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Originally Posted by armensti (Post 371297)

will they give me a rental if they cant finish on time?

For the life of me...why don't you pick up the phone, call the service department, and find out? WTF is with some folks on this forum lately? :shakes head:

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Originally Posted by 370Zsteve (Post 371363)

For the life of me...why don't you pick up the phone, call the service department, and find out? WTF is with some folks on this forum lately? :shakes head:

Fo rizzle. :shakes head:

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Originally Posted by 370Zsteve (Post 371363)

For the life of me...why don't you pick up the phone, call the service department, and find out? WTF is with some folks on this forum lately? :shakes head:

maybe because it happened at 1am in the morning. i think thats the biggest reason why i didnt think of calling the dealership at that time.

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Originally Posted by BLUESLATE (Post 371311)

Did not mean to offense you in anyway. I was just curious because I thought dealerships were giving out loaners outta their own pocket (not exactly, since they're getting paid for the services). Thus, if your repair job doesn't make them enough money, such as a simple oil change, I doubt they'll give out a loaner for free.

However, I do know that the dealerships often have loaners that they actually rent out to the customers who needs a car during the service period at a pretty fair price. The rental policy, I believe, is also very similar to those rental car company's.

I hope Nissan does the right thing for you in this case. :)

Good luck!

you didnt offend me in any way. i was just frustrated and came off sounding like i was. i think your right about them making enough money. If its a major problem then they do give a rental. im about to call them and go over and see what happens.

so just got back from the dealer and they checked the car and told me that the timing of the engine is off. i asked them what could have caused the problem and they said that it might have been the oil. i told them that i used redline 5w30 and the mechanic said thats the problem. he said he had another maxima with the same problem and he also had a 370z at 12k miles with the same problem. They used different oil too. I dont know what to do any ideas?

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Originally Posted by armensti (Post 371754)

Maybe your oil level could have Been low? Causing the engine light to come on and the ecu sensing it also causing your original problem, have you checked the level? if so, then I don't know? other than dumping the oil, and filling it up with ester oil... that was a strange diagnosis...

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Originally Posted by armensti (Post 371754)

Oh, it's the Redline oil that caused it. Hell, I woulda bet money it was the alignment of the Earth relative to Venus.

So should i change the oil or what?

if that's what the dealers pointing fingers at, what you got to loose but to change it, and if it pops up again, the dealer will have to get another tech to look at it and have them reimburse you for changing oil, due to their wrong diagnosis...

Im just gonna change it

The timing of the engine is off because of the Redline oil? I think someone's yanking your chain!

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Originally Posted by m4a1mustang (Post 372055)

The timing of the engine is off because of the Redline oil? I think someone's yanking your chain!

But since they are pointing fingers at the oil, once he changes to the nissan oil, they can't point fingers at anything else, and they'll have to fix it.

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Originally Posted by Triple's (Post 372058)

But since they are pointing fingers at the oil, once he changes to the nissan oil, they can't point fingers at anything else, and they'll have to fix it.

Not unless the residual amount of Redline left in the engine after the change confuses the Nissan oil into thinking it's Redline and thus throwing the timing off forever.

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Originally Posted by m4a1mustang (Post 372055)

The timing of the engine is off because of the Redline oil? I think someone's yanking your chain!

Of course it's not the oil!!! Armensti either misunderstood the mechanic's explanation or the mechanic is a complete idiot.

My first thought, Bad gas???

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Originally Posted by IDZRVIT (Post 372065)

Of course it's not the oil!!! Armensti either misunderstood the mechanic's explanation or the mechanic is a complete idiot.

:iagree:

one option is to take it to another dealer and don't tell what oil is in it...