Just thought I would relay this story and see if it sounds about right.

I found water leaking form my car. Took it to Nissan today. They called
and said it was the water pump. My immediate reply, "well cool, nothing
major". WRONG!

Little did I know that you have to take the front of the engine off to
fix it. Although it has 183000 miles on it, who came up with the idea of
putting a commonly failed part behind the timing chain?

Hammer number 2, he made the comment that he is surprised the car is
still moving. I don't understand what he was telling other than the CV
joint were dry and about warn to a point of separating. I thought CV
joints were similar to U joints. Once again, I am wrong.

I will let you know more after the fourteen hundred dollar saga is over,
or do you think I am spending too much?

Fred

Fred Wilson wrote:

The water pump failed after 183000 miles. That's common? Also, did you
use only Nissan recommended coolant, or just threw anything, like
Prestone, in there? You will find that Japanese cars use silicate free
coolants, and the regular green prestone is not silicate free. Further,
you may notices that the orange Prestone is silicate free, but is only
recommended for GM cars with long life coolant. Dont put that stuff in
a Nissan.

CD

On 1 Nov 2006 08:11:57 -0800, codifus (AT) optonline (DOT) net wrote:

So what SHOULD one put in a Nissan if not green and not orange?

OEM Nissan coolant is green... it is just formulated to be
silicate-free... which typically none of the off the shelf (prestone
etc.) brands are...

In this case it's not the color, but the composition that is important.

Nirav

"njmodi" <njmodi2 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:


you can not use Nissan OEM coolant - because its 5 dollars a gallon
more,,,!!!!!!!!!

$5 extra every 30 or 40K miles,,, almost the cost of 2 gallons of
gas,,,a real budget breaker,,,LOL

use Nissan OEM coolant,,not that stuff they sell at Checker.