Need Advice - Buy Car with Low oil pressure light?

[slater98]

Hello everyone, some help and advice please. Just recently sold my '96 maxima that was running great with 211K miles, but rusting out around me, and miss having a manual car to drive...

There is a 2004 G35 sedan 6MT available near me, 177K miles, with low oil pressure light on, for $2000 negotiable. Guy says son got a new car, they didn't want to put money into it, only driven 20 miles since light came on, dipstick shows full. I've only seen pictures, car is a little over an hour from me.

Any guesses as to the most likely cause? I have done some research, and the sensor or oil pump pop up as possibilities. Looks like the oil pump is a fairly "big" job? $1000 at a shop? Sensor I'm sure I could handle.

Is this worth looking at if the car is in otherwise good shape? Anything I should "look for" when I see it? Any words of wisdom or advice are welcome.

Thanks!

[telcoman]

There is a 2004 G35 sedan 6MT available near me, 177K miles, with low oil pressure light on, for $2000 negotiable. !

If it sounds too good to be true it usually is

Is this worth looking at if the car is in otherwise good shape? Anything I should "look for" when I see it? Any words of wisdom or advice are welcome.

Thanks!

My advice is if you are seriously purchasing a 12 year old vehicle that is close to end of life, spend the money to have the vehicle inspected at a local Infiniti dealer and have them run the VIN number.

Unless you have the money for upcoming repairs,ability and tools to do repair work yourself you are looking at a possible disaster.

Why would anyone want to spend possibly thousands of dollars on a vehicle that is almost worthless due to age?

BTW I traded in my 06 G35 6sp manual at 171796 miles because I didn't want to put money on repairs either.
My brand new 2012 came with all new parts and a warranty

Very Happy with my choice

My $.02

Good luck

Telcoman

[audtatious]

Could be an oil pickup or sensor problem. Do some additional searches for oil light issues with the G. As long as you are aware that you may be buying a dud which may need work then you should be OK. $2k is pretty cheap.