i bought my max used back in october and it worked fine then a few weeks ago i started having the stuttering/jerking at red lights that many people have been talking about at first i thought maybe just a coicidence but i did read those threads that said eventually the CEL will come on and today it did(havent pulled the codes)... fortunately im still under waranty with the used car place im not 100% sure its the coil packs but if it is will this be an in and out thing or are they gunna need to keep it and send it to the dealer or could it be something else? i dont wanna go there and have them replace a coil pack then send me home to shut me up and then im

 

what year is your Max? If it's a '99 then this it seems like you have bad coils as this is common for '99. You can also find new coils cheaper than what the dealer is gonna charge you

 

yes it's a '99, the used car dealer i bought it from has a 90 day waranty so they fix it for free i took it in today and they told me to bring it back tomorrow and they would pull the codes to see what was wrong and try to fix it and the guy said he doubts its a coil pack which is what i thought it was but who knows i just dont want them to clear the CEL and then in a few weeks have it come back on for the same thing and then im screwed

 

99% chance its a coil pack. I bet the dealer will just replace the one acting up. You'll be seeing the the same problem again in a few days, weeks, months. Thats why with a 99 its always best to replace them all at the same time.

Nissan issued a TSB on this problem. Copy the TSB and have the dealer replace all coil packs.

 

im looking but i dont see it... do you know the link?

 

Update: the dealer has no idea whats wrong with my car and they called a nissan tech and they were supposedly on the phone all day trying to figure this one out... what could it be that has them stumped? (i just want my max back)

 

They're probably just jerking you around so they don't have to pay for the repair.

 

nah they dont want this car back my mom put them through hell when we were looking at this car its true they dont wanna pay for it but they have to i will be PO'ed if they just reset the ECU then give it back and it goes back on

 

go get it look on ebay for coilpacks all6 Mitsu's and fix it urself.......

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW

thse ar ethe hanshen or whateevr but WAY CHEAPER than dealer ones the Mitsubishi will be around the same

 

im not exactly an expert on this and if their gunna fix it for me(for free) then why would i do it? the guy is gunna bring it to a nissan dealer because he has a friend there and see if they can see whats up but that wont be till monday but i do have the car for the weekend