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Old 12-24-2009, 12:06 PM
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Car shaking after tuneup HELP

I have a 2000 maxima gle with 167k miles. The car is in mechanically good shape. No real problems since I bought it 4yrs with 100k miles. I decided to do a tuneup but now the car is shaky when in gear and when its just driving off. It Idles fine I cant seem to understand what it is. I know I have to replace the O2 sensors but that shouldnt have to do with the car shaking. I replaced all parts with oem nissan parts.
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Old 12-24-2009, 12:38 PM
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Exactly what parts were replaced during the tune up?
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Old 12-24-2009, 01:03 PM
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I take it he replaced the plugs, and in the process, prolly didn't seat a coil good enough.

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Old 12-24-2009, 01:12 PM
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I replaced the sparkplugs pcv valve, filters
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Old 12-24-2009, 03:41 PM
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Old 12-24-2009, 04:50 PM
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look for un-plugped vacuum lines, in case u had to take any off. In addition to shaking, ECU could throw a code. g'luck
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Old 12-24-2009, 05:56 PM
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Did you check the gap on all 6 plugs before installing them? Sounds like a misfire you didn't have prior to working on it. First step...Double check your work.
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when in gear and you're idleing whats the rpm at?
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i think you the have an undetected misfire, soon your ecu should throw a code for it, but check the harness clips for each coil and also make sure they coils are on nice and snug.
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ok I will check the coil packs to see if they are all pressed down. Thanks
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Had a similar issue with my 2K and found I messed up a coil pak when I removed it. They get somewhat fragile after 100k miles.
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Check for spark plug gap...coils properly seated and connected properly...vacuum hoses properly connected and no leaks.
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