First, you posted in the insite forum so I moved it to the civic forum.

Here is my answer. I have an 03 civic CVT that I have owned for about 2 1/2 years now. I have never in my recollection brought it in for anything other than regular maintenance. The car holds up very well. I'm at about 35K miles.

The longest trip I took with it was round trip from chicago to MA and it had no problems.

Seems to be very reliable.

My hydroponics experiment

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"Crazy is what the sane call Delta Flyer"