Not another one!!!
Submitted: Thursday, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:10
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Member - gujimbo
Greetings all
Driving
home yesterday down Toorak rd when the enginge starts to make a loud rattle, accompanied by grey/black smoke from the exhaust (yes it is a Nissan 3.0lit td build date April 2002 with 96000klms on the clock) limped into a side street eventually got the car towed to the dealer who started it, idles cleanly but when you accelerate lots of
grey smoke from the back , but no rattles or other noises from engine.
No word from the dealer as of this morning, will have to see what worth the Nissan extended warraty gives me.
cheers
Reply By: dieselup - Thursday, Mar 16, 2006 at 20:44
Thursday, Mar 16, 2006 at 20:44
Hi gujimbo
I hope you can recieve some assistance from Nissan
We had a 3.0l Patrol ,2000 model ,it made it to 210000km (we must have been lucky)then I found metal in the oil filter, not too much but enough to worry about
So after plenty of phone calls - pricing parts ,S/H engines ,recon engines (not many available, too big a risk one rebuilder told me) and working out it looked like costing between $7K & $10K we decided to get rid of it
We were lucky because it was still running and not rattling
We were unlucky because it was pretty much worthless,18K trade on 42K cruiser
The best advice I can give anyone with one of these is if you service it your self always cut the paper out of the filter you remove and squeeze the oil out of it in a vise and
check for any foreign material on it
If it goes to a dealer leave an ice cream box in the car and tell em you want the old filter back and take it
home ,let it drain and
check it your self
You might avoid a failure and an expensive repair bill
Good luck
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Follow Up By: Member - Glenn D (NSW) - Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 00:44
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 00:44
Im not sure what you are saying ,
If you find metal in the filter quickly sell the vehicle and let someone else wear it ?
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Follow Up By: Member - Glenn D (NSW) - Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 00:45
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 00:45
Did you expect to get more for a vehicle with 200+ km
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Follow Up By: Truckster (Vic) - Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 13:00
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 13:00
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.
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Follow Up By: dieselup - Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 19:05
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 19:05
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
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Follow Up By: Member - Glenn D (NSW) - Saturday, Mar 18, 2006 at 14:56
Saturday, Mar 18, 2006 at 14:56
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
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Follow Up By: Truckster (Vic) - Saturday, Mar 18, 2006 at 16:26
Saturday, Mar 18, 2006 at 16:26
Mine already has 340,000klms on it.
If I find metal in
mine? Next day buy a Chev to put in its place.
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Follow Up By: dieselup - Sunday, Mar 19, 2006 at 13:05
Sunday, Mar 19, 2006 at 13:05
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
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