New 6 cylinder in the RAM does not have a dip stick.Does not it have a physical dipstick?
2025 Nissan Armada
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Yep-the turbo charge motor does not have a dipstick.
https://www.theautopian.com/the-new...snt-have-a-dipstick-and-that-just-bothers-me/
Sorry to bring it up then. But I stated RAM because somebody brought up the dipstick thing.
I feel as though Nissan would do much better if they produced all of their vehicles the way the Armada is.
Great News for Nissan!
Can you link us?
TFL truck.com. It may not be on the first page now-just scroll down.
That is absolutely hilarious and true..
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I wouldn't, the vk56vd is a piece of junk. They all knock and scuff the hell out of their cylinder walls. After nearly 15 consecutive years, I quit the brand/left the dealer for the independent world over that engine in the armada, titan and v8 NV van. NTB19-057, that's the tsb for shortblock replacement for knocking noise. It paid like 23.5 hours to replace the biggest/heaviest and most complicated mass produced shortblock nissan had ever used at the time. It was robbery from us techs and on top of that, the redesigned shortblocks always slapped too from day one. I did 7 before I took my ball and went somewhere else. Keep your '14, fix whatever it needs because you'll never find that quality in a vk56vd powered nissan, only the vk56de.
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With an average speed of 33mph for that length of time and distance, was there a lot of stop/go involved?
I am sorry you had such bad experiences with warranty work, and hope you will be happier at your new location.
If the engine was this bad in a statistically meaningful way, there would have been a revolt in the middle East and australia, where LOTS of people drive them and pay a lot more for them than we do.
Also JD Powers now judges Nissan ahead of Toyota at least in initial quality.
Major engine issues in big trucks and SUVs are currently a Toyota/Lexus problem.
I bought my vehicle specifcally to get a VK56VD due to the glowing reviews from all over the world, including countries where these vehicles are used as desert runners.
PS: I am aware of the issue with the number 7 cylinder but I understand those were the early VK56VD. The engine is now 8 model years old.
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Discussion I had with German Russian friends eons ago. They were driving a company W211 E-270Cdi, car was eight or nine months old with 50k miles on it.
- So, any issues with the Benz ?
- Nooo, we love it, perfect car for fast travel. Very solid. No issues whatsoever. Well, the ECU broke twice, we're at our third one
- ?!?!?!
- Ah, and the turbo exploded once, we're at our second one.
- ?????
- Otherwise perfect car, perfect. We have a second one ordered.
- You guys do realize those are major failures, right ???
- Well, friend, it can happen to any car. We're happy. It's a good car. Perfect car.
Just saying. In countries with lower hourly rates for mechanical jobs the paradigm shifts big time.
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What OCI are you following with your KV56VD? I know the port injected Nissan 5.6's were legendary engines, but I've seen some horrific GDI version tear-downs.
I realize it's not a V8, but I'm a little gun shy with some Nissan GDI V6s, such as the VQ35DD. I owned one and participated on related forums for years, trying to help people through sludge related problems with that specific engine, where you never saw these issues with the earlier port injected VQ35DE.
On the other hand, the VQ38DD in my 2022 Frontier seems to be doing well and staying clean. Only have ~60K miles on it at this point though.
I follow 5000 mile OCIs.
That seems a bit short, but its actually not since my do a lot of very short trips, interrupted by two 40 mile drives a week that I intentionally kick it up to at 90-100 mph to help "blow it out" a bit.
(am in Germany).
The greater risk of dirty engine is IMHO the price you pay for an extra 83 hp over the port injected versions.
A trade off I am willing to accept.
On Nicoclub.com we have a nissanmaster tech that says the valve deposit issue is not too bad for this DI engine and the dealership cleaning solution to it, is both affordable and effective.
He has been "with us" on the forum, for many years has helped countless people and is highly trusted there and he will not steer us wrong.
While I was aware of a valve deposit issue that is common to all DI engines (some more than others) I was not tracking any sludge issues for the VK56VD.
But my use case is hard, so we will see.
At least I use a PAO 40 weight oil which dimishes sludge threats.
I am also hopeful the 40 weight oil will both lessen the occurence of fuel dilution a bit and also help manage the conseqences of the fuel dilution that does occur.
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