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Hya,

Need some advice plz.....

I was driving on the freeway (stop start traffic)

and my car died.

Once it cooled down a little it was okay

and I managed to get going again.

It's happened a couple of times now when it's a warm

day and the car heats up, any ideas what this could be??

Is it a sensor that's cutting out once the car gets too hot?

Bloody bastard!!

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the stock ecu will back out timing when water temp goes up but it certainly wouldnt kill the engine like you described, just a touch sluggish

when you see the issue what does the water temp guage look like on the dash and are there any red warning lights on - these would be dead obvious but just in case

any do you have nissan consult? if you could get that or borrow it you can run a diag on all the stock sensors and even see what the ECU is picking up water temp

this would tell you the sensor is toast (it could be) or out of range etc

The water temp stays midway, maybe I should get a

water temp gauge just in case......

What's a Nissan consult? :) lol

This is the Pulsar, everythings pretty much stock

but the turbo upgrade bits.....

But yeah, the car died - when I tried to restart it would

rev to 1k then just die out, even if I tried to accelerate.

I let it sit for 5 mins then she was fine again till I got home.

Thanx for the help ;)

Yea, the technical reason is that a failing fuel pump overheats when not in motion. When you rev your car, the petrol actually cools the pump. When it heats up it dies.

Thats one possibility of course, if you havent changed it for 100kkms, or have no idea when it was last changed, you may aswell do it. Get the fuel filter done while you're at it.

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