Well, I love my car (an Infiniti Q45). Today, to the tune of about $900.
My mechanic, who is that rarest of commodities - an honest man, just called to tell me that I have a bad fuel injector and some bad hoses under my plenum that need to be replaced.
Unfortunately, as brilliant as Infiniti (Nissan) was in building the engine, they made some questionable design decisions.
To wit: one has to remove the intake plenum (about a two hour job) just to get to the fuel injectors (and the hoses that support them). So a job that on a plain old Nissan I could do myself in a parking lot in 15 minutes, is going to take about four hours of labor in the shop and cost about $900.
Fortunately, I haven't needed this done for about 50 or 60 thousand miles. I should think I'll sell the car before I need it again.
Boxster - I'm thinking of you.
Posted by artandscience at February 6, 2007 02:46 PM