If engines are still similar to the V6 in my '04 Frontier, the oil capacity is only a bit over 3 quarts. Not a lot iof safety buffer if you get low.
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022, at 8:44 PM, Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes wrote: > A friend’s wife has a murano. They are known for premature engine > failure- they burn excessive amounts of oil. He had the engine rebuilt. > Andrew- this is Gaël I’m referring to. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 25, 2022, at 4:18 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> Put him in for a Darwin award. >> >>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 3:59 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < >>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> Was driving this afternoon, there was NM in front of me, I smelled >>> coolant then noticed it was spraying out from under the NM. I caught up >>> to the car (it was going 50 in a 35) and honked several times and was >>> waving to pull over. Did not do that, was still spewing some coolant at >>> that point. A coupla miles down the road we hit the backup at a light, >>> no more coolant spewing, so I got out and went up to the guy and told >>> him what I was seeing, his car was probably overheating and he should >>> pull over and stop. He looks at the temp gauge and it is stuck a the >>> bottom on C, he says well it looks OK. I say well I'm guessing you have >>> no coolant so the sensor is not seeing coolant temperature, you need to >>> pull over and shut off the car before you destroy the engine. Light >>> changes, he gets back in and takes off with a bit of steam blowing out >>> the bottom of the radiator or a hose or something. >>> >>> Oh well, I tried... >>> >>> -- >>> --FT >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
