Also, looking back at the OP's pics, does the last one seem like the oil was contaminated with coolant? It has a coffee with creamlike mixture. It could be from a leak in the head gasket?

Did anyone notice that?

It looks like there is also some sludge? I'm not an oil expert.

 

Why are you such a jacka**? The oil pan picture shows a bunch of motor fragments. Obviously you are not an oil expert. The mechanics said there was no sludge. Apparently when a hole is blown through your engine, there can be coolant that mixes in with your oil. It is people like you that ruin forums.

 

Dude...I was only trying to be helpful. No need to be angry and call other people names. This is what ruins forums: name calling. I even mentioned previously I was not an oil expert.

I was thinking perhaps it was possible there was a leak in the head gasket because I've seen that before on the forum. Some members had to have their head gasket replaced because of a small leak that occurred. It may have caused issues with the engine later.

I was in NO WAY blaming you, so please stop trying to be so sensitive about it. I've been on your side. I even said you should go try to get your money back from the teardown because there was no way they would not refund you and admittedly, poor customer service and incentive.

 

When you lurk on the interwebs, you gotta have hide like a shark.....

 

They give good attention to negative post on social media marketing.

 

Nissan never want to own up to there **** up just look at the vq3.5 that motor burns tons of oil and nissan gave people hell about changing there motors I love Nissans I have own 3 but I also think this is my last one

 

I have been away for awhile, and retuned into this thread. I am most sorry to hear of OP situation... 7000 miles out.... they prolly would have done the same at 700. after rereading everything,, Where did this happen? ( state, and dealer) or maybe Kvannest didn't want us to know?

 

Are you talking about the VQ35DE or VQ35HR? They're not the same. The VQ35DE is known to burn oil but not the VQ35HR.

 

I only read the first page of comments after the OP. I don't think that would affect what I have to say, but I will admit it.
I just bought a 2008 G35x from my Dad. He bought it new with 2 miles on it. Oil was changed every 5,000 miles on full synthetic mobil 1 oil.
The car currently has 200,000 miles and is on the second engine. It is a junkyard replacement because Infiniti wanted $15k.

Basically the same thing happened. Immaculate care for the car, highway miles (he drives about 40k mi a year), all the optional maintenance recommended by the dealer (services even usually done early).

One day it blew up. Threw a rod.

While that one guy might say "oh well I never heard of that and so it must be your fault cuz otherwise I would have heard of it cuz I'm on g35 driver and everything is required to be reported to me on g35driver" I've gotta say, you are not the only one.
Believe it or not, the rod went at 77,500 miles. Just out of warranty (it was 25 months old).

They wouldn't replace it for him. He started a website about their dealership. Their site was wginfiniti.com and he got infinitiwg.com (or vice versa, I forget) and was quickly the third result on google for searching "Willow Grove Infiniti" or "Infiniti Willow Grove"
Well they called him and asked for him to take the site down and hand them control of it if they replaced his engine.


Power of the internet. Use it.

 

I never said it was impossible. Problems do arise out of nowhere sometimes. I said it was rare for this to happen. Most of the time, it was due to the owner's error.

Don't misinterpret everything that was said on this thread.

The owner could start a grievance site for his troubles, but to be honest, is it worth it? The amount of time and effort put into something like this will not be worth even the cost of a used engine. They can be had for less than $2000 now. I've even found some on ebay for less than $1500. In the end, the terms of the warranty is clear: 6 years or 70k miles for powertrain, whichever comes first. The other guy was lucky and had lots of time to do something like that. The engine still being only 25 months old may have helped in their decision.

Also, the OP should really try to get his teardown cost back. They really shouldn't have charged him for something silly like that.

 

I'm not looking to just start an argument, but at $15k new or your ebay motor () for $2k plus install, a website only takes an hour to have up. 2 hours to make it pretty.
total of 3 hours to possibly save $2k-15k? A junkyard engine (which my dad ended up doing) was $7500, install was $1000. So let's say you save $8500 by investing 3 hours.
Well, that's $2800/hour. Yea, worth it. Unless you make over $2800 an hour?

The other guy is my dad. He worked 80 hours a week at the time. The engine being 25 months old should have helped, yes, but they refused to even help him out until he put up the website after a week of frustration in getting nowhere with them.


Again, not trying to start an argument, but I strongly recommend starting a website, posting your records, and then calling the dealership.

 

The problem isn't about spending money, it is about effectiveness.

If your chances of succeeding is only 5%, it isn't worth the cost of doing so. Infiniti Corporate may just do nothing. They didn't do anything blatantly wrong.

There are threads and forums online where you can search many people having issues with different cars and most of them go unresolved by the company if it wasn't under warranty.

If the dealership did something terrible: like taking your car for a joyride and then wrecking your car, then the power of the internet will more likely help you. If you paid for a specific work done to your car and the work ended up being shoddy, then internet will probably help you. In fact, both of these situations actually did happen and the dealer still refused to do anything. That's when the internet came and helped them out. If it was an engine that just spontaneously died and out of warranty, what's the chances that it will actually help?

I'm not looking to argue either, but it really is about taking chances, and if it ends up being useless, then the OP just wasted time setting up a website and paying for the website.

Your dad was extremely lucky in getting approval for it. Most people wouldn't. If your dad's method worked every time then anyone online who complained would get free engine replacements out of warranty.

 

IMO: It is unfortunate to hear about a couple examples of VQHR35's detonating but this is far from common and extremely rare.

IMO: I also believe the personal website idea these days will have limited success and is far from full proof. Some companies could care less. I've been on the net since 1991 and know if you search hard enough you can find supporting evidence for anything.

EDIT: Some truth and even more bogus data.

 

Agreed. But if the website becomes third or fourth result on a simple google search of a dealership, there is a great benefit to that dealership to have it removed. Never said it is fool proof (fool proof, not full proof), or guaranteed to save you $15k. I just personally am not so rich that $15k is something I laugh it. That's a big amount of money to spend on my car. At least big enough that I'll invest $10-15 into building a website for 2 hours in the hopes that it might help. Even just to be counted for a partial credit, or something. It's such a small investment of time and effort that I personally would think it's foolish not to try. Not to call you all foolish, just that if you were in that situation and COULD have saved $15k, but didn't because it's not 100% guarantee or because you haven't heard of it before, I dont know... that does seem foolish.

EDIT: Keep in mind, most importantly, this was all just a recommendation to the OP. Not a statement of VQ35HR's in general, or Infiniti, or Nissan, or anybody. Simply "Yes, I had that problem, try this, it worked for me! Good luck!"

 

That's almost akin to saying, "I won the lottery and got $15k! You should spend $30 because you may win too." We all know the chances of actually winning the lottery. If you win, however, you would be making $2800/hr!

The chances of getting your idea to work is very slim. Setting up a website takes more than 2 hours if you want it to at least look pleasing for people to read about your issue and care about it. I also believe (I may be wrong) that a website's cost is around $15 monthly? The investment may just be a waste of money.

The most likely thing the OP will get back will not be a brand new engine, but the cost of the teardown, which is most likely only a couple hundred.

It may work, it may not work, but unless there's some incentive for Infiniti to actually step forward, they won't.