I Believe my car is on its last legs......UPDATE

"jvirgs drives a Subaru" (jvirgs) 12/05/2014 at 17:43 • Filed to: None

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So I took the car in for service today because it was in fact time for an oil change and I needed a state inspection. Also had them look into what is causing the oil consumption. Basically its not good. Was told there was internal damage to the cylinder walls and possibly the piston rings.

Fellow Opponaut Boxer_4 posted this yesterday on the original post:

Excessive oil consumption has been a pretty prominent issue for the Nissan QR25DE engine. In fact, there was a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! issued for this problem. Long story short, the exhaust design allows the pre-catalytic converter to become damaged. Parts of the pre-catalytic converter can then enter the engine and damage it, too, resulting in increased oil consumption. It's possible that this is the problem, and your engine is on its way out.

The dealer confirmed this as the cause. They said as long as I keep oil in it, I shouldn't really run into any isses. But with how much traveling I do for work, I guess its time to start looking for a new(er) car instead of playing Russian Roulette on when the car is going to shit the bed.

Thanks for all the responses yesterday.

A Dino for your time :)

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DailyTurismo > jvirgs drives a Subaru 12/05/2014 at 17:59

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My wife had an 02 Altima with the same QR25DE inline-4 up front. Had the dreaded low compression confirmed right around 85k miles, which was about 5k miles past the last chance at getting warranty from Nissan. In California, the state requires all new vehicles to have an emissions component warranty through 80k miles and 8 years. Unfortunately, while the damage was occurring well before that point, the diagnosis was done at a Nissan dealer after 80k miles and when we appealed the warranty directly to Nissan, they basically said go f yourself . My only solace is that I will never buy or recommend a Nissan product to anyone, and have dissuaded many people from buying Nissan/Infiniti in the years since costing them in profit much more than the cost of the engine rebuild.

Xyl0c41n3 > jvirgs drives a Subaru 12/07/2014 at 19:45

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