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Originally Posted by E-ternal-3
Any idea what they changed that could have rectified the issue?
I ask cause my 02 Pathfinder is burnin and I am trying to find out why. There is so much info on this but unfortunately no solid solutions on why this could be happening.  |
Nissan has always had issues with the 3.5 in general whether its FWD or RWD.
The 01-04 Pathfinders are a hit and a miss. Some burn a liter every 1500KMs some wont burn any between oil changes. You'd be surprised the amount that come in for oil changes that have maybe 1-1.5 liters oil in them. Your timing chain probably rattles too, i can count on one hand the vq35 pathfinders that dont have any chain noise..maybe 3-4 in 8 years.
I think out of all the 3.5's the Muranos are the worst. I dont know if its just the way the CVT loads up the engine low rpm, cuz the ping the most out of any 3.5 ive driven.
In the FWD's a common thing to happen is the pre-cats will start to fall apart and get sucked back into the engine and score the cylinder walls, which ended up resulting in high/excessive oil consumption. Cats are covered up to 8yr 130K but the engine is only covered to 5yr 100k, so there were a lot of pissed customers.