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Are you needing to replace rad coolant? Is the rad constantly down? Is the temp gauge reading higher than it used to? If no to all of the above it's just the cold weather making the humid exhaust visible.

 

 

You can change the head gasket yourself with a few tools. It's not difficult or a technical job but if a garage does it... $$$ You should know that it's not normal for a head gasket to blow and likely there is a cause. The likely one being that the aluminum head is slightly warped. The fix is to have it lightly machined to true it up. A garage would just love to add this to their bill weather needed or not..

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Ask the Nissan dealer what they are worth. My rule of thumb is a good auto supply store will charge about half that for the same quality. Don't ever get the cheapest you can find for anything so important and hard to get at as a head gasket. A $2 cigarette lighter from China? No problem if it fails.

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