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I would recommend you use Nissan's recommended ester oil (which is a Penzoil Platinum product). I suspect you'll find your engine oil will run a bit cooler and your engine
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I would recommend you use Nissan's recommended ester oil (which is a Penzoil Platinum product). I suspect you'll find your engine oil will run a bit cooler and your engine a bit quieter.
It's my understanding that Nissan has a service bulletin out on this and is recommending this oil for all Nissan and Infiniti vehicles that use the 3.7L V6 engine. There are some good technical write-ups regarding why this oil is better for the engine so as I'm not an engineer and as the info is already available elsewhere I won't go into it here.
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QS in rotary
Back in the 90's my parents had an RX-7 and the factory recommended QS. The techs said that it was thinner than the other oils on the market and was better suited to the rotary... Maybe that is the problem in a high compression engine, too thin. Interesting?
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A local Nissan dealer where I had my oil changed using Nissan's brand...the service manager provided me a coupon that will give me (I believe...I don't have the coupon in front of me) a $50 rebate after a specified number of oil changes (four I think) from Penzoil for using a Penzoil Platinum product.
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I was surprised when my dealer's service manager handed me the rebate coupon but I have to conclude that the "Nissan Ester oil" is at least some version of Pennzoil Platinum synthetic.
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