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My missus drove home today telling me that the stag had an issue with turning on when she was coming home from the shops and there is an engine light.

So I went out and got the fault code, which made no sense, it had 10 slow flashes, then 340, then back to 10 slow flashes, weird....as normally it is 4 lots of quick flashes with a decent pause between the sets.

http://youtu.be/HuO487GeEbQ - Here is a video of the fault code and the starting issues. It just turns over and over until it starts, when it starts it runs fine. Feel no loss in power. However just then i took it for a bit of a burn into the city and it cut out once while slowing down for traffic lights. Started straight back up with no issue.

Any thoughts?

I am thinking either bad fuel causing a sensor to report errors or maybe AFM? Only reason why I mention fuel is because I recently put United Premium 98 (with 10% ethanol) as I was trying it out because BP Ultimate has hit 203.9 p/ltr up here. United up here have a rep of sometimes having "watered" down fuel.

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Sounds like the cam sensors, I've not had the problem but few other guys here have and should be able to help you out, normally when it takes ages to start its the cam sensors or maybe crank sensor.

Could also be AFM or even fuel pump dying. You'd need a proper scan to see what the fault says

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I am soo hoping it is nothing major. In 1 week we have our wedding an the stag is required.

Might clean the AFM and connectors to the cam sensors. Might ask around and see if anyone up here has a consult to suit that I can borrow.

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Well I cleaned the connector on passenger side (bank 1 yeah?)

And since then I have started about 6-8 times with no issue.

*fingers crossed*

Might see is Nissan in Perth (family flying up for wedding) have any and get them as spares. The Nissan dealer up here is fckn useless at the best of times.

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So after starting and running like a dream all of yesterday. The damn thing started playing up again.

It seems to fault only after the engine is at operating temps.

Hopefully going to get it on a scanner today to confirm.

Got a price on both cam sensors and crank sensor (figured handy to have on hand) - $580 + $25 if i want the parts this week.

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Dont pay that FFS.

Get them from the US, it'll be a heap cheaper. Check out the Z parts onlines sites, http://www.conceptzperformance.com/

There are others, so I don't know if thats the cheapest.

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I am not planning to...unless I have no other option.

Just rang 2 dealers in Perth and one wanted $625 for all 3 (talk about butt hurt), the other $550.

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Dont pay that FFS.

+1

I think these are the current part number you're after if you want to search around (correct me if I'm wrong guys).

Drivers side Cam : 23731-6J90B

Passenger side Cam: 23731-AL61A

Crank Sensor: 23731-AL60C

~$80 (US) each plus shipping etc from conceptz and similar prince from amayama. Not sure how easy they are to DIY.

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I was only going to replace faulty sensor but keep spares (always handy).

I am going to get the intermittently faulty sensor from Nissan dealer, and order the rest from CZP so I have em on hand.

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