Good deal.. My broke at the Z Nationals on the Track in my 3rd session. Ended up trailer the Car Home and replacing the crank sensor. Took all of 5 mins to fix.

You went from SOL to a minor repair. Lucky you


Nissan doesn't make the most reliable CPS. They suck actually... So it's common

hard to think they used to be a lot worse at least now they are reliable for most people. The old ABS sensors used to be garbage up until 2007

They finally called me today. Supposed to have the car back tomorrow afternoon. They looked all under the car for damage from scraping the ground, found nothing. Then they found some of the wires on the passenger door side had been pulled/cut by the lambo door hinges. So they fixed all of that, and checked all the wiring harness they could under the car for any other wire damage. Didn't find any more so they finally actually looked at the crank sensor itself and determined that it was the problem. But nobody in town had one, so they had to overnight one through Nissan. Total bill (including towing)... $363

Im so ready to have my toy back home. Been driving my brother's eclipse gsx. It's quick and fun to play with the blow off valve, but I want my own back :D

Good deal, $363 isn't the cheapest, but at least it wasn't like my last repair bill of $2500, lol

Well the 363 includes the $85 towing bill too.

If the car would have made it to auto zone before breaking down, and they would have told me that's what the check engine light was.... I would have done it myself. But since the car wouldn't start and move, I didn't want to replace a part and hope that was it.

So, I still don't have my car... They replaced the sensor, and it started right up, however, after it gets warm and you turn it off, it won't start again. You have to unplug the crank sensor and plug it back in, then it will start again... So they are pretty much chasing down a wiring gremlin at this point and they said hopefully by Friday. =(

OK, so just heard from the shop again... They said they have checked everything, and ran every test they can. The car is hit or miss on if it will start or not. If it doesn't, unplug the crank sensor and it starts up then you can plug it right back in and be on your way... They told me normally cars won't even start if that sensor is unplugged. He suggested that the computer possibly has a tune on it that is messed up, or the whole computer is just bad.

Any suggestions?

Pretty crappy turn of events... What's the status on your car now??

should be able to check the maps within the ECU to see if there is a non-native map in there. tow it to a dealer or a tuner that knows Nissan well.

a little more info here

No need to tow it, figured out how to make it start, run, and drive (most of the time in limp mode) every single time I hit the start button... I have brought it to 2 Nissan dealerships, they see the lambo doors, and full exhaust on it, and won't even plug a code reader into the obd port. Nissan dealerships refuse to touch it with mods apparently.

I have plugged the crank sensor back in, and I can get it to start every try by unplugging the passenger side cam sensor. If I unplug only the driver side, won't start. Unplug only the crank sensor, starts 2nd try every time. Unplug the passenger cam sensor only, and it fires up first shot but is a little hesitant. Me and my brother have figured out that you can start the car with all 3 sensors plugged in if we unscrew the passenger side cam sensor, and rotate it clockwise about 15-20 degrees.

So we bring it back to the mechanic that originally changed the crank sensor, since they are the only ones around here that will touch it. Showed them what we found, and they said they don't think its a timing problem, but they keep the car and check it out some more. Called me couple days later and said that the driver side intake cam is 10 degrees off timing compared to pasenger side. So they said they feel like correcting that would solve my problem...

So today I get a call and the voice mail said they have very good news for me... They had originally quoted me $1700 to retime that cam. The 'good news' they had for me was they had found some debris in the oil pickup tube, so they didn't have to retime the motor after all... How a stopped up oil tube means that the motor is no longer out of time is beyond me, but we will see if that magically fixes the problem or not. All I know is if they replace the oil tube and it still don't run right and they try to charge me $1700 on top of the oil tube job they are doing now, I'm gonna go ballistic on them...

Dam!

a little bit of an update, the oil tube job didnt fix it (im not surprised at all) and they are doing the cam job now. but, the "good" news is im getting the oil tube job and cam job done for the price they quoted me for the cam job