r/ToyotaCHR

Hi, first post ever but I am looking at buying a 2020 Toyota C-HR XLE FWD CVT with 68k miles and the reason I steered away from some other cars was that I heard CVT transmissions have a high fail rate and are extremely expensive to fix. I was wondering if anyone who has one or knows more than I do knows if this car will last me years or fail before then. I cannot afford to fix a broken transmission in a year or two or a new car for that matter.

I haven’t purchased it yet but I have put a deposit to hold it for a week so please let me know before 7/10/26 please. I will go to another dealer if the CVT issue is really that big. Or any other big problems with this model and year of CHR.

Thank you!!!

Just in case this helps some one else. I just purchased a new C-HR and the owner’s manuals were nowhere to be found. Dealer did not know either. 1st ‘26 C-HR the dealership had sold. Anyway, I just assumed everything is online now or read on the main screen. So I purchased a set online. Three weeks later, I find there is a removable shelf on the bottom of the center console. lifted the bottom shelf out and there they all were. pissah!

This is an update to my original post here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubaruUncharted/comments/1uczhvj/didnt_drive_for_4_days_and_needed_a_jumpstart/

Four days after the first time the car was found dead, it needed a second jumpstart.

Today the car was at the service center for diagnosis. Too soon to tell if this will solve the problem but the long story short is if you have the SubaruConnect App installed on your phone, disable Background App Refresh for SubaruConnect (on iPhone it's in Settings/General/Background App Refresh) and delete the companion App that's automatically installed on Apple Watch if you have one. Check your phone's battery usage to see if the Subaru App has been burning battery on background activity. Limit location services to only when the App is in use for good measure.

Here's the longer version. There's a Subaru service information bulletin revised 06/29/26 (yesterday) that has a list of Apps suspected of frequently requesting updates from the car, keeping it awake and draining the battery. One on the list is the wearable companion app that's installed alongside the SubaruConnect App on Google Wear OS and Apple WatchOS. The documentation implies these wearable apps contain a setting to constantly update the vehicle status - we could find no such setting in the Apple Watch app - my only guess is they may be simply referring to the background app refresh toggle. But, hearing this got me thinking about unwanted background activity.

So, I checked my wife's iPhone (where the SubaruConnect App is installed) and found that in battery usage, the app's background activity was off the charts; on Sunday it burned 17% of her iPhone's battery spending 15 hours and 45 minutes being active in the background - despite her not actively use the app at all. The surrounding days were also very high, measured in hours (a typical heavily used app might have a few minutes of background activity in a day and for comparison the KiaAccess app for our other car uses so little phone battery that it doesn't even register in the activity). Saturday - the day it needed jump-starting, was the second highest day. I'll attach a screenshot.

I don't understand the electrical side of anything but for those that do - the service center documentation confirmed a draw between 90-180mA on the battery before they proceeded to reset the infotainment system and remove our connected devices; afterward the found the draw to be 17ma steady.

Again, too soon to tell if this solves it - could wake up tomorrow and the car is dead again. But I can't imagine the SubaruConnect app talking for hours in the background doesn't have something to do with the dead 12-volt - at least in our case.

https://preview.redd.it/vnddcgb4niah1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e5aa1a7dea34cf9df0a1b4b4fa88ef053a69b3d

Hello,

I am considering my next vehicle as I’m coming from a 06 Toyota Highlander. I work from home, so I don’t have a crazy daily commute I was considering an EV (such as the CHR) but then I was considering an PHEV RAV4 which is a bit like best of both worlds it seems.

For those of you with the new CHR, why EV over a PHEV? Curious to hear feedback on what pushed you one direction over the other.

Alright, y'all. So, I've been testing this theory about the AT&T 4G causing the battery drain for a week.

Just to give you guys a background, I got the vehicle two weeks ago. I only drove it for a full day on Sunday. The car was parked in the garage for 5 days. I tried to leave the house on Saturday morning but failed due to the battery drain. I panicked like most of y'all. Luckily, I have a NOCO jump starter handy and was able to start it right away.

So, I've gone into this sub and many other subs to try and find an answer. I stumbled upon one comment by one user that said he fixed it by turning off the 4G trial. I thought to myself, "hmm that seems silly but it may make sense because AT&T coverage may be terrible in my area." FYI, I use T-Mo and the coverage is amazing here. I called up AT&T the next morning and had it turned off. I left other DCM services enabled.

Just to make sure that I set the test correctly, I followed exactly how I left the vehicle the week prior. I did not move the car from the garage for 5 full days. I did, however, unlock the doors a couple times to see if the lights would turn on and the doors unlocked. In theory, this should also drain some more power. No issues with all of that. I haven't charged the car since Sunday either; it was left to 81% charged.

And here's the good news: I went to start the car this morning and it started! 🥳

With that said, this may work for me and a few others out there, but may not fix it for everyone. I think we still need to demand Toyota/Subaru to replace our 12v with an AGM or LiFePO4 version ASAP until they resolve the issue permanently.

Hello everyone,
Just wanted to get some advice im looking to buy a 2021 chr koba the one im specifically looking at has 160,000km on it for around 24k(AUSTRALIA DOLLAR) and it has a 3 year warranty on it.
The dealership said it belonged to someone who used to drive it from bendigo to Melbourne for work hence the high mileage.
I just wanted to get a couple of opinions on the car since its cheap because of the mileage and i am planning on keeping it for minimum 8 years now i know that sounds like a long time but im a uni student this is a big purchase as is
Thx in advance to hopeful opinions

(CAR IS MADE IN JAPAN)

Hi all..
My partner had an accident in my 2017 Koba AWD.
It was wet roads, he hit a b double truck.
He hit the back right side of the trucks trailer with the front left side of my CHR.
Pulled up at a set of lights…
He was turning right behind the truck.
He has said that he was only driving 10-15kms and the cars anti collision breaks engaged, the car locked up and slid 10m into the truck.
Something isn’t sitting right with me, it’s not that I don’t believe him but I have driven this car for over 2yrs and not once has it “spun out of control” even when the anti collision engages.
I haven’t questioned him, I have only tried to understand what happened and he gets very defensive…has this happened to anyone..
he didnt get any details of the truck as it drove off and my car turned off apparently so he wasn’t able to follow it, only honk the horn and the truck didn’t stop.
At a wits end as my comprehensive insurance I pay $380 a month for will not progress with the claim without the the trucks details.
PLEASE HELP WITHOUT JUDGEMENT.