the rev up motor, dunno why they call it that besides a bit higher redline... but anywho didnt become available till 2005 on 6 speeds. no automatics ever had the rev up motor, nor did the 03-04 coupes no matter what trans.

so nissan doesnt kno whats causing it and jus replacing the motor with new defective motors?

yeah, right... you can say you user name to that idea. way to go nissan, makes tons of sense

I would think with Nissan's resources they know what the problem is, but it probably didn't make financial sense for them to engineer a fix this late in the product cycle (rev-ups came out in 05 and oil burning problems probably didn't become commonplace for another year or so).

They're waiting until we're all out of powertrain warranty so they can just forget about the whole issue and tell us "too bad".

sadly in this *ucked up capitalistic world, your right sir...

Nissan has had the same issue for over 8 years. The 2002 Altima also has a History of burning oil.

It didn't become prominent on our platform until the rev-ups were introduced.

doesnt make much sense cus they already spending alot of money replacing the engine why not fix the issue on the new engines before installing it?

Agreed.

So the Revups are likely to have the OC issue at some point during their life. Are any of the other engines prone to this issue or is it really not a concern?

Because Nissan is hoping that people won't realize that their car is burning oil, and would only have to replace a few motors here and there.

Why ADMIT that there is a problem and be forced to issue a recall and design a new motor?

Nissan would rather keep things on the lay low, and just replace motors as they come. HOPING that our warranty would expire before we realize that we are burning oil.

^^but they already issued a tsb. they dont have to recall all of it but jus properly fix the ones showing the issues since its not occuring on all motors

Maybe because they have a few thousand VQ motors sitting in the warehouse somewhere and it's cheaper for them to just leave it as is.

BUT... Someone already stated that the replacement motor is "revised". So maybe Nissan did do something about the rings/pistons and bearings.

I'm currently going through an oil consumption test at the Infiniti of Norwood in Mass for my 2005 G35 coupe 6MT. I've changed my oil only 2x since I had this car (3 months) and I only average 2000 miles before you hear the chattering and oil light come on when braking and sometimes immediately on start up. I have to go back in 1000 miles but the technician confirmed there is some blow-by(whatever that means) and he test drove the car and smelled oil burning so this is a good sign that I will get a new engine especially if the Infiniti technician is confirming my accusations for an oil consumption problem are correct. Wish me luck guys!!!

if your car has this does it mean you need a new engine to "fix" this everytime? or if you catch it in a timely manner is there another fix?

does the fact that the cars engines been replaced bring down the resale value of the car if its infos been given to the prospective buyer? meaning will the car be harder to sell and probably will be sold for less than kbb