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Re: Service Engine Soon Light [pooch505] by langjie
Sep 19, 2008 (12:09 pm)
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Replying to: pooch505 (Sep 18, 2008 2:44 am)

#1 thing to do, make sure your gas cap is on tightly
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Re: Service Engine Soon Light [langjie] by pooch505
Sep 19, 2008 (2:40 pm)
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Replying to: langjie (Sep 19, 2008 12:09 pm)

Thanks,
The 1st thing I did was to check my gas cap before I put up the post. Anyway I Googled "Service Engine Soon" light for NAH and found nothing. I did find a number of posts about disconneting the battery and reconnecting it for other cars. Well I decided to give it a try. My "Service Engine Soon" light is now off. It hasn't come back on today. I've used my car about 5 different times today. It's still off. Only thing that happened was the horn started beeping when I reconnected the battery and VDC light stayed on for a few miles. I think it just had a bad emissions burp. Anyway I disconnected the negative wire on the battery in the trunk on the right side inside that little door on the right about 1 foot in. Anyway this has worked for me and if it does come back on it's going into the dealer.
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Re: Service Engine Soon Light [pooch505] by langjie
Sep 22, 2008 (5:35 am)
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Replying to: pooch505 (Sep 19, 2008 2:40 pm)

if it does happen again....check the service engine soon code yourself....
 
http://www.supernissans.net/forums/2007-4th-gen-nissan-altima-faq/36-ses-procedu- re-2007-altimas.html
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Re: Service Engine Soon Light [langjie] by pooch505
Sep 22, 2008 (11:48 am)
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Replying to: langjie (Sep 22, 2008 5:35 am)

Thanks much langjie,
 
Was very interesting to read. I'll try that if it comes on again.
 
Have a great day.
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Re: Service Engine Soon Light [pooch505] by zerr
Dec 12, 2008 (12:11 pm)
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Replying to: pooch505 (Sep 18, 2008 2:44 am)

Have the dealer check for code. I have the same problem at 32k miles. It turns out that the engine was misfiring on cylinder #2 and the spark plug was covering with black soot. They have to order a nismo spark plug to replace the old one. Good luck. Luck is what we all going to need on this vehical.
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Re: Newby with a question [chrisr007] by zerr
Dec 12, 2008 (12:26 pm)
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Replying to: chrisr007 (Feb 10, 2008 7:33 pm)

1. Yes, the engine will shut off smoothly most of the time when come to a stop.
2. The car runs solely on battery up to 39-41 mph given that you crawl the car up to that speed with plenty of juice in the batter pack. The engine kicks in when you accelerate or when you are low on the battery pack.
3. The transition between gas and electric engine can be a bit rough once in a while, otherwise, it's pretty smooth.
 
If you are not a die hard Nissan Fan, then go with the Camry hybrid, it's worth the extra $.
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Re: Newby with a question [zerr] by langjie
Dec 15, 2008 (8:40 am)
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Replying to: zerr (Dec 12, 2008 12:26 pm)

"If you are not a die hard Nissan Fan, then go with the Camry hybrid, it's worth the extra $."
 
I don't think I'd go that far. I think the NAH is great, though you have random issues sometimes. I think you should try out both before making a decision. Sometimes I think it might have been better to get a prius for the fuel efficiency, but I never get those thoughts with the TCH. Just thinking of the horrible unsupportive seats make me cringe.
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Re: Newby with a question [langjie] by zerr
Jan 06, 2009 (11:07 pm)
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Replying to: langjie (Dec 15, 2008 8:40 am)

I have the same problem again with the misfiring 2 weeks ago. Took it back to the same dealer and left the car over night with the dealer to check the check engine light. The dealer found nothing wrong with the car. Took it back home, and the car seems to run ok. Today, the engine start to misfiring again!!! I just hope that the engine doesn't jump out of the bay while driving on a freeway. I am going to take it to another dealer to have it check again. I am going to ask Nissan Usa to extend the warrantee for this juvenile. This is the first bad nissan car that I've owned. I have an 84 datsun/nissan extended cap pickup since 86 and yes it still run without any problem. I had a maxima for 11 years, no problem there either. Trade the max for a Infinity q45, no problem with it either. Had the q45 for 5 years, and then trade it for the NAH. Oh did I mention that the passenger side air bag doen't function properly, and when I took the car in, the dealer couldn't find anything wrong with it. Same thing with the premature rear disc warping. Dealer pretended that it was normal for the disc to warp after 10k miles because it has something to do with the capturing of loss energy. What a Joke? My 84 nissan pick up has no warping disc for the past 22 years. I hope Nissan will step up to the plate and take care these problems soon. This could be my last Nissan car. The last Ford car I had was 22 years ago.
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Why is my nah engine keeps misfiring? by zerr
Jan 08, 2009 (9:21 pm)
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My engine misfiring again today while driving on a freeway. This car is not safe to drive on the freeway when it misfiring! The whole car vibrate like crazy. The engine misfiring almost installed the engine when my wife make a left turn on a on coming traffic. The service engine light blink for atleast 10 second when the engine misfiring. Left the car with the dealer tonight. Hope they find out what's wrong with it. I am calling ntsa tomorrow.
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Re: Why is my nah engine keeps misfiring? [zerr] by langjie
Jan 09, 2009 (6:09 am)
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Replying to: zerr (Jan 08, 2009 9:21 pm)

if they don't figure it out, call nissan corporate

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