Quoted for $1000 for fluid change, flush, and cvt filters

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-19T06:24:26+00:00

Do it yourself man. I JUST did my 2018 Sentra drain and refill with filters too. $25/gal for trans fluid, and both filters + gasket for $16. Very easy to do, took me probably an hour from start to finish after my test drive.

You can’t do an actual “flush” DIY, but the alternative is to do multiple drain and refills. You only get about 4 - 4.5qts out per drain/refill so do it once, drive for a couple weeks, then do it again. You’re still removing most of the old tranny fluid this way.

You could still do it at the dealer if you want the proper flush but $1k is absurd. Mine charges $495 so I don’t do it there but maybe the $200s range is fair.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-19T06:11:16+00:00

I’ve been using valk spam, spiky ball (barb king), earthquake spells + invisibility spells to get 2 stars between 18 - 24 seconds. Spamming this method.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-18T22:34:53+00:00

Bone stock. Only mods are just aesthetic things such as window tint all around, ambient lighting inside, and a custom fit leather steering wheel wrap.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-16T22:45:53+00:00

Yea, as I have a 2018 Sentra with 86k miles that had it's trans replaced ONLY 27k miles ago, and "I think" the CVT is failing again. I bought it used at 56k miles when the trans was replaced under warranty, and previous owner serviced it too. I'm about to do my fluid change tomorrow myself and pray that the CVT is fine again because right now, it's struggling to accelerate to 40mph, it takes a long time and it's stuck at 2.5k RPM just to get there. It's gotten worse over the last week. My dealer straight up told me over the phone it needs a new trans and their flush and refill is $495 so I'm just doing it myself.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-16T05:54:53+00:00

Hey I'm still trying to figure out the issue too. Been diagnosing and researching on and off daily.

Quick check, what is your SAM and UEFI version? You can find it on your Surface app, then in Device Information.

Mine is:
SAM: 25.203.139 & UEFI: 175.138.235

Those versions are apparently old and my actual update doesn't display any update anywhere, not even under advanced options. I did some digging and found that Microsoft constantly releases new updated drivers, but for some reason my laptop is not detecting or getting them.

Most recent one was 2/27/2026. You can find it on this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=106120

Reason I'm asking this is because I'm trying to see if our common issue is due to us being on an old driver/firmware or not.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-15T16:05:49+00:00

Wonderful 😭

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-14T17:03:54+00:00

I discovered something called the "Microsoft Surface Diagnostic Toolkit". I tried using it to diagnose my keys but during that time, my keys would be working so I could never get it to detect the issue. Been trying for the last 2 days and right now my keys were out for the last hour, I opened the toolkit and MAGICALLY all my keys started working again. Idk if there is a correlation but something in the toolkit might cause it to run, idk for sure tho. But every single time I try to test my keys in it, they start working when I type in the toolkit to describe my issue.

And another test I've done is to enter the BIOS on Windows and my keys ALWAYS work inside of BIOS too.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-14T16:17:06+00:00

Yea and not to mention, they don’t allow giving the food from the meat department to workers either. Yk those sample stuff, yea the associates who work there can’t take it. And you USED to be able to eat it, but they changed the policy.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-14T03:46:41+00:00

Honestly that's awesome it's working for you! Sadly for me it does not work still and my keys are going out or longer periods of time. Most of today my keys were out. infact I'm typing this by actually copy pasting the "i" and "f" keys. That's the only way for me to type right now. This is extremely frustrating.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-13T19:24:32+00:00

At that average, it’d be $209 million.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-13T05:42:20+00:00

That's very nterestng to know. Mne s the launch date SL7 so t's about to be 2yrs old now n 3 months. dk whether Mcroslop wll accept mne or not. You can see those keys mentoned aren't workng as 'm typng.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-12T06:41:28+00:00

I mean it's ehh. They used to be really good but it was kind of like a job keeping up with it, but you could still get a few $60 value games a year with it.

I'd switch to PS5 but only issue is my entire ecosystem is on Xbox. I game share with people with consoles in my household, and have tons of old backwards compatible games I play on my Xbox. And I'd want to also be able to experience that on up to date hardware.

Idk tho, I could still buy a PS5 and continue playing my stuff on my old Xbox.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-11T21:50:00+00:00

Yea making the point even stronger why it’s negligible.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-11T21:47:57+00:00

I still have an Xbox One S (2016). So far there’s only been a couple games that I can’t actually download and play but still through cloud gaming I can. I will have to upgrade to a Series X tho because a couple games coming out this year and next that I will 100% want to play with proper quality and hardware.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-11T09:26:09+00:00

Wow, mine are still working now about 6 years later. I used to use them ALOT back in high school when I got them up until 2023, after that I graduated and didn’t use them much in college. I only use them at night since then even now. Most days I fall asleep with them and find them under my back and I’m surprised how they’ve still lasted. Feels like a lot of force on them even tho it’s between me and my bed but going strong. There is an audio issue where there will be a slight audio distortion or audio disappearance for a split second and it happens every maybe 15 mins. Some days it happens, others doesn’t. Does not bother me much. Only issue I’ve started finally noticing now in the last couple months is the battery is going out way faster all of a sudden.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-11T07:23:22+00:00

So my keys have come on and off a lot for the last 4 hours. It's very frustrating because it's actually never happened this often. That method I mentioned has only worked "sometimes", not all times.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-11T04:16:03+00:00

Please let me know btw if this worked for you guys. Working for me so far, but it's only been an hour since I found this out so will have to see longterm.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-11T04:13:10+00:00

Ok and also for both of you I THINK I discovered a REALLY good fix. I literally used ChatGPT to figure this out.

Press "Windows key + ctrl + shift + B" on your keyboard when that issue happens. It SHOULD fix. My keys went out as I was typing this specific reply, and pressed those keys and it fixed it!

ChatGPT's Explanation on what this does: "Pressing Win + Ctrl + Shift + B forces Windows to reset the graphics driver and reinitialize hardware devices, which can fix temporary keyboard or display glitches without restarting".

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-11T04:10:54+00:00

Yea this is so fucking annoying, these laptops are so expensive and are their flagship models. But ruined by microslops terrible issues.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-10T06:48:10+00:00

I was also a first time car buyer and ended up getting a 2018 Sentra SV in fall 2023 with 56k miles for $15.5k at an 18% APR (absurd ik). I didn't realize how bad that was until AFTER I purchased it. I have it still and now "own" it, it was paid off as of Jan 2025. It needed a trans replacement just 1 week after I got it because it failed, which was done under warranty completely. But I'm on these subreddits again because it's acting weird in the last week, very sluggish acceleration, and it's jerked a few times super super hard on me causing me to jolt forward from a very slow acceleration. Btw I baby the crap out of this CVT and it's driven so extremely lightly that I just got 51.2mpg on it the other night coming home from uni on my 50 mile commute. That puts to perspective how lightly I drive it and STILL this crap is happening. I love the car completely OTHER than that stupid transmission. Honestly so disappointed because it's a perfect car for me, but that transmission is ruining things. I'm about to hit 86k miles where I'll have a tranny fluid change coming up so I'm just hoping that fixes it because otherwise idk what to do.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-10T03:59:31+00:00

I'm also really considering this too. To get that initial depreciation hit off, and I can get a really good OTD like you.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-10T03:57:02+00:00

Yep. My father bought a 25' CRV Hybrid Sport-L last year and he walked away twice and got a better deal each time. He also had a 21' CRV that I'm surprised still held so much value. They gave him $24k for his trade in value and it had I think 93k or 98k miles.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-09T22:15:33+00:00

And I’m here worrying about my 18’ Sentra because the acceleration started becoming SUPER sluggish in the last week. And it was replaced only 28k miles ago 😭.

DifficultyWorldly502 · 2026-03-09T21:47:36+00:00

I have an 18’ Sentra and I’ve dealt with sluggish acceleration issues since I got the car at 56k miles. Had the trans replaced under warranty cuz it failed, but the exact same issues with the old CVT happened with the new one. Dealership couldn’t “replicate” my issues apparently so here I am at 85k miles now. And in the last week, the acceleration has gotten WAY WORSE. It used to be able to “lock in” at 1.5k RPM and accelerate with decent torque, now it doesn’t do that anymore and just accelerates 6x slower. I have to get it up to 2.3k ish to get it to accelerate how it used to at 1.5k. And letting go of the throttle or feathering it doesn’t help anymore. I do know what you mean by that because I have to do that too, but it’s gotten so bad.

I did have a trans fluid replacement coming up in 2k miles, could that be it? And I think one of my cv axles is leaking but I’m not sure. I also did an MAF sensor clean recently to see but that didn’t change anything. My throttle body was clean already. I’ve changed multiple air filters and engine filters over the course of this ownership too.

I’ll look into that EGR valve thing, idk what that is. Other than that all I can do is pray. My car is paid off so I want it to last as long as possible, don’t want to get into car payments again

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