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JohnDuffy

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  • Your Pathfinder Info
    Nissan Pathfinder R50 3.3 V6 registered 10/05/2005
  • Mechanical Skill Level
    Skilled/Experienced Mechanic
  • Your Age
    46+
  • What do you consider yourself?
    Rarely Go Off-Road
  • Model
    LE
  • Year
    2005

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    Antigua
  • Country
    Antigua and Barbuda

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  1. Thanks. I will try that. I will check with the garage to see if they have replaced it. They seem to have replaced just about everything else.
  2. Thanks but we have decided that having bought the car 14 years ago and never run a new car for more than 3 years before selling it that, having been so reliable for so many years that, perhaps, the time has come to scrap it and buy a new car. We would not sell it onto anyone else with the problems we have had over the past year. Excellent service from Nissan for 13 years but a pity about the last year. We nearly bought a Toyota Prado. Maybe next time although my wife (whose car it is) says she would like something smaller. Unfortunately, most of those are based on a front wheel drive platform which I would never countenance.
  3. Thanks. I have checked all the connections, tried shaking the wires to see if I can get it to misfire without success. I came across a suggestion that the screw in the back of the distributor rotor arm can come loose and that it needs to be screwed in with Loctite. It could be that simple. Trying that today (it's still dark here). It tends only to happen when the car is hot. Rain or other conditions don't affect it.
  4. We bought a Nissan Pathfinder R50 3.3 LE new in May 2005 and have had it serviced by the Nissan dealer every 3,000 miles from new. About a year ago it started developing a random misfire and occasionally stalled. Part of the problem was that it would do it occasionally but then not for weeks or months. The Nissan dealer replaced the distributor but it did not solve the problem. Three distributors later and the problem was still not solved. About a month ago, my wife called me as the car would not start and I had to drive out to try to start it which it did. A couple of weeks later it happened again but we were together in out separate cars and I managed to get it started. Then last week it stopped again and I went out but could not start the car and it had to be lifted onto a truck and taken to the Nissan dealer. The coil was replaced. 24 hours later and my wife has rung me and the car again refuses to start. Fortunately, she is only a few hundred yards from the Nissan dealer. We did try a non-Nissan dealer after the second distributor replacement but there was no improvement. We have spend a lot of money but the car is worse rather than better and we do not know what to do next.
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