Good deal on finally getting your car back. I hope that fixes it for you. I appreciate you starting the thread so we can all be more aware of the possible problem. I check the oil a lot more often than I did previously, in spite of the crappy dipstick.

 

I bought my car (04 coupe) in jan 07. it had 45600. it now has 48235 to be exact. I just did an oil change today w/ GC w/o ever doing an oil check. just curious to see if i have the problem. My car happened to drop 4.65 qts of oil. So its not all VQ motors. but after reading this thread i'll be checking it once every week. good luck to all who has this problem.

 

idk but i read another guys whos did the same thing and it only got worse....he got lucky they replaced the whole engine. i doubt that will happen but deffinetly fight for it. good luck

 

Most of the issures are on the 05-06 VQ motors. There are a few cases of the 03-04's buring some oil.

 

I want to post here before I create a thread.

My first oil change will be tomorrow. Will I be ok using the yellow bottle pennzoil 5W-30 with a nissan oem filter?

Should I jump directly to synthetic or use another filter?

 

I wouldnt recommend pennzoil for any car. i now alot of people who had problems using pennzoil. i would go w/ another brand like castrol, redline or royal purple w/ k&n filter. thats what i would do

 

I'm also a bit worried about Oil Consumption.

My 06 6MT has about 6k miles, and 3k miles after the 3750 oil change, my dipstick was reading low. The oil level was just a tad below the "L Line" (low level line).

Should I be worried? I had my oil change immediately, and luckaly I have not heard any weird noises coming from the engine.

Worst of all, I noticed this issue the day after tracking my car.

But have not noticed any "symptoms".

What should I do?

Ive been motoring the oil level every 500 miles since then (1 month ago).

I have dyno'd my car after the second oil change (before first oil change, oil level was on low), and there didnt seem to be any problems regarding power.
Not sure if that has any relevancy on this issue though

PS. Yes, I am a bit paranoid!

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WHS^^^

I have had nothing but sludge problems using Penzoil unless you change it every month as we did in our trucks at work.

 

Bottom line...if your dip stick is on the low mark, you are 1qt low and should add a quart to bring back at full mark.

If you mean 'symptoms' being weird engine noises, that's when there's only 1 or 2 qts left in the engine total, making it 3 or 4 quarts low out of 5. That's not good for any engine.

Seems you check often, so I doubt you will ever get lower than 1 qt. I check every 1000mi and monitor mine that way.
I always add when she's a quart low and never let it get lower than that.

 

Thanks 06CPV35,

You answered all my concerns.

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Not sure if anyone has ever taken the time, but in my previous life (Maxima), there were quite a few guys that did a TON of research on oil filters and found that the Nissan stock filter for the VQ (same damn filter since 95 with the 3.0) was actually pretty darn good. He ran a motor on multiple filters (yes, including Fram, i think that one was just for curiosity sake) and it held up as well as the Bosch and Mobil 1 filters.

Just a little note to throw into that little sidebar

 

Just talked to Infiniti about this. Here's the scoop:

1. Change the oil. Keep receipt.
2. Drive car for 1k miles.
3. Take car to Infiniti dealership and have them check the level. If they note that the car is 1 qt. or more low, they'll top off and note it in your vehicle history report.
4. Drive the car for another 1k miles.
5. Take car back to Infiniti dealership and have them check the level. Again. they'll check the level and note is you're 1 qt. or more low. Top off and you're back on the road.
6. Drive car for another 1k miles.
7. Take car back to Infiniti dealership and have them check the level. If your car is 1 qt. or more low, they'll take the car into warrantee repair. 99.9% chance you'll receive a new engine with a "fix" to the problem.

I don't know what the fix is, and couldn't pull it out of the service rep I spoke to, but was told that this was the direction that his shop received from Infiniti / Nissan in regards to the problem.

This seems like a problem that is being fixed "quietly" by Nissan in order to address the people that are reporting the issue. Those that don't have the problem should be thankful. This is really a pain in the @ss...

BTW, yes I'm experiencing oil consumption issues. I just changed my oil after 2500 miles (10,400 total on the car), and am 3 1/2 qt. low...

 

^Do you go to IOC for service since they're right down the road from you?

 

After months of going back and forth with the dealer and Infiniti . . . . . I am finally getting my new engine!! I was right at the point that I was about to seek legal means to resolve this issue and possibly lemon the car because of my oil consumption issues. But to my suprise, the dealer called me this morning and said to bring the car in ASAP. Infiniti Corporate has approved a new engine for my car. I can't wait until I have my car back with a new engine and this whole ordeal is finally done and overwith.

 

congrats man. now you have to drive it slow until you break it in again... then you're going to say that you drive slow in LA so you dont mind that.. DEJAVU man!!!

btw, ur avatar on here looks better than Trojan Man on 6mt