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Old 10-14-2006, 12:02 PM
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Default 2002 pathfinder oil consumption

This is my very first post ever and I'm hopeing someone else out there can help me. I own a 2002 pathfinder witch I bought new. It has had all maintenance and oil changes done by dealer on regular basis. One year ago around 45,000 miles my oil light flickered, when I checked the dipstick it was bone dry. It has been in and out of the dealer service dept. since. They told me oil was slow to drain back down in this motor and should check oil when cold, they have replaced the pcv valve and the problem seemed to be fixed, for awhile. A couple of weeks ago my oil light flickered again, promptly returned home and parked, let sit overnight and checked oil. Bone dry again.
Back to the dealer. They changed oil and kept vehicle for a week and had a tech drive it with no oil loss. With less than a 1,000 miles have lost a quart of oil, went back to dealer and they topped of oil. Now I'm waiting to hear back as to what is next. Has any one else had this problem? What should I expect from Nissan? This is my 2nd pathfinder, I drove a 1988 for 14 years and my husband drove a 86 Nissan PU untill we replaced it with a 2006 Frontier. I expected to get 10-15 years out of this one. Thanks
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