G'day guys,
I am hoping to find some info from the many knowledgeable people on this forum. I have a 2008 ST-X V6 with 90 thou K's
Over the last couple of weeks every know and then my engine seems to start running in 5 cylinders. It come and goes for a few minutes and then the engine light flashes. Once I turn it off and on again a few times it goes back to normal.
I have been to the local nissan dealer and they believe it is a problem with one of the coil packs (they do seems to be scratching their heads a bit and then just guessing at the cause though). The diagnosis machine is just reading a misfire with no further details.
The problem is they have told me there is no way to isolate which pack is causing the problem and tell me there is no possible way to test a coil pack, so they want to just replace all 6 at a cost of..... what for it..... $2,000!!!!!!!!!!
I have tried pulling the plug of each pack in an attempt to isolate which one may be causing the problem. Of course it is not either of the three that you can actually get to easy, and my hands do not bend enough to reach the other three without pulling covers of etc.....
It is a real pain, as it only happens every now and then so I can really start pulling things apart to get to the other three packs until the problem actually happens where I can try and isolate it....
Any advice anyone could possibly give would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to spend the 2 grand to replace all 6 packs......
cheers murf
I am hoping to find some info from the many knowledgeable people on this forum. I have a 2008 ST-X V6 with 90 thou K's
Over the last couple of weeks every know and then my engine seems to start running in 5 cylinders. It come and goes for a few minutes and then the engine light flashes. Once I turn it off and on again a few times it goes back to normal.
I have been to the local nissan dealer and they believe it is a problem with one of the coil packs (they do seems to be scratching their heads a bit and then just guessing at the cause though). The diagnosis machine is just reading a misfire with no further details.
The problem is they have told me there is no way to isolate which pack is causing the problem and tell me there is no possible way to test a coil pack, so they want to just replace all 6 at a cost of..... what for it..... $2,000!!!!!!!!!!
I have tried pulling the plug of each pack in an attempt to isolate which one may be causing the problem. Of course it is not either of the three that you can actually get to easy, and my hands do not bend enough to reach the other three without pulling covers of etc.....
It is a real pain, as it only happens every now and then so I can really start pulling things apart to get to the other three packs until the problem actually happens where I can try and isolate it....
Any advice anyone could possibly give would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to spend the 2 grand to replace all 6 packs......
cheers murf