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So today i parked my car in the usual spot at work and did not move it for 9ish hours. I got in my car this afternoon to move it around the back of my work (as i'm storing it in the workshop because we're getting a f*ck load of rain/flood) and all of a sudden my revs drop from 2k to 0 and the car stalls. I naturally thought "What the f*ck?" then i started the car again, drive 10 metres then it cuts again. So now i'm starting to get worried.. started the car again and drove another 15m into the workshop then turned it off.

When i first lost revs i also got a few lights come up from what i remember it was battery and a few others. Popped the bonnet and had a look around checked the belts to see if they were very loose but they were tight and everything else seemed ok. I am really not sure what's happened, we have got a hell of a lot of rain up here in the last 48 hours i'm just wondering if my car has just died because it's been driven 20m in the last 2 days and hasn't warmed up at all since it's been left in the cold the whole time.

Any feedback would be good, hopefully i get in it tomorrow and it starts fine and i have no problems.

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Deep Dish V35 Experienced

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id guess its fuel or air related - something to do with the fuel pump or your intake.

just some ideas:

that stalling sounds very similar to when the fuel pump has no power, it doesnt pressurise the injection manifold, the manifold has enough fuel in there to start and run for a while then eventually dies. but then you shouldnt be able to restart the car afterwards.... which would indicate a possible faulty pump. (or no fuel in the tank)

Or if your MAF sensor plug was disconnected, similar result...

or an inlet leak of some kind could do that.

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i'd check the CAI hasnt popped off somewhere between the MAF and the plenum, or maybe a hose connected to the plenum (EGR or crankcase breather)

worst comes to worst, plugging a scantool up should give you a better idea

bigdr33gtst Enthusiast

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it will be a crank angle sensor or one of the cam shaft sensors. get it to a diag tool and it will give you the code, then look it up on google it will tell you what sensor it is. happened to me and it was my camshaft left hand side. about a $300 fix all up

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I had a similar issue to this a while back, went to take off from the lights a few times then BAM! Felt like the engine died, hazards went on... fail. I checked a few things similar to what was suggested, disconnected the battery, reconnected, seemed to work fine after that :S Not sure if it was 100% the same however.

sonicii Veteran

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I would look at the cam/crank sensor too.. a failed fuel pump or air leak will generally cause it to stumble and run horrible for a bit before it stalls.. Check the codes.. it should have stored something if it is a failed Crank/Cam sensor.

Seano350GT Veteran

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Ok so i checked the MAF and intake this morning when i got to work and it all seems tight, started it up and let it get warm. Drove it around same as i did yesterday and had no problems at all. So i guess it's all sweet, if i have the problem again i'll get a scan tool on it.

Thanks for the advice

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I think the engine light came on, to be honest i just thought to myself ahhh shit then tried starting the car again i didn't take note of exactly which lights came on. Yes Tony i used the clutch appropriately haha, thanks mate it's fine up here now haven't had rain since yesterday afternoon it's nice and sunny now with a bit of cloud so i reckon it's gone further south. My boss was blocked in this morning had trees down over his driveway and smashed windows from the wind.. got pretty crazy out where he is.

mellowman Enthusiast

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I have a set of Camshaft sensors, ordered from the US last may but took an age to get here and needed the car working to hit the snow fields so took it to Nissan Artarmon and had them replace the fault sensor at nissan pricing.

think they cost around $70 each ill have to double check, but cheaper than from Nissan direct

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James

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Hey James, for future reference which shop did you buy the cam sensors from? Did a bit of a search on the net and couldn't seem to find anywhere. By the way, i drove the car home after work and had no problems at all. Really is a mystery as to what happened, i still think somehow it's because of the cold over the last 3 days.

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