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I'm going OEM. It's only $25 with my employee discount. I just find it odd that it would fail at 36k miles. My old 240sx had 200k+ and didn't have

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Old 12-16-2016, 04:13 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I'm going OEM. It's only $25 with my employee discount. I just find it odd that it would fail at 36k miles. My old 240sx had 200k+ and didn't have any issues >:/
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I'm going OEM. It's only $25 with my employee discount. I just find it odd that it would fail at 36k miles. My old 240sx had 200k+ and didn't have any issues >:/
Could it because of Ethanol base fuel.?Rubber Parts worn off fast...
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Could it because of Ethanol base fuel.?Rubber Parts worn off fast...
The other way around; later generation cars are generally equipped with hardware that are more resistant to ethanol. A 200SX (FWD and RWD) predates Z34; the RWD version by decades.
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I just find it odd that it would fail at 36k miles. My old 240sx had 200k+ and didn't have any issues >:/
I went through 2 on my '04 G35, they were the cause of a code tho...
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