redline here as well.

 

I did my first oil change was at 3500 miles using regular oil at the dealership. $50 buck with 5% discount. same here the oil is still not dirty...almost as good as new. 5000 mile interval synthetic oil change is reasonable the way i see it. definitely going with mobil 1 5w30 fully synthetic DIY route.

 

Merged. Again.

 

Maybe we spoke to the same dealer (Beshoff). My question was more focused on the prepaid maintenance plan. He told me that the plan used to include Nissan Ester Oil for 2010 and older G37 models, but they removed that coverage when the 2011 models came out.

One technical paper I found claims that ester-containing (1% by mass) PAO-base 5W30 oil combined with the non-hydrogenated DLC coating used in the VQ37VHR engine produces super low friction. The same low friction is not observed when using different DLC coating, or different oils (conventional or PAO without ester) with the same coating. From all reports, the Nissan Ester Oil is conventional oil with ester additive, so it's likely that it's the added ester not the base stock that makes the difference. Since the amount of friction without using ester-added oil is not higher than normal, I think it makes sense that Infiniti is not requiring but only recommending it.




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Using motul 8100xmax right now. Does not fix the vvel tick. Gonna try 300v when it warms up

 

I cant believe how many people apparently still use Mobil1.

 

Yeah the m1 thing surprises me too....i think the best m1 for our cars is the 0w40 but I don't want to run that while the car is under warranty.

I agree the ester thing is an additive not base stock...valvoline and pennzoil have said two of their products meet or exceed nissans requirement and those products are not ester based so it must be something in their additive packs

 

advisor at infiniti informed me that ester is no longer required. it has to do with reprogramming your computer which eliminates the ticking. dealer use a syntec blend; review the code on your maint doc

 

^^ it was never required, it just stopped the ticking noise

 

just switched to PP 5w30...dealership uses Castrol synthetic blend for their regular oil...for premium oil change, they use Nissan Ester or PP

 

I've used the Nissan ester oil after the dealer ship service manager told me they had knocking problems with this engine in europe with non ester-oil products, but he wasn't for sure if this was accurate and I always take the dealership with ??.

 

Redline is the best of both worlds
Fully synthetic and is ester based like like nissan ester oil.

 

What's the vvel tick ??

 

What's wrong with mobil 1

 

I was told by dealer to use regular cheap oil. That was the best for the motor