Wes's Q is Dead

[Jesda]

I just got a disturbing choppy-sounding voicemail from Wes. He said his Q was dead, gone forever. He said he was going down to visit Fred today.

Holy crap. I wonder what happened.

[louiegz]

Wow! That sucks. I hope Wes is OK.

[DAEDALUS]

Bah. He secretly killed it so he could convince his parents to let him buy Fred's Q.

j/k. Hope it all works out OK Wes.

[Jesda]

He called back, he said he'd post the whole detailed photographed story when he gets home, and he could probably explain it better than me.

[Rex]

I saw it Saturday and it looked okay. I hope he's okay.

This can't be good .

[Altiman94]

I am now in a world of wonderment as to what has happened.

[nuQ]

wes,,,hope you're ok!!!!! fill us in on what happened,,,,,,quick!!!!

[Altiman94]

come on wes, let us know what happened.

[louiegz]

If this was April 1st and I was reading this in the Lincoln Forum, I'd think this was a very bad joke. C,mon what happened? When do we start the "Get Wes a new 94 Q fund"?

[metaverse3]

Hope he is okay...no accident or anything catastrophical..

[PalmerWMD]

No accident , but his car died.

I'll let him post pics and tell story.

Fred...

[90Q45blue]

Holy crap what the hell could have happened?

Nick

[DAEDALUS]

I dunno, but the body's not even cold yet and Jesda has a memorial and epitaph in his sig!

[HeavyDuty]

OK, I'll bite. What happened Wes?

[redmanfx]

I'll bite too. What exactly does Dead forever mean??

red

[PalmerWMD]

I'l let Wes post it all in a story.

Fred

[carlos_knology]

That sucks. Wes was taking good care of that car. I'm sure he's spent a lot of money doing so.

Hopefully, he'll peek in here soon and fill us all in.

Carlos

[elwesso]

I am completely speechless.... New thread comnig

[rydwhite]

A moment of silence is order.

[kotex]

It's a blessing that nobody bought that perfect condition POS. You've been trying to pitch it for months. Same thing happened to the good Doctor Ken from Ohio. He was trying to sale his perfectly conditioned Q and it croaked all of a sudden.

[Jesda]

I thought it was pretty perfect, except the seats. I guess the last owner's sludging and resulting engine wear was worse than I thought.

[louiegz]

It's a blessing that nobody bought that perfect condition POS. You've been trying to pitch it for months. Same thing happened to the good Doctor Ken from Ohio. He was trying to sale his perfectly conditioned Q and it croaked all of a sudden.

That's unfair. I don't think Wes was trying to pull a fast one. If he knew the car was in bad shape, why would he be racing?

[kotex]

I never said he didn't "think" it was in good shape. I merely stated that it's good that he didn't sale it. Especially to one of us. Because the buyer would have ended up with a time bomb POS. That is all I was saying and that is a "fair" statement.

I'm sure that Wes would rather have it this way than to be getting emails and phone calls from a disgruntled buyer with an expired Q.

[PalmerWMD]

It is true Wes would ahve rather had it this way.

It is clear the original owner didnt give it a lot of oil changes.

That may have been the reason with Ken's Q as well.

I liked Kens Q a lot and almost bought it.

Ken even sent me his Q's speakers for free after his car died.

Fred..

[1qckser]

WES knew months ago that his engine had a huge sludge problem ( was this to be made aware to a potential buyer?), but I thought he had started weekly oil changes or the Environ flush treatment, just like Q45TECH said, if it took 100,000 miles to get like that one treatment wont do a thing, Im just glade for Wes that no one purchased it with this problem then came back and haunted him about it.

[qship96]

many good lessons to be learned here.

anyone who buys a high mileage car,especially a 32valve dohc imported v8 without complete service history proving basic services such as regular oil changes,is taking a huge risk{ Wes only got eleven thousand miles out of his q experience}

look at signs hinting of problems to come-wes has posted many times of indicators of doom-oil light staying on at startup,fresh oil turning black within 2000 miles of being changed,puffs of smoke out the exhaust,visible sludge buildup on engine internals,etc-he seemed to want to believe his car was close to PERFECT mechanically,ignoring the telltale signs of abuse and neglect from previous owner.you cant START overmaintaining a car that has many miles of poor servicing and expect not to have problems.

[psychic_mechanic]

A moment of silence for the once-neglected engine.

[90Q45blue]

I think it's important to point out that Wes is not to blame, the previous owner is. It is also important to note that Wes found NICO after he purchased the car, so there weren't 19,000 people telling him to get service records or else. I've been lucky with my Q's. My first one was a 2 owner car and previous owner was my dad . And now I have all the service records from Day 1 on my 91 Q.

You can't make up for crappy maintenance that's for sure, but let's just hope Wes gets another Q and it's better maintained.

Nick

[maxnix]

I think it's important to point out that Wes is not to blame, the previous owner is. It is also important to note that Wes found NICO after he purchased the car, so there weren't 19,000 people telling him to get service records or else. I've been lucky with my Q's. My first one was a 2 owner car and previous owner was my dad . And now I have all the service records from Day 1 on my 91 Q.

You can't make up for crappy maintenance that's for sure, but let's just hope Wes gets another Q and it's better maintained.

Nick

Documented Service History is more important than color, year or model.

Only thing as important is the inspection by a senior Infiniti technician. Reading all posts on this board is mandatory for anyone who wants to be an informed buyer. You will save thousands of dollars!

Thank you NICO. Q45tech, and all contributors!

[szh]

Documented Service History is more important than color, year or model.

Sometimes, even that is not enough. My first Q in 1991 was a new car and I maintained it per the requirements and it ran well - I should have kept it. It even had all "extra-early-fluid-change" paranoia stuff that I do to all my cars!

In 1998, I made the mistake of trading it in for a 1995 Q45 (a lease return with about 3 years of service.) I looked at the maintenance records that Frontier Infiniti printed for me, and the lessors had done scheduled maintenance and had only a few minor problems, but I failed to note that they had not done any transmission fluid changes. Needless to say, that was the major thing that went on that car (and the steering rack, but that may have been road mishap related.) even though I did transmissions flushes (one at 60k miles and one at 90k miles - the third one after the transmission appeared to be slipping at 104k did not help, of course!)

Only thing as important is the inspection by a senior Infiniti technician.

If you can find one you can trust - I am very jealous of all the folks within driving distance of T3 in Atlanta.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that at 98k on the 1995 Q45, I had the dealer do their "many hundred point inspection" to see if there was anything that could possibly be acting up, just before I went off the 100k warranty. They did not find anything wrong, yet within 5k miles, the transmission died! Argh!

Thank you NICO. Q45tech, and all contributors!

Yes!!! Most definitely.

Z