I Hate The Vq Engine
Rollin On Dubz
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From: Cali
My engine has about 26k on it, and thank god I haven't had any problems. Your car might just be a lemon and fall under the lemon law. I'm in California and the Lemon Law in this state is if the car has a major failure 3 times, you are entitled to a new car.
Good Luck!
Good Luck!
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Originally Posted by james731
after my car being in the shop for 3 days so they could figure it out and take pics for infiniti of america to see what they want to do, i drove it a half of a mile before haveing to take it back because of strange smells, noises, power loss and it didnt steer right, they also replaced my radio that had some problems, with a radio that didnt work at all! how are you going to give a customer his car back in worse shape than he droped it off in?
i think i was there when you were at infiniti. i was at the parts dept ordering my a/c line at around 430ish. i was over hearing someone talk about a jacked up stereo or something like that. or maybe it wasn't you.
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From: Redmond, WA
Took my coupe in for some sort of chatter when cold. Infiniti said I had about 2.5 quarts of oil in it. WTH!? I changed the oil about 3k miles prior with royal purple synthetic and a wix filter. I drive it aggressively on occassion but nothing too crazy for a 6spd sport coupe. Fortunately the check oil light hadn't been on yet.
Anyway, I'm having infiniti complete a full scrub/flush of the motor and refill with synthetic blend and a nissan filter.
Anyone else have this happen?
Anyway, I'm having infiniti complete a full scrub/flush of the motor and refill with synthetic blend and a nissan filter.
Anyone else have this happen?
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From: Honolulu
changed my oil @ 1700 miles-- put in ~4.5 quarts of dino.
just checked, and the level is good @ 2300 miles.
kinda off topic, but the dip stick in our VQ sux donkey *****! i'm wonderin if the Z-tube improves clearance any?...
James, hope they eventually find out why your engine loses/burns excess oil
just checked, and the level is good @ 2300 miles.
kinda off topic, but the dip stick in our VQ sux donkey *****! i'm wonderin if the Z-tube improves clearance any?...
James, hope they eventually find out why your engine loses/burns excess oil
approaching 19k on mine and no oil problems yet. I did a change a 3k and then I switched to Mobil1 at 5k and do a change every 5k using a Mobil1 filter.
I only checked the oil level a couple of times, but it's to dang hard. even if you wipe the stick you can't read the fricken thing cause it's all smeared with oil. When I do my change it fills up the recycle box, so I'm assuming that I've still got 5qts in there.
btw grizzly our car takes 5qts.
I only checked the oil level a couple of times, but it's to dang hard. even if you wipe the stick you can't read the fricken thing cause it's all smeared with oil. When I do my change it fills up the recycle box, so I'm assuming that I've still got 5qts in there.
btw grizzly our car takes 5qts.
Last edited by DHCrocks; Jun 18, 2005 at 07:56 AM.
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Originally Posted by DHCrocks
our car takes 5qts.
i better fill in the rest!i also need to read the service manual better:
drain & refill w/ filter change = 4.7 liter (5 fl qt
, 4.125 Imp qt)<-- WTH is Imp?thanks for the heads up!
Last edited by grizzly; Jun 18, 2005 at 05:08 PM.
Originally Posted by james731
ill take my car in next week wehnits out of the body shop, i got hit to. ill keep you all posted but they say it will take about a month to do the work.