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RIP 2010 370z
So I've been carpooling to work for the past year and as a result have been driving my Z less and less. I was supposed to take it in for service back in February or when I reached 73k miles. However, by March I had only 71k miles on the car and thought nothing of it. Fast forward to the summer time and temperatures reaching into the 100F+ every day.
I got sick of riding in a truck that had no AC so I started commuting to and from my work every day. Then I had shoulder surgery at the end of June and let my carpool buddy drive my car and I to and from work for the next two months. Three weeks ago I have a blow out on one of my rear tires. I order up two new tires and wait a week for them to get installed. I start feeling better and more able than before, so I decide to treat my Z to a new stillen Gen 3 intake. I even buy some painted door handles to give her a cleaner look. I proceed to start driving to and from work again, finally noticing that I'd exceeded the recommended service time frame by 1k miles. I think nothing of it and schedule an appointment with the same Nissan dealership I've had the car serviced at for the past 6 years. Then on my way home on friday suddenly I start to hear a knocking. Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock all the way home. I of course am panicked and beg to the Z gods that it isn't what I fear. I drive the car to the dealership on my appointed day and at the very last light before I reach the dealership my car dies. I push her the last 100 yards up to the dealership and leave her in their care, fearing the worst. Today I've learned that I killed her. The engine is completely shot and needs to be replaced. This is the first time I've killed a car, and it was the first car that I truly loved. I think I grew complacent in my years of dealing with the dealership for service. I had the premium service contract and the extended warranty, but both expired in January. Now I'm left with 2 choices. 1. Replace the engine for $11k (brand new) or $8k used (30k miles) 2. part her out. Anyone have any idea how much I can get for parts? In the meantime I'll be working my way to the bottom of bottle. |
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I would recommend buying a used engine. You can even get a decent one from eBay for less than 3k, and about 1k for installation.
Probably your best choice unless you like spending more than the car is worth on repairs. |
Maybe this might help. some of your parts should be good. this is a nismo engine??
it was on facebook in parts for sale. shipping to California? Dennis Vita Kalashnik 29 April vq37 nismo engine and sports tranny willing to seperate $2,500 Endicott, NY (13760) Willing to separate. Need this gone make best offer. I have intake manifold and plenum and all wiring. No injectors. 52k on it. MUST GO garage clean OUT!!! Dennis Vita Kalashnik's photo. Dennis Vita Kalashnik's photo. |
Really sad story man, Husam2012's idea is the way to go, DON'T part her out,
“The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.” ― Gary Shteyngart, |
Obviously you're not one for checking you fluid levels... You apparently didn't "love" your car that much.
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^^^ Like beating dead horses huh, Lol.......
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i'm surprised that it went out... i know people that drove up to 2k over the "recommended" service change and nothing went wrong with their car.
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Some people should just stick to riding a bus. |
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With or without the mini-hibernation, you've implied your car was regularly serviced. I don't see how your engine would just go kaboom. Going 1k miles past an oil change/service interval won't do that, at least for sure not under normal usage.
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Anyway, best of luck OP. |
What actually caused the failure? Just going a little while past the recommended service date would not cause this... But if you had an oil leak or something that went unnoticed to the point of running dry...well....
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shouldn't let your "buddy" check the oi:wtf2:
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im thinking oil starvation, i have same yr as you and my z tends to burn off oil over time so i always gotta check oil levels. but then again i do drive it pretty hard and couple of track days throughout the yr.
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Considering the OP has a very low post count and his avatar shows (his car???) drifting... Yeah, I'm calling BS on his story.
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None of this makes any sense.
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Yes it does. Pure neglect and abuse. Plain and simple.
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religious habit of mine when I do a gas up. check the oil. check the clutch and brake fluid level and colors (any big change from the last check up gets noted and actioned if required)
that is every 120 miles. yep. 120 miles. I average 15mpg. last gas up I averaged 12.5mpg if that tells you how I drive my car. I did an oil change early (i do every 5000km but this time about 3000) because I did notice some oil burning. Probably because the past few tanks I've been driving a lot more aggressively in higher temps and in DD as well. your basic checks every gas up could have saved you a lot of heart ache |
Going over recommended service isn't going to kill your car.
Handing your car over to some jamoke who doesn't give a **** about it at the dealership, very likely, will. More than once I've berated my parents for not checking their fluid levels after they get their car serviced. More often than not I pull out the dipstick and their car's oil barely reaches the tip. Once, while panic braking, I saw the low oil light come on in their Camry and, sure enough, the dipstick was completely dry when I pulled it out. Check your fluids if you're not changing them yourself. Super important. |
Didn't expect so many reply's this fast. I'll type this up in between calls.
I've already been looking around at used motors. I have a buddy who is a service representative at a repair shop who was able to hook me up with the shop for after hours work on my car. We should be able to swap it out over the course of a weekend. However, I have to wait 4 weeks before I can use the shop. Quote:
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0-speed limit as fast as I can when getting on the freeway. Otherwise it's pretty tame to the point that my friends have commented on how weird it is that I never speed. Accelerated onto the freeway when knocking occurred, I pulled over thinking something was stuck in the wheel well. That's when I realized the knock was coming from the engine and proceeded to freak out the rest of the 40 miles home. Those were out the door prices. Quote:
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Not exactly sure why you like stomping on me when I'm already down, but I don't see how low post count has anything to do with this. Perhaps I don't share stories of me racing an SRT through traffic, because I avoid that stupid ****. I'm sorry I don't feel the need to post my opinion on everything after joining up three months ago like you. The fact that we're all here is proof enough that each and every person on here loves and respects their car. Even if you're a 20yo bro with a 12'' **** that is slayin all da hoes that your car brings you. You and I are here because we are proud of our cars and we wanted to share our passion with others. Now if you would, please :gtfo2: |
LS3 V8 swap...that's what I'd do.
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73k miles its like a 4th hand used car.
get a new one. |
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fak, windshield washer ran out.
time to get a new car. |
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I hope you find a good deal on a new (to you anyways) motor and chalk this up to a hard learning experience. |
I do all my own maintenance and I suggest you do the same. Oil, filter, coolant, trans fluid, diff fluid, brake fluid, plugs, rotors/pads are all easy enough to do in your garage and it sure as hell beats overpaying for some guy at the stealership who doesn't give a rat's @ss about your car to do a halfassed job.:eekdance:
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And just to be clear, I wasn't racing anyone through traffic. What I did wasn't considered racing, and I wasn't whipping around in traffic. And also considering that section of road opens up to 55 mph, I wasn't even really speeding, at least not for more than about 3 seconds. So please... :gtfo2: |
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The whole thing seems odd:
Did it use oil before? If the dealership did the oil changes, did they ever alert you that it used X amt of oil, etc during the last change? Were you running full synthetic? I had a highly modified wrx at one point, that pos would burn a quart of oil after about 1500 miles into an oil change cycle... The Z seems to not burn a drop at all being a simple NA motor. My money is on they under filled it, impossible to prove though. |
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Regardless of OP's neglect to check fluid level, I wonder if the dealership screwed something up during the last service, aka didn't fill enough or put 0w20 in (and hot engine shear it down to like a 0w10).
Again, sorry for the mess and best of luck. |
Yeah I fully take responsibility for not checking things myself. This is the first time I've owned a car and not done the maintenance myself. I got so used to the dealership doing it that I just didn't pay attention anymore. My stupidity.
Getting an engine delivered to my buddy's shop next week and going to start doing some prep work on the car over the next couple of weekends. Hopefully I can finish the swap in a single weekend, but we'll see. Just going to go back to doing all the work myself. Impossible to prove if dealer screwed up the last service so I'm not even going to bother trying to blame them for anything. I agree this all sounds fishy that only 1k miles over suggested maintenance that the engine would die like this. Hell my dad's suburban is about 4k miles over it's recommended maintenance and that thing is somehow still puttin along. Learning a very expensive lesson here and thought I'd share my mistake with others here so that they may learn from my fug up. |
You know, while the engine is out, could do some upgrades...
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Or just deep cleansing. :ugh:
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I would sure as hell try to blame oil starvation on the dealer. They're the ones doing the oil changes. Forget the warranty. That's just negligence.
Of course, you did not pay attention, so enough time has passed that the dealer is likely to get away with it :ugh: |
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