Cade Chaos Grimoire

danieyella · Dec 31, 2023

Hah, no I'll take someone else's car if needed. If we can get the sensors replaced in time today and drive it around enough to feel confident that fixed everything then great - if not, I'm taking a different car to work in Tampa anyway. It started stuttering and stalling at idle. Not throwing a code yet, but lots of reviewing online suggests camsensors or crankshaft sensor failure beginning (specifically for this vehicle).

Fingers crossed this fixes it.

LadyMac · Dec 31, 2023

danieyella said:
Hah, no I'll take someone else's car if needed. If we can get the sensors replaced in time today and drive it around enough to feel confident that fixed everything then great - if not, I'm taking a different car to work in Tampa anyway. It started stuttering and stalling at idle. Not throwing a code yet, but lots of reviewing online suggests camsensors or crankshaft sensor failure beginning (specifically for this vehicle).

Fingers crossed this fixes it.

Will cross fingers toes and eyes. And have the girls cross their paws too. Car troubles are expensive and stressful.

tbrown · Dec 31, 2023

danieyella said:
Hah, no I'll take someone else's car if needed. If we can get the sensors replaced in time today and drive it around enough to feel confident that fixed everything then great - if not, I'm taking a different car to work in Tampa anyway. It started stuttering and stalling at idle. Not throwing a code yet, but lots of reviewing online suggests camsensors or crankshaft sensor failure beginning (specifically for this vehicle).

Fingers crossed this fixes it.

Could be a plugged catalytic converter or spark plugs also?

danieyella · Dec 31, 2023

tbrown said:
Could be a plugged catalytic converter or spark plugs also?

We're replacing spark plugs today as well.

Stang67 · Dec 31, 2023

Fuel pump. It's probably not but it's a joke. To much to explain.

danieyella · Dec 31, 2023

Stang67 said:
Fuel pump. It's probably not but it's a joke. To much to explain.

Air intake is something that came up a few times, spark plugs or fuel injector issues as well. But most common for this vehicle were cam/crankshaft sensors. Hubs decided to do sparkplugs too because cheap/easy.

tbrown · Dec 31, 2023

danieyella said:
We're replacing spark plugs today as well.

I'm doing mine tomorrow.

fishguy242 · Dec 31, 2023

PCV valve &or sensor ?

danieyella · Dec 31, 2023

fishguy242 said:
PCV valve &or sensor ?

Thought about that as well. In the list in case these don't work. This has been an ordeal so far

Lowell Lemon · Dec 31, 2023

Cam sensor or crank position sensor usually kills the car dead. A coil pack will do just what you are describing however. Just my limited experience talking.

tbrown · Dec 31, 2023

Lowell Lemon said:
Cam sensor or crank position sensor usually kills the car dead. A coil pack will do just what you are describing however. Just my limited experience talking.

I've had a coil pack do this and I've had a Catalytic so this (twice actually). Currently experiencing rough idle so I'm going with spark plugs on my Envoy.

LadyMac · Dec 31, 2023

I know less about cars than I do reef tanks lol.

danieyella · Dec 31, 2023

From what we found, we caught it before it was throwing codes - so pretty early in it if this is genuinely the cause. Apparently not the first Xterra this has happened with. Husbands good friend does mechanic work and it's one of the first things he threw out to look into as well before we started digging.

Lowell Lemon · Dec 31, 2023

tbrown said:
I've had a coil pack do this and I've had a Catalytic so this (twice actually). Currently experiencing rough idle so I'm going with spark plugs on my Envoy.

Don't forget the plug wires. At least check them if you have over 100,000 miles on the car.

tbrown · Dec 31, 2023

Lowell Lemon said:
Don't forget the plug wires. At least check them if you have over 100,000 miles on the car.

Mine has Boots,no wires. I'll be checking them.

danieyella · Dec 31, 2023

I mean, at this point they have basically decided to change and check every little tiny thing that they can get their fingers on. I was just sent to the auto store to get new gaskets for something, and we also got new boots for the spark plugs on mine.

Stang67 · Dec 31, 2023

Be sure to pick up a couple 10mm sockets and wrenches. Just because.

danieyella · Dec 31, 2023

Also interesting. The crank pulled out doesn't look like any crank shown online anywhere - aftermarket or OEM. We bought the replacement from Nissan.

Already broke one wrench and almost lost a 10mm

danieyella · Dec 31, 2023

At this point with his friend here I'm just the errand and holding things person.

danieyella · Dec 31, 2023

Cars back together. So far haven't been able to replicate the problem. Plugged in his more detailed computer thingy to pull codes and code history and got all 4 low tires in history + a shift actuator code in history. Unfortunately it doesn't say how long ago that history is....

Auto place said nothing pulled in history when we stopped there yesterday, but dude also only had it plugged in for like 20 seconds.

Let it run for awhile, drove it around the block a few times. Ran it fast, ran it slow (this was happening at stops). Came home, eating dinner then going to drive it out to gas station again and see what happens.