Re: [MBZ] OT How far can a Nissan Murano go with no coolant?
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 >> 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
Re: [MBZ] OT How far can a Nissan Murano go with no coolant?
People have been trained to ignore the appearance of impending doom since the fact-checkers keep telling us that "everything is awesome". Greg > 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
Re: [MBZ] OT How far can a Nissan Murano go with no coolant?
No, after I changed solenoids and fluid it was sorta OK but still inop. She ended up getting a bit for it from a shop she took it to, and bought a Honda Fit --FT On 3/26/22 9:38 AM, mitch--- via Mercedes wrote: On 2022-03-26 09:29, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: Nissan CVTs are prone to failure. Ask me how I know! Your friend's car just had a fried solenoid, didn't it? I wonder how many are worn out through bad design, hard driving or lack of maintenance vs how many have a MBZ style electrical failure. A friend is the original owner of a 2013 Sentra (made after the bad ones that got extended warranties, so he's been on his own the last six years). Dealer fluid changes every 30kmi and no problems except for the occasional dead battery that's probably operator error. Had something like 110k on it last summer so you'd expect zero major failures in that time on any decent car. ___ 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 -- --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
Re: [MBZ] OT How far can a Nissan Murano go with no coolant?
On 2022-03-26 09:29, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: Nissan CVTs are prone to failure. Ask me how I know! Your friend's car just had a fried solenoid, didn't it? I wonder how many are worn out through bad design, hard driving or lack of maintenance vs how many have a MBZ style electrical failure. A friend is the original owner of a 2013 Sentra (made after the bad ones that got extended warranties, so he's been on his own the last six years). Dealer fluid changes every 30kmi and no problems except for the occasional dead battery that's probably operator error. Had something like 110k on it last summer so you'd expect zero major failures in that time on any decent car. ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT How far can a Nissan Murano go with no coolant?
Nissan CVTs are prone to failure. Ask me how I know! --FT Sent from iFōn > On Mar 26, 2022, at 8:50 AM, mitch--- via Mercedes > wrote: > > On 2022-03-25 21:44, 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. > > I thought they were known for premature CVT failure. > > ___ > 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
Re: [MBZ] OT How far can a Nissan Murano go with no coolant?
Possibly that too. Don’t most or all CVTs generally fail early. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 26, 2022, at 8:50 AM, mitch--- via Mercedes > wrote: > > On 2022-03-25 21:44, 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. > > I thought they were known for premature CVT failure. > > ___ > 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
Re: [MBZ] OT How far can a Nissan Murano go with no coolant?
On 2022-03-25 21:44, 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. I thought they were known for premature CVT failure. ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT How far can a Nissan Murano go with no coolant?
I have a sister in law who is on their second Murano. Although I don’t know what year their first one was, I do know they put several hundred thousand miles on it without issues. Don’t know a thing about them, other than the weird convertible variant they came out with was one of the fugliest things I think I’ve ever seen. -D > On Mar 25, 2022, at 9:44 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 >> 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
Re: [MBZ] OT How far can a Nissan Murano go with no coolant?
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 > 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
Re: [MBZ] OT How far can a Nissan Murano go with no coolant?
Couple weeks ago I see a Challenger in the mirror trailing a cloud. Not a vision obscuring cloud, but still one that I noticed while it was a good bit behind me. Killed the fan and put the heater in recirc to lessen the burning oil smell as it went by. Was surprised to find that the smoke didn't seem to be coming from the exhaust outlets, and that it smelled exactly like a cutoff wheel cutting steel, not like burning oil. Couple miles later, I see...a Challenger parked on the shoulder. A story from the 1980s: Car on the ramp in front of me has a wildly wobbling driver's front wheel. Was going to pull up alongside her and try to communicate once we hit the freeway, but I was going 65 in a 55 and she outran me. She didn't make it a mile on the freeway. Wheel went rolling down the median, and the brake disk threw sparks on the concrete every time she touched the brakes. It seemed to stay just above the road as long as she didn't brake. IIRC it was FWD, like a Citation or something. No, I didn't stop. ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT How far can a Nissan Murano go with no coolant?
You did more than I would have done. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 25, 2022, at 2:59 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > 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
Re: [MBZ] OT How far can a Nissan Murano go with no coolant?
One of my high school English teachers told the story about how when she got her first car nobody ever told her she needed to check the oil so she drove it until it ran out of oil and the engine locked up. Her second car she checked the oil religiously and added every time it needed but nobody ever told her she needed to CHANGE the oil so that one locked up too. I asked her "Why didn't you ever read the manual?" She didn't like that... -Curt On Friday, March 25, 2022, 04:30:37 PM EDT, Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote: That sounds like the joke that I read on the net a few days ago. It goes something like this: I was driving down the road and as I passed a lady riding a bicycle I yelled "COW". She gave me a dirty look and the finger. Then she rode smack into the back of the cow that was in front of her. Oh Well, I tried. On 25/03/2022 2:58 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes 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... > ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT How far can a Nissan Murano go with no coolant?
That sounds like the joke that I read on the net a few days ago. It goes something like this: I was driving down the road and as I passed a lady riding a bicycle I yelled "COW". She gave me a dirty look and the finger. Then she rode smack into the back of the cow that was in front of her. Oh Well, I tried. On 25/03/2022 2:58 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes 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... ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] OT How far can a Nissan Murano go with no coolant?
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
