Motor finally blew at 397k miles

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05-09-2015, 11:36 PM

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JoshG

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cant wait for the video, dont let us wait too long!

05-10-2015, 07:13 AM

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05-10-2015, 11:09 PM

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do another one of you driving it, that'd be awesome!

05-11-2015, 09:32 AM

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do another one of you driving it, that'd be awesome!

Soon as I fix the muffler gasket. That ish sounds terrible under hard acceleration.

05-11-2015, 10:33 AM

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Glad to hear you stuck with the VQ30. Nearly 400k is very impressive. My brother purchased a 96 i30 with 200k miles. They had really good service records with mostly everything done at an Infiniti/Nissan dealer. My brother asked me if he should be concerned about the miles. I said nope as long as you take care of it.

05-11-2015, 12:29 PM

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well post a video atleast with the muffler gasket problem and then see aftermath, I always like to see before and after.

05-11-2015, 04:43 PM

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Nice.

07-27-2015, 08:17 AM

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Nice to hear your VQ lasted that long!

I have an 01 SE 20th Anniversary with 266K on it... I love my car to death and keep it looking brand new. Got it late in 03 with 80K on it which was already a lot of miles back then for an 01. Neighbors make fun of me cause I'm always wiping the car down or washing it. I dread the day something really bad happens and pray that I can get another 200K+ out of the engine like you did. Way to go!

07-27-2015, 08:20 AM

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Long live the VQ

Correction to my last post 130K+... I don't wanna be stingy (lol).

10-04-2015, 01:45 PM

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Looks like I found the answer to my cold start rattle. My car is a '95 with 282k on it. If anybody in the Bay Area, CA has a desire to help me with this that would be awesome! I'm trying to decide if I am taking this car to FL with me at the end of the year but I want to fix this either way.