Everyone with oil temp issues

ZKindaGuy · 07-30-2009, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by mannyz

The funiest thing happened to me today. I reach the 3400 miles and decided to do the oil change at the dealer. Well I requested the Nissan Ester Engine Oil and first they didnt know WTF I was talking about, so they did calls, check in parts and finally came back telling me that it was $20 per Qt and labor, for a total of $140 O_O

So I said, no thanks lets use the Castrol Synthetic then. Which I end up paying anyways $98.00 -_-

But the funny thing is that before my oil change, my temp was always 220, unless when I have fun with the car it will jump to 240. Now after the oil change, my normal temperature is 240. WTF?

This might be someting that we should all keep in the back of our mind to see if a pattern arises when using SYNTHS instead of Ester oil. We might find that if SYNTHS run the engine around the 240 range most of the time then this may have been the motivation behind Nissan recommending in their spec to use Ester oil. And if that is the case then:

1. Nissan definitely knew the oil issue existed.
2. Nissan recognized the issue to be significant enough to make the Ester oil use recommendation.
3. Nissan is covered in having provided a solution (the use of Ester oil) to the issue and thus mitigating any "negligence" issues that an owner might raise if their engine died as a direct root cause to the oil issue and they did not elect to use Ester oil as recommended by Nissan.
4. Nissan avoids a recall since they have provided a workable solution........
5. Nissan saves money by not having to do a recall.....and shifts the onus of paying for the solution to the customer....and Nissan makes money be recommending their own Ester oil as a solution.

Interesting....

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