What a day...

As some of you know, I have been going through the oil consumption testing process with my new car. It was originally bought from Driftinz off this board about two months ago and its been a great car, if not the best one I have ever owned minus this, well major issue.

Anyway, after figuring out that miserable dipstick of ours I noticed that my car was just going through oil like crazy. I did my research on here and some of the other z boards and found out that some of you were having oil consumption issues.

So after determining that my new car might have the same issue I went to Regal Nissan here in Atlanta and began the oil consumption test.
After completing my 600 miles, the car showed a decrease of 1.25 qrts of Mobile 1 5w-30.

The service advisor who was helping was really cool, he builds 300's so it was nice to see someone take this problem on as their own and help me out. Especially since I was the new owner, had never been to that dealer before and the car had 48K on the engine.

Last week I was asked to drop the car off on Tuesday because Nissan wanted them to begin the internal inspection. Well, over the past two days, the picture presented itself with compression of 80 on the 4th cylinder along with oil being found in that area. Upon further inspection of the head, the cams were scored and the valives on 3 & 6 were in bad shape from oil depervation.

So... I just got off the phone with them and was adivised that they ordered a new long block for me today from Nissan and I should have my car back by the first of next week with a brand new motor...

This is my first Nissan and I am very happy with the service I got. It could have been alot worse. So if any of you are in Atlanta, Regal is a good dealership to work with if you have any issues.

Oh and about the Ebay rip off. With the hundreds of items I have bought off there I finally got ripped off today when I bought a Sony camcorder. I am not happy about that but I think I have some recourse with Amex and or ebay/paypal.

Hmm.. Maybe they will let me keep the old motor so I can begin building it for FI...

Best Regards,
Jonathan Allyn
www.jonathanallyn.com
www.surfaceatl.com

2003 350z Track Edition:

Mods:
Greddy Front Lip * Greddy Side Skirts * JWT Popcharger *DC Sports Headers * JIC Catback Exhaust * APS Test Pipes * 7" in dash molded Alpine TV screen * Alpine cda-9847 * PS2 * 2 Infinity 1042 10" subs * XM Radio * MTX Thunder 5302 * MTX Thunder 3203 * Custom box * Kicker KS Components * and more to come!!

 

what was wrong with the camcorder

 

HMmmM i want those stock rays!!!

 

Its a TRV19 and the LCD screen just shows black. I looked it up on Sony's site and apparently there is a TSB out for certain models of this camera. They are fixing them free of charge but the jerk off that sold it to me took off the serial number. For all I know now it fell off the truck. Really sucks but I am not to worried about it. I paid 220.00 bucks for it and I think Amex will help me out if paypal or ebay doesnt..

 

I thought about selling them once my new wheels come in but I think I am holding onto them for track days. Do any of you have much experience with 19's on the track?

These are the ones I am getting as soon as they come back in stock...

Ruff Racing 278's

 

report it to the cc first they will hold payment and then paypal will be easier to deal with...

 

Good news.

 

Hey Jonathanallyn,

Sorry to hear about your bad day. As for keeping the old engine, I would not start buying parts, as Nissan will want that in exchange for your new motor. They have an extensive R&D program to test this block or perform an autopsy if you will to see what caused it's fatal demise. Anyway good luck with your new motor.

 

thats good everything is going better now. Nice car by the way. We kinda have the same mods. Im still saving for greddy side and rear skirt. Keep up the good work!

 

Funny thing is I might have the same consumption problem....

I dropped about 1qt in <1k miles...My Z only has 7,400 miles on it.

What is involved with a consumption test?

 

For me it was contacting the dealer and letting the service dept. know what I thought was going on. I made an appt. and they changed the oil, marked the dipstick and had me come back in 600 miles.

After that, they checked the oil and agreed with me.

Thats about it.

 

Kewl!

 

Sorry to hear that. But, in my experience, Paypal's "buyer protection" is pretty worthless (unless the item was just never sent). They heavily favor the seller, and do little to help the buyer.

 

Where's Regal located at?

 

Good that Nissan take care of ur problem....

 

Regals on Holcomb Bridge near the krystals

 

On second thought... just Look it up on the nissanusa website

 

Ah, I think I know where that is. There's an Olive Garden a bit past that and Boston Market on the other side. I'll keep that in mind.