2003 murano SL burning oil

[kinchy1]

1 year ago, before my extended warrany of 160000 km was due the Murano started burning oil , no smoke, a fast ticking noise at the initial start up of the vehicle, which soon goes away. The dealer said that I would be responsible for the tear down of the engine at the time if the problem was discovered to be a non-warrranty issue with the inspection of the engine and the related parts within ( is that normal procedure to advise you that you may have to pay for this?) Oil cunsumption test was performed and was deemed that it was burning oil......DAH!!!

I choose not to get it fixed for fear of a large bill to tear down and rebuild or replace the engine. Now, over a year later and still putting in oil , I am not pleased with the vehicle and the oil cunsumption ( I carry a 4 liter bottle of oil in the back always). I am now 25 k over my warranty. So that is long gone , but I feel that the "PEACE OF MIND "....Warranty ...did not give me peace of mind ...

Any info as to what the oil burning can be from????

[nafddur]

Burning oil is VERY rare on Nissan VQ engines, especially (relatively) low mileage ones like you have. That is the same basic engine used on a number of Nissan models.

Have you had this car since it was new? (in other words, do you know the complete oil change history to date?)

[kinchy1]

Hi, I purchased this murano used, with 93 k on it already, that was approximately 4 1/2 years ago. I have always kept the scheduled maintenance. previous to that I am unsure. I did buy through a dealer.