Nissan CA18DET

13 discussions on MotorsForum about the Nissan CA18DET: what owners asked, what went wrong, and what fixed it.

What owners report

New to me auto.

Just got a car fitted with a 7 speed twin clutch twin layshaft automated synchro gearbox. Which they call a PDK. Last version of this I drove some years ago was a single clutch type (BMW SMG), which was dreadfully clunky at lowish speeds....

The perfect garage.

I have a friend who has welding gear, a lathe, and many many tools in his garage (No room for car or bike, only the pushbike!). Slight overkill perhaps, but he swears by it.What do you consider essential to have in the garage?

mondeo engine failure: what to do next?

Hello, I had to be towed home last night. My 60 plate, 2 litre diesel Mondeo developed a rattling sound; I pulled over as quickly as was safe to do so, only to find that there had been a catastrophic oil leak. A garage has looked at the car...

Battery connected up wrong way round!

Dont know how I did this but I did.... It even started. Then I noticed the smoke. Stopped engine quickly and whipped leads off battery.... Under the bonnet seems OK. Cant see anything. Likely to be any damage? Anything that I can check. I'm...

So what engine would YOU use?

I've recently acquired yet another Herald, which brings the total to eleven.The car is reasonably solid but scruffy with filler in wheelarches and apoor interior. There was just a couple of days MOT left when I bought it,though that's now...

RX7 engine life and rebuild costs ?

FOAF has recently (two weeks ago) bought himself an RX7 - fairly recentcurvy sort, but with some mileage on it. Anyway, the obvious hashappened - it died on the road and came home on a low-loader, sufferingfrom sick rotor seals.1) I...

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