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today whilst idling the car on a slight lateral angle , the car just died and engine turned off. wouldnt start again intially but after a 1min or so it turned over again and started. about 3 mins later when slowing down to park again the engine cut out again just before parking. This time i got the japanese oboard computer lady announce something that sounded important!

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today whilst idling the car on a slight lateral angle , the car just died and engine turned off. wouldnt start again intially but after a 1min or so it turned over again and started. about 3 mins later when slowing down to park again the engine cut out again just before parking. This time i got the japanese oboard computer lady announce something that sounded important!

Any ideas?

A common fault (was actually factory recall) was on the crank angle sensor.

When it fails the motor will just turn off randomly (not fun at 60kmh) and will generally restart after stopping or if you can get the car back to N to restart.

You should be getting a Check engine light. Try doing the sequence to get the diagnostic codes.

This happened to my M35 and I have heard of it on the V35 also. It also affected Australian delivered Pulsars of the time as they use the same part.

Hope this helps.

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Andy

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Ive booked it into the nissan dealer here in christchurch, nz so hopefully they can get the right diagnositcs out of it. Will let you know what it costs, thankfully i have mechanical insurance!

A common fault (was actually factory recall) was on the crank angle sensor.

When it fails the motor will just turn off randomly (not fun at 60kmh) and will generally restart after stopping or if you can get the car back to N to restart.

You should be getting a Check engine light. Try doing the sequence to get the diagnostic codes.

This happened to my M35 and I have heard of it on the V35 also. It also affected Australian delivered Pulsars of the time as they use the same part.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Andy

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It happened to me again last night, driving and lost power, to the point where it almost died but i pulled over and it keep idling quite happily. however this time after i turned off the ignition and restarted the engine (took a while to turn over) i had an engine check light on, and the VDC off and SLIP lights were on, even though i had not turned VDC off. Pressing the button made no difference, almost as though the onboard computer had disabled VDC for some reason. I managed to get back home ok, then this morning started the car and the VDC had returned to normal, but the engine check light remains.......

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