this thread is funny... i mean its a pretty honest mistake that he'd think he'd get an 07... but he just made himself look really bad

 

lol! the first thing i thought reading the OP was he probably never checked his oil level, because im pretty sure oil loss doesnt go from 5 to 0 in the matter of mile unless theres a bad a** leak.

OP = FAIL

 

OK, so I guess you already know the fact that you're not getting a VQ35HR... I'll leave that one alone.

I don't know how ANYONE can't notice their car is burning oil like it's going out of style. I don't know about you guys, but I check my oil every time I fill up at the pump. I also check it every Saturday morning, and before/after auto-x. It's almost stupid to go 700 miles without checking it even once.

Does the OP deserve a new motor... not really. His dumb fault for continuing to drive the car until it wouldn't drive any more (that was VERY retarded). If I was Nissan I wouldn't give him a damn thing.

 

omg lol im back because i was thinking of how stupid this was....the z has a damned oil pressure gauge....if it was low on oil im pretty damned sure it woulda had a loss in pressure. i would know when i ws down 1.5 qts, the oil light came on and my pressure went down a lot.

that reminds me, the low/needs oil light.

damn are you a f*cking idiot or what.

and!

+1 to not giving you anything....this was clearly owner negligence.

youre just lucky the 06 has issues, so you have something to cushion and hide your idiocy

 

please read the thread. Oil pressure and oil volume is not the same thing.

 

The 350z dipstick makes checking the oil at a gas station nearly impossible. Unless you let the car cool down the dipstick will have oil all over the place even if it is low 1.5 qts. I took my car back to the dealer after they installed the v2 motor with just 700 miles. They didn't want to believe that the new motor could be over 1 qt short in such a short time so they wanted to use the dipstick. It took nearly an hour of letting the car cool down before we could get a reliable reading. Even then the back of the dipstick showed it was full. That being said, I had them drian the oil and found it to be 1.2 qts short. Basically the dipstick is uselless.

 

The low oil light is useless. During one of my consumption tests my car was 2.5 qts short. i didnt get a single light or notice any change to oil pressure.

 

For me, it was good enough to tell if I was low or not. Although, I do agree, it is (or was) a shitty design.

But, that's still no excuse not to check at least weekly.

 

For me, the car slings oil all over the damn place and has to settle at LEAST half an hour to not have oil streaking all over the place.

The best you can do before that is just estimate. I don't even bother checking the oil unless the car has been sitting for a while.

 

so did the mod's not care that carlos said f*k this F*k u u f*king stupid to a whole bunch of members!? That's a bunch of harassing statements and innapropriate languagehmmmm. Has he even responded lately?

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I would actually say that most of the people leading up to Carlos' post were the ones that "incited" the foul language by calling HIM names. I agree that it seems pretty negligent to not check your oil when your car is making weird noises but he didn't snap at everyone until probably 15 people had called him an idiot. I'm pretty neutral either way and I think the stuff he said was pretty childish but I understand why he did it.

 

say bro becareful that the dealership doesnt f you over by giving you a used engine. my friend is a lawyer and his engine sucked in water got a new engine but the dealership tried to screw hiim over and put in a used engine. nevertheless he found out and they found out he was a lawyer and they are fixing it now. but make sure that the dealership doesnt try to mess you over.

 

I'd say we are all big boys and can handle someone blowing the cool because like 10 different forum members gave him a hard time about his assumption.

 

Yes, we can..but can Carlos? Yes, he was provoked, but he showed immaturity and only added fuel to the fire.

I'm sorry I even posed that question or made it a big deal b/c it really isn't and it's none of my busness.

 

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You're not serious, are you? That's common good practice and preventive maintenance. I've been doing it with my car since it had 2.1 miles on the clock. Weekly AND every fill-up I check. I can somewhat understand the fill-up part for some Z guys, but there's no excuse to not check at the absolute very least weekly. That's user error.

 

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That's funny, since mine reads the same +/- a few cross hatches between either checking at the gas station or checking it in the morning or checking it an hour after running the car. The only time it's impossible to get a good read is after auto-x or touge runs.

You seriously can't take 2 minutes out of your day to check your oil? Whatever. That's a poor excuse.

LMAO... that's why you have maintenance dates... wow. So, in between those dates, you don't check for any problems? You REALLY don't deserve a new engine... you neglected your old one. Especially after forcing the car to drive after it didn't want to. Bet you didn't tell the dealer that one.

 

I still don't get how some revups have the oil consumption problem, and other don't (like me.) An infiniti tech was telling me that nissan believes it has more to do with the driving style of some of the drivers.

 

all of this low oil drama.......I just went out to check my dipstick.