Hey guys,
Fairly new to the forum. I have had my 2011 Jeep Compass Trail rated since October of 2016, bought it used with 55k on it, I am now at 69k and have a few times now experienced the "whine" from the CVT as it gets hot and begins to slip. Yesterday I set out on a road trip with my wife, and about 100 miles in, the CVT overtime light came on (the gear with the thermometer in the middle). I was literally in the middle of nowhere (Arbuckle Ca.... nothing but orchards) so I pulled over and let it cool down for about 20 minutes, the light went off and we set off again. only about 10 minutes up the road, the light came on again and the trans was slipping badly. I pulled off the next exit and got out my phone and started checking forums for answers. I saw people repeatedly talking about cooling, cooling, cooling. A little about me, I am a certified mechanic and I work on diesel mowing equipment for a living.... we have heat issues a lot due to plugged radiators.... so I thought to myself, " I wonder if my radiator is plugged up and blocking the cooler from breathing?". I popped the hood and tried to see daylight through the fins...NADA... so I told my wife to keep her eye out, we needed to find a hose or a car wash with a pressure washer... a few hundred feet down the road, we spotted a good tank at the edge of an orchard and it had a garden hose attached. So I pulled up, left the car running and sprayed water through the radiator to clean it out and I could hear the electric fans pulling it through... I knelt down and hit the radiator from under the valance also, I sprayed it out for a good 10 minutes. The light went off from the trans immediately, my car itself cooled down from the midway point on the temp gauge to about 1/4 the way, and the whine went away instantly. I got back in the car and got back on the road hesitantly. I increased the speed over the next 10 miles... no issues. So we continued for 400 more miles yesterday up into the mountains without a hitch, engine temp never went up, and neither did the noise of the transmission. And I was not easy on it, we climbed to 6200 ft yesterday up in the mountains and back and never another issue.
So if you start getting the whining, pull out your garden hose and clean out your radiator so it can properly cool the transmission fluid. grin:
Fairly new to the forum. I have had my 2011 Jeep Compass Trail rated since October of 2016, bought it used with 55k on it, I am now at 69k and have a few times now experienced the "whine" from the CVT as it gets hot and begins to slip. Yesterday I set out on a road trip with my wife, and about 100 miles in, the CVT overtime light came on (the gear with the thermometer in the middle). I was literally in the middle of nowhere (Arbuckle Ca.... nothing but orchards) so I pulled over and let it cool down for about 20 minutes, the light went off and we set off again. only about 10 minutes up the road, the light came on again and the trans was slipping badly. I pulled off the next exit and got out my phone and started checking forums for answers. I saw people repeatedly talking about cooling, cooling, cooling. A little about me, I am a certified mechanic and I work on diesel mowing equipment for a living.... we have heat issues a lot due to plugged radiators.... so I thought to myself, " I wonder if my radiator is plugged up and blocking the cooler from breathing?". I popped the hood and tried to see daylight through the fins...NADA... so I told my wife to keep her eye out, we needed to find a hose or a car wash with a pressure washer... a few hundred feet down the road, we spotted a good tank at the edge of an orchard and it had a garden hose attached. So I pulled up, left the car running and sprayed water through the radiator to clean it out and I could hear the electric fans pulling it through... I knelt down and hit the radiator from under the valance also, I sprayed it out for a good 10 minutes. The light went off from the trans immediately, my car itself cooled down from the midway point on the temp gauge to about 1/4 the way, and the whine went away instantly. I got back in the car and got back on the road hesitantly. I increased the speed over the next 10 miles... no issues. So we continued for 400 more miles yesterday up into the mountains without a hitch, engine temp never went up, and neither did the noise of the transmission. And I was not easy on it, we climbed to 6200 ft yesterday up in the mountains and back and never another issue.
So if you start getting the whining, pull out your garden hose and clean out your radiator so it can properly cool the transmission fluid. grin: