesel...

Except that, absent abuse, that doesn’t really happen, especially with the current generation of CVTs. Also, Nissan took Renault’s money, not their engineering. And now they’ve kicked Renault to the curb, starting with the palace coup that’s seen Carlos Ghosn sitting in a Japanese jail cell...

I’ve owned many Nissans over the last 10 years. Of those, three have had CVTs. My first CVT equipped Nissan was a Murano and because of a class action lawsuit, that vehicle’s transmission warranty was doubled to 200,000 miles. I sold it after a major collision at 125,000 miles and had no...

At this point, it looks like 2022 at the earliest for something new from GM, and they’ve committed to production of the existing vans through 2023. I wouldn’t hold my breath. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

JD’s data and experiences are, on surface, off putting. I’ve heard similar reports from a handful of small fleet operators. That said, the Promaster is simply the current generation of the Fiat Ducato. Its basic FWD architecture has been sold everywhere but the US for more than 30 years. There...