How's the oil change different from a Nissan Dealership and Infiniti Dealership
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Don't go to Jiffy Lube or any of those places. Many of them charge as much as that Nissan dealer, yet their help is very questionable.
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Buying your own oil seems like a good idea.Originally Posted by tjkjunior
I saw that Infiniti is using Quaker State oil. If that is true, I would actually recommend taking your car to the Nissan dealership. The class that I'm in at my college right now is Automotive Engine Diagnosis. We did visual comparisons of different oils of most popular brands when they were fresh out of the bottle and we could actually see very tiny particles of something in the Quaker State oil. We nickname that kind of stuff "swill" in my class. All the other oils that we looked at looked normal including some synthetic Mobil 1. The Quaker State oil that we looked at was petroleum based so I can't really comment on their synthetic products. I personally use synthetic oil in my 2003 G35 and it works great. I run my 1993 Nissan Sentra SE-R on petroleum based oil and it runs great too, even with 190,000 miles on it. The major benefit of synthetic is that it has a wider operating temperature range and resists thermal breakdown better than petroleum based oils. So personally I don't think that it matters what type of oil you use. I would definatly go with synthetic if you run your engine hard though. I just thought I'd write about my personal findings about Quaker State. After seeing those tiny particles I would never personally use their petroleum based oils.
What kind of oil should I buy? and where? thanks for your help guys.
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Originally Posted by benbo5
Thanks Gee35 for your advice. Im more than willing to drive up to Atlanta to do all my servicing, it really gives me an opportunity to get away for the day and go to Atlanta. Plus they will have a loaner ready for me when I get there. I really dont trust the guys over at a nissan dealership for the fact that they do not service many infinitis im sure, and I know the infiniti will take better care of my baby since I bought it there to begin with. Should I tell them I only want synthetic oil when I go? thanks
do NOT go to nissan. if anything is messed up, you will have to deal with them. at infiniti, if anything goes wrong, you can complain to the big guys. at nissan, they will only laugh at you and give you an attitude. i had body work done at nissan, and they screwed up my life. i was dumb enough to leave my camera there, and some actually STOLE it. In addition, replacing my rear bumper took weeks. I don't even know what else they did to it. This was at the bay ridge nissan in NYC. I don't know about the other dealerships, but it is best to go to infiniti.
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Originally Posted by G35Mechanic
I dont know where you guys get your info...and its kinda funny to be honest. The oil thats used at the dealership is whatever the dealership wants to buy, no orders from corprate other than the fact it has to be at least 5w30. Some use penzoil (id rather use gutter watter to be honest), some vlavoline, some mobil...it all varies depending on cost.
Exactly. The brand of oil used by the service staff has about the same importance as the choice of Coke or Pepsi being served in the vending machine near by.