TCM $$$??? & Oil burning

[brymax]

I called the dealer for the 1st time since I bought my Q to see what had been done on my car by the 1st owner in the way of service.

Last tune-up was @ 22K miles.I'm now @ 44K miles. Sweet! They want $800 to do the 30K mile service.

I asked if the TCM (Acceleration Hesitation) service bulletin had ever been addressed. They said "No" and I could pay $117 to see if my car needed it.I asked if it did, how much would it be. They said they didn't know but would be able to quote me a price after they checked it out.

That's usually code for, "Once you've committed to the $117 and we have your car disassembled, we'll then drop the bomb on you".

How much should I expect to pay for this?

Also, on that burning oil issue. Remember my car was burning oil like crazy??

Dealer said, "unless you see smoke or see signs of a leak, that is normal for that car to burn oil. You just gotta keep an eye on it".

Huh???

1-2 quarts of oil every 3 tanks of gas is "Normal".Wadda-ya-think?

[maxnix]

Read the posts. You can request they monitor the oil consumption which they do by sealing the oil cap. If they don't snap to, call Infiniti customer service today.

The throttle ECU programming TSB applies to only a certain run of early 2002 Q45 ditermined by VIN. The TSB has been posted previously if you don't have it. It is about $900 - $1100 if the owner pays when car is out of warranty.

Time to get busy.

[brymax]

Read the posts. You can request they monitor the oil consumption which they do by sealing the oil cap. If they don't snap to, call Infiniti customer service today.

The throttle ECU programming TSB applies to only a certain run of early 2002 Q45 ditermined by VIN. The TSB has been posted previously if you don't have it. It is about $900 - $1100 if the owner pays when car is out of warranty.

Time to get busy.

"$900 - $1100"??!!

You know, it hesitates when I get on the gas.........

But it doesn't hesitate that much!!!

[maxnix]

"$900 - $1100"??!!

You know, it hesitates when I get on the gas.........

But it doesn't hesitate that much!!!

That is the symptom it cures. Part of the hesitation is due to the throttle pedal being pivoted at the lower end of the throttle lever. Many drivers would tip their toe in and were in fact just rotating the pedal without depressing the lever, hence a partial cause of the sense of "hesitation." If you still have this pedal arrangement, then you don't have the TSB work done to your car. The TSB changed the throttle pedal to a non-rotating arrangement fixed to the throttle lever so that any movement of the throttle pedal would move the lever. There is no diagnosis or charge. Either you car qualifies by VIN or it doesn't.

Look up the TSB. It is two previous combined into one. Why it is worth the $20 one day fee to download the TSB and FSM and other goodies from Nissan.

Very important to read the previous posts on this board!

[brymax]

I have read up on this throttle issue and know about the pedal pivot correction. My hesitation is more like when you put the pedal to the floor and it does nothing. But I will look into it further.

Thanks and I hear ya on the search thing. But check it out....

- Some times the search option doesn't work so well. - Some times it does, but it could take you quite some time to read through everything trying to get the info you seek and perhaps people don't have that kind of time at that very moment.- Honestly, some times I just forget to use the search option.- Maybe I don't care about what someone said about this issue here in this forum back in 2004.- Maybe I'm more interested in an experience someone had similar to mine, like yesterday.

But whatever the reason someone has for posting, the cool thing about responding to posts is that it is like listening to the radio. It's all very optional. If you don't like it, you don't have to respond. I wouldn't be offended if I didn't get your feedback. I'll still send ya a X-mas card.

Newbies (I guess I'm still one) ask questions that have been asked and answered before all the time. No big.

Sometimes I respond. Sometimes I don't. It's all very optional.I like that!

Oh yeah, and your little search button there??It doesn't do anything.

[96Qowner]

But whatever the reason someone has for posting, the cool thing about responding to posts is that it is like listening to the radio. It's all very optional. If you don't like it, you don't have to respond. I wouldn't be offended if I didn't get your feedback. I'll still send ya a X-mas card.

LOL! You have some mastery of the English language, brymax. Thanks for the chuckle.

Here's a thread that should interest you:

How to turn a new Infiniti Q45 into an E55

[brymax]

LOL! You have some mastery of the English language, brymax. Thanks for the chuckle.

Here's a thread that should interest you:

How to turn a new Infiniti Q45 into an E55

Yeah, I've been told I'm quite the cunnilinguist.

I reserve the right to redirect conversations I feel are too serious toward a more comical path, if I so see fit.

Doesn't make me a bad person. It's just who I be.

[maxnix]

1.) Some times the search option doesn't work so well.

2.) Some times it does, but it could take you quite some time to read through everything trying to get the info you seek and perhaps people don't have that kind of time at that very moment.

3.) Maybe I don't care about what someone said about this issue here in this forum back in 2004.

4.) Maybe I'm more interested in an experience someone had similar to mine, like yesterday.

1.) There is a great tutorial by Rex. Avoid the Google search.

2.) We have accumulated a lot of flotsam the last 3 or 4 years ("You've got mai!" - as if the recipient wouldn't know otherwise ) So you have to skim. Posts by Q45tech are compulsory reading and by TexasOil if you have active model or don't understand the difference between Lubeguard Red and Lubeguard Black.

3.) Then you don't learn much, do you? Very few failures are new unless the abuse that caused them is unique.

4.) See 3.) above. Your choice as it is your car.

"Member's standards vary." - Q45tech

Don't cry when the pablum is no longer offered on a spoon.
Modified by maxnix at 6:49 AM 11/30/2007

[Skibane]

1-2 quarts of oil every 3 tanks of gas is "Normal".Wadda-ya-think?

Definitely NOT "normal"!

[brymax]

1.) There is a great tutorial by Rex. Avoid the Google search.

2.) We have accumulated a lot of flotsam the last 3 or 4 years ("You've got mai!" - as if the recipient wouldn't know otherwise ) So you have to skim. Posts by Q45tech are compulsory reading and by TexasOil if you have active model or don't understand the difference between Lubeguard Red and Lubeguard Black.

3.) Then you don't learn much, do you? Very few failures are new unless the abuse that caused them is unique.

4.) See 3.) above. Your choice as it is your car.

"Member's standards vary." - Q45tech

Don't cry when the pablum is no longer offered on a spoon.

Modified by maxnix at 6:49 AM 11/30/2007

See now you're just slinging your obviously extensive vocabulary around in an effort to impress.

Uh, OK. I'm impressed. I guess.

Although, I'm more partial to the nature of Skibane's response."No. Not normal".

Quick. To the point. End it. And move on.I like that! I know what to do with that.

Thank you.