Not another one!!!

Hi ya,

Sounds like what happen to me, driving on the beach when pow lost power tonnes of black smoke out the back(like smoke in a factory fire) and my first thoughts were not good. motor was running fine on idle.
Popped the bonnet had a look and all looked well until i took the plastic guard off around the intercooler and found hose off going from turbo to intercooler(hard to see ,right back of the motor), wacked it back on and all was ok.Now keep the guard permenatly off.

Wish it were true.

Perfect vehicle for an engine transplant :-)

:)~

dont be long, but gettin them badges off the back would be a priority

Im not sure what you are saying ,

If you find metal in the filter quickly sell the vehicle and let someone else wear it ?

Did you expect to get more for a vehicle with 200+ km

Rock and a hard place Glen.. Do you keep it and wait for it to blow up? Or trade it in and let the dealership worry about it?

Why are most cars sold cheapish? Cause they got issues.

Truckster summed itup i think Glenn ,what will you do if you find metal in your's ? Eventually you probably will
Ihope you get a lot more Ks than Idid out of mine,iwas hoping for 300000 but it didn't happen even though it was serviced religiously for it's whole life

I think I would get a different engine or trade it in .

With the amount of spare cash I have at the moment I would probably just have to cross my fingers and hope for the best.

Just out of interest what did the metal look like, a small sliver or a chunk .

Jet engines have magnetic plugs in the oil system , if they find any metal on them it can be identified to see where it came from and if its ok for the engine to stay in use . Pity you couldnt do the same for your truck , if it was only the edge off the timing gear or something it wouldnt matter.

Glenn

Mine already has 340,000klms on it.

If I find metal in mine? Next day buy a Chev to put in its place.

The metal was no bigger than the head of a pin Glenn ,it wasn't magnetic which makes me think it was running a bearing or two

Visited the dealer this morning , the mechanic told me one of the cylinders has low compression and showed me one damaged glow plug , they will be pulling the head off to see what other damage has been done, the turbo seams to be intact .
Anyway engine not looking good

In the meantime i will be speaking to Nissan Australia customer service (Val Davies) as to why this should happen on a 2002 april build vehicle.

Hi,
Val Davies was the lady who in the end agreed for nissan to pay for the engine on ours, we had to pay for the labour, oils etc. It cost us $2,700.
When I picked the vehicle up it was running. The service manager asked if it had been hard to start, told him we waited for the solenoid to click then started, OK he says!! Took car back as it wouldn't start. The dealership sent it to "diesel specialist". We picked it up on Monday after 2 months of waiting! The timing was out in the injector by 1 tooth! Anyway, our argument with the dealership was how could it be fine before the blow up and now it's broken! The dealership rang me yesterday to say they are going to pay for diesel specialist. Thank god, was expecting the bill to be a couple of grand. Makes me wonder what they did to it during the rebuild. Good result in the end anyway, am glad it didn't cost anymore, but, it shouldn't happen at all. Them's the breaks with these 3 litre's. Hope you don't have to wait as long as we did or that you don't have complications like we did. Good luck. Barb