Yesterday, the car ran fine, just as it has everyday sense I bought it new. Today, I started the car, put it in reverse, and it dies. I start it again, and push the gas, and anything above 1.4K it starts bogging, like its cutting the fuel! I can’t believe I cant use my new car this weekend, and my other car is the shop for a tranny rebuild (lots of miles). Ughh. WTF. Only 4.5K on the car. Was services at 3k.

Any ideas?

 

Well, you are still under warranty. Time to take it to the dealer and experience some of that Infiniti customer satisfaction.

 

Thanks Eric L, but that didn't help any. They are not open till Monday. As far as Satification, the service is really good. They just called a dealer in hawaii and Cali, to ask some questions for me, because in texas the Service Dept. is already closed. Its the products I'm starting to wonder about.

 

anyone know if the POP intake would cause such a problem. Not sure, it has worked fine for a few weeks that its been on the car?

 

Once you mod a car you can't always blame the produts. You've got a cone or cai on you car and the MAF may have been messed up or there is an air leak. Since its the weekend.......take out the cone, put back in the old air box with a new filter. Try it then. My guess is the cone is messing you up......not the cars fault.

 

Why would the cone do this after I have used it for weeks without any problems?

 

I'm putting the stock air box back in now, and will reset the ECU by having the battery off for a while. IF this works,I'm not moding it any further, and will get the is300M, 330Ci, or a slightly used GS400 before new years. If it doesn't work, I'll have to wait till Monday, and get it towed to Infiniti. I will also not be holding on to it in that case.

I've modified cars, mostly American Muscle, and have not had these type of issues. I didn't have these issue with my 96 and thought Nissan would be a great buy once again. All I did to this car is an Intake, and the Y-pipe, everything else was just for handling.

 

I have a question
Your aftermarket Y-pike didn't void the warranty? I'm just interested, remember reading somewhere that is what happens when you get into some performance mods on cars, they void the warranty...

I don't have an idea on why your car would die, was it really really cold when you started it and put it in reverse without letting it warm up? I've had this happen on my car many times generally when it is really cold... but it runs fine after.. have the dealer take a look... good luck

 

Well I took the stupid intake off, and put the stock box back on. Still doing it!! All I have now is the Y-pipe.

I'm not going to mess with the pipe before I take it to the deal Monday. They would have to prove my modification caused the problem.

Also it was not cold, more like HOT 99F. However I did let the car idle and tried all else. It simply bogs down under 1000RPM when I step on the gas!

 

It really sounds like your MAF sensor is not working properly. My car had the same exact symptom as yours. The car ran fine for a while then it got weird and then it just bogged down. If you have a volt meter handy you can diagnose it your self. Another possibilty{unlikely} is you have a huge vacume line leak, make a visual inspection of all your vacume lines and make sure everything is connected. A small air leak will make your car act funny but not undrivable. BTW try disconecting your MAF sensor harnesss and blow on it and then try reconnecting it. Good Luck & Join the club

 

i had a similar problem.. anything under about 2k rpms it would drop low and stall if i didnt give it gas... i figured out the problem.. i put a stillen intake in and when i was at my mechanic getting something fixed, he took the scoup out and i had him leave it out and put a cap on the open hole.. when i looked under my hood the cap was gone... i realized that when i was at low rpm's, the engine wasnt sucking in enough air because the open hole was letting it out... maybe its similar to that?

 

What Cap, I didn't understand your post Joe? And Emax, now I know you felt, though I think I might just leave Nissan for a while altogether. If your having all those problems with your I30, why go and get another Maxima, and hope its made better?

Thats what I did, now I'm not happy at all. Wouldn't be so bad if it happen through the week, I know inifiniti would give me a car and take care or it, but noooo, had to stick it to me on the weekend! Uggghh, I could yell. If it was a used car, I could handle this better.

I have looked at every single hose and connector under the hood, everything is OK. I got the stock air box back on also. From the track, the POP did not gain much at all over the stock air box anyhow. What would you get for under 35K?

 

When you modify the car you have to be prepared for some of the 'surprise' problems. If the car was completely stock, I might be a bit more upset.

 

no offense to emax but you shouldnt compare yours to his car becase he did a lot more modding and he said he has hit his rev limited many times... also he had the incident when he messed up the clutch, if you look at most of the people on the org, we dont have too many problems with our cars.. well, not many things that arent our fault lol... the cap i was talking about... i dont know the name but the scoup goes under the arm for the intake, and around to the air box... then from the scoup theres a tube that goes from the arm to a little box thats attached to the airbox that does nothing... maybe some of your tubes might be loose that have to do with the intake? because it sounds like a similar concept to what happened to mine, your engine might not be taking in enough air and causing it to stall... it scared the hell out of me because the day before i had my alternator and battery changed lol.. if you dont know which hose im talking about ill take some digital pics of it... hope everything works out

 

Federal Law prohibits vendors from voiding a warranty because of aftermarket parts, unless they can prove in writing that a specific mod caused the problem

 

NickStam, I don't have any mods! Only a Y-pipe, everything else is just for handling. Ughhh. SOrry. Anyhow, I even took the POP intake off, and everything under the hood is back in perfect STOCK condition except for the FSTB.


I think its a fuel pump, filter and or infector issue. Still doesn't work today. Entire weekend wasted We'll see on monday, calling first thing to have them tow it to Infiniti.

 

make sure they have it flatbedded rather than towed lol

 

While the Y-pipe doesn't ruin the engine, the dealer can make any excuse they want. You can quote rules, laws, regulations, etc...but they will BS you every single time to avoid fixing something for free. By the time you get the whole matter settled, you will be so sick you will just pay whatever it takes to get it fixed.

 

So Eric, you think I should remove the Y-pipe before taking it in also? The server manager is really cool (reason they were number 1 in the nation last year) and he mods his cars?

I located a silver and a black GS400 for about 32K They are 1998's with very low miles. Wonder if I should do it

 

don't do it, see what's wrong with it and keep the car, or wait and get a 2002 6-spd MAXIMA

 

You did the right thing by removing the aftermarket intake before bringing it in for service. When I brought my car in for a problem (under warranty), they called me and said they weren't going to touch the car (because of the intake) without me consenting to a $70 diagnostic fee. I told them to leave the car alone and I would make other arrangements to get it fixed. When I got there, they had pulled the code and reset the ECU, stating the problem was "probably" a faulty TPS. After speaking to another local dealer they told me to bring it in and the discovered the voltage was running high on the TPS, made the adjustment and the car has been fine since. AND they didn't charge me!
So it really depends on the dealer.
You have a great car, just hang in there with it.
Good luck and keep us posted on the resolution.

 

Ok, well the car is towed off to infiniti this morning. We'll see what’s up in a few hours. IF they can’t fix it today, they will pick me up and give me a car. . Also, why should I not get the GS400, and keep the I30T over it? Also, not sure I would want a third "Maxima"

All the news on the 02 sounds tempting would be more so if it was RWD. I also don't know if I want to go from Infiniti to the Nissan name plate. The interior is usually cheaper, and once you get spoiled, you get spoiled.

 

Ok the car is all fixed, part was in stock, cost: $0 Frustration for messing up a weekend: High Infiniti Services: Proves great once again.

It was the MAF sensor, BAD. Their is a Nissan Bulletin on these things. The service manager asked me when I put the K&N on (Drop in). They didn't give me a hard time, and didn't say anything about the Y-pipe. The service manager and 3 sales guys were all admiring my handling mods infact and asking about the K@N

He said that aftermarket intakes were also known/documented by nissan to increase this problem. Guess it was a good thing I did take that POP intake off, which I think I'll just sell. So for those of you with MAF/CAI, and have weird fuel issues, take it off if still in warranty, as I found the Nassan dealers will come up with anything just to charge you. I'm really thinking twice about moding any further. What is that OC intake thing called, homemade?

The car was in by lunchtime (They came and picked it up) and done by 5PM. It was also super dirty when they got it, as I was about to wash it, and it didn't run. They washed/detailed it, and even Shampoed the carpet which got filthy from some dirty passengers all for free, ready for pick up, right in front of the show room, people looking to buy

 

A mod can be engine, suspenion, electronic, exterior, interior etc...

 

Well its nice to see Infiniti service is top notch. If anything, you sound 180 degrees from the day earlier. It is totally frustrating when your car is in downtime. Just remember that you *could* have caused this prob...not that you did.....but could have. I guess it was a good idea that I MADE you take out that cone.

Enjoy the car......still keeping it?

Mike S.

 

That's great! You have an awesome Infiniti dealer.

About the GS...I would take one over a 2002 Maxima anyday. The 2002 Maxima will drive just like your I30, but well drive a GS and you will find a huge difference. Plus, with a Toyota (Lexus), you will never be visiting the dealer again. They are bulletproof reliable. But with dealers like your Infiniti dealer, I would not mind taking it to the dealer. I can just imagine the BS a Nissan dealer would raise regarding K&N drop-ins and the Y-pipe.

 

Hey NickStam, I know what a mod is, duh. I was trying to say I don't have any engine/drive train mods, so they cant say my car doesn't run because I have a RSB, or H&R Springs, or an interior mod, know what I mean.


They loved the springs BTW.


Anyhow, I have nothing but bad luck, today, on the dreiver side rear quarter, I got a deep 8 inch scratch that infiniti will be looks at thursday. I'm moving soon, and don't think this will be a problem in the future though.