Well broke down and traded the Nissan SE-R SPEC-V

[YAMAHAULER]

doesn't white mean lean warriorgirl?

 

[warriorgirl09]

yep... OR burning water

 

[YAMAHAULER]

better not be the head gaskets going I'll be ******* pissed

 

[warriorgirl09]

lol are all the plugs white? or what?

 

[YAMAHAULER]

the 3 on the front side are can't get the back 3 out without taking the back half of the intake off

 

[YAMAHAULER]

you would think if coolant was leaking into at least 3 of the 6 cylinders she'd be running ruff or blowing white smoke and overheating 1 or all of those things right? and of course white milky oil and the oil is gold color and clean no milky residue on the bottom of oil fill cap or dip stick

 

[YAMAHAULER]

well I will have them pressurize the coolant system and see if there is a leak in the head gaskets and if there is they better say it will be covered and taken care of.
I've only had the damn thing for 3 days would it be considered a LEMON?
I don't even know if the lemon law exists in Wisconsin

 

[warriorgirl09]

lol dude if it was burning that much water youd know it! it's just running a touch lean

 

[duneracerweston]

I blame the EPA and fuel economy.

 

[YAMAHAULER]

so is it normal for this car? no ses light and I have hooked up my obdII meter and everything checks out normal usually lean would mean a bad 02 sensor or 1 other sensor right

 

[duneracerweston]

Most new model cars a tuned lean to meet EPA requirements, so id say swap the plugs and run it, doesn't look that bad to me.

 

[Gen1Pat]

And if you were buring that much coolant, on 3 cylinders, you would have a deffinet misfire situation. And for all the cylinders on one side to have an internal coolant leak, you'd be going through coolant (a), would most likely have coolant in the oil (b), and chances are high that the cylinders would fill with coolant and hydrolock (c), it'd also be a bitch to start (d). I'm sure if you pulled the upper plenum and removed the rear plugs they'd look the same.

 

[YAMAHAULER]

yeah everything checks out Gen coolant is always at the full mark and no milky oil
but the coolant in this thing is medium to dark red ? is that some new kind of coolant or just something Toyota uses? and when I looked up the plug reader diagrams that is a good running plug just might be a little to hot of a plug which explains the white so rule of thumb is to go to the next cooler plug and there is a big sticker under the hood that says use only IRIDIUM spark plugs in this car haha could you recomend what plug I should use? I was gonna go with the NGK IRIDIUM IX that's what I ran in my nissan and never had any issues in the 2 and a half years I had it.
I still think they should have done a tune up on it during inspection:tdown:

http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/we...rk-plug-ngk_18090104-p?searchTerm=spark+plugs

 

[Gen1Pat]

Just run the ngk iridiums. I these newer cars run a little lean becuase of the emissons ********, so the iridiums help to last longer. They also have a MUCH more powerfull iginition system then the cars of yesteryear, which means that the gap is going to be bigger, so the iridium plugs are made to handle that. Just stick with em, no better plug out there in my opinion. And yes, that is the color of the Toyota anitfreeze. They're dark red, nissan is dark green, gm is orange (dexcool), honda has gone to blue, volkswagon is pinkish, and everyone else is some shade of green or orange, most of em anyway. And btw, that toyota **** is expensive!

 

[YAMAHAULER]

And btw, that toyota **** is expensive! that's what I was thinking but here are some parts I found and compared to my nissan the parts for this Toy are way cheaper so far unless you know what parts are expensive?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/94-04-3-0-T...alon|Submodel:XLS&hash=item2eb16e5a58&vxp=mtr

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-PCS-IGNIT...alon|Submodel:XLS&hash=item3cba533b52&vxp=mtr

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Camry-Sienn...alon|Submodel:XLS&hash=item588f06bedc&vxp=mtr

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Complete-4p...alon|Submodel:XLS&hash=item1c2ae8448d&vxp=mtr

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-O2-Oxyg...alon|Submodel:XLS&hash=item3a7149b1bd&vxp=mtr

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-0-TOYOTA-...alon|Submodel:XLS&hash=item2eb494db31&vxp=mtr

 

[warriorgirl09]

Just run the ngk iridiums. I these newer cars run a little lean becuase of the emissons ********, so the iridiums help to last longer. They also have a MUCH more powerfull iginition system then the cars of yesteryear, which means that the gap is going to be bigger, so the iridium plugs are made to handle that. Just stick with em, no better plug out there in my opinion. And yes, that is the color of the Toyota anitfreeze. They're dark red, nissan is dark green, gm is orange (dexcool), honda has gone to blue, volkswagon is pinkish, and everyone else is some shade of green or orange, most of em anyway. And btw, that toyota **** is expensive!

another reason i like my older vehicles... just poor some anti freeze in and go!

 

[YAMAHAULER]

oh gen meant the red antifreeze is expensive now I feel dumb lol
I've never seen it before so where do ya get it?

 

[duneracerweston]

Im gonna guess Toyota

 

[YAMAHAULER]

Holy ****!! almost $30 a gallon!!

http://www.drivewire.com/vehicle/2002-toyota-avalon/coolant-antifreeze/

 

[88WarriorBoy]

lol I make rad coolant that is $40 a gallon lol it's purple LMAO