I'm a single female with a Nissan Juke problem or a series of issues. It's a 2013 Nissan Juke the one that has the turbo. It has 134,000 miles on it. It started burning oil like crazy and ticking. I was told the timing chain had a small amount of play in it. During this time the serpentine belt broke and I had it as well as the alternator replaced. After that work was done it never idled again correctly. I took it back in and they got it semi straightened out as far as the idling went but not perfect . Literally the next week I wake up with oil covering the driveway. It was dripping from under the passengers side of the car and was on the wheel as well. The underneath of the car was covered in oil. The" oil change place" told me it was a cracked engine cover from the timing chain. I'm assuming they meant cracked timing chain cover. Yet it still seemed to drive fine.
I started loading it full of oil and continuing to drive it while I looked for another car. It then started hissing or making a sound of air being released. This has happened a couple times now and I've parked it completely. When it did this hissing the engine light popped on and it died. The light turned back off before I got home. Both times we were idling when this happened. I didn't see any signs the engine was over heating but what do I know. Anyways I just lost my job and this is a bad time for my car to quit. Any ideas what is going on or advice? I am watching your show now daily and begining to learn. I'm actually quite obsessed but as a female I have yet to brave any mechanic work on my car.
It sounds like that engine is just plain worn out. If not overheating the hissing sound could be from a vacuum leak. A large vacuum leak would cause the engine to stall out.
Those "oil change places" are not qualified to diagnose or work on your car - including doing oil changes. It would not surprise me at all if they stripped the threads in your oil drain plug.
You can use UV dye to find the source of the oil leak, but if it's leaking that badly the dye may not even be necessary to see where it's pouring out from.
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