justbecause
perpetually lost
"no warning" might be a stretch, but not by much. Back story:
For the last few weeks I have thought the frontier was trying just a little bit harder to get around than normal, but nothing at all sever. and nothing my wife noticed when she drove. It was at the back of my mind "93k miles, its about time for spark plugs, will probably need to clean the MAF, coolant flush, transmission flush, might even do the diff fluid since I installed an extended breather."
this morning the truck shifted oddly enough for my wife to notice. Within a few hours, and less than 25 miles the truck was dead.
Immediately I started to panic about the strawberry milkshake of death, but my frontier is an 11, that issue was supposedly fixed in 10.
I had no CEL, all dash lights appeared normal, the truck would crank and start, but not idle more than a few seconds. Under throttle it would run but it was impossible to drive, it stalled and died (automatic)
I decided to check the radiator, opened it, pressure released, no SMOD. good, checked the coolant level, low, real low. I started thinking to myself, dont they check my coolant when I get an oil change? I let firestone do my oil changes because its cheaper there than I can buy oil and filter for, plus I have lifetime alignment, and tire rotate with balance so I do that ever 5k miles. I know the receipt I get has a list of suggested "services" I cant remember for certain they top off my coolant, but I know they do the windshield fluid and I am certain if they could sell me coolant they would let me know I was low.
I call my buddy, tell him the whole story, he says hang tight, its a fuel issue, I'll be there with my scan tool and we can fix it. I knew I had spark because it would run for a moment, I knew I had air, so I was already thinking fuel and I was grateful to have a second opinion agree.
Buddy got there, reads the codes, P0335, crank shaft position sensor. Truck goes from will not run, to will not start. I have emergency roadside through insurance so I called a tow truck and had them take it to firestone.
I will update once I have the truck back.
TLDR
get a scan tool and check for error codes that may not be causing a check engine light.
For the last few weeks I have thought the frontier was trying just a little bit harder to get around than normal, but nothing at all sever. and nothing my wife noticed when she drove. It was at the back of my mind "93k miles, its about time for spark plugs, will probably need to clean the MAF, coolant flush, transmission flush, might even do the diff fluid since I installed an extended breather."
this morning the truck shifted oddly enough for my wife to notice. Within a few hours, and less than 25 miles the truck was dead.
Immediately I started to panic about the strawberry milkshake of death, but my frontier is an 11, that issue was supposedly fixed in 10.
I had no CEL, all dash lights appeared normal, the truck would crank and start, but not idle more than a few seconds. Under throttle it would run but it was impossible to drive, it stalled and died (automatic)
I decided to check the radiator, opened it, pressure released, no SMOD. good, checked the coolant level, low, real low. I started thinking to myself, dont they check my coolant when I get an oil change? I let firestone do my oil changes because its cheaper there than I can buy oil and filter for, plus I have lifetime alignment, and tire rotate with balance so I do that ever 5k miles. I know the receipt I get has a list of suggested "services" I cant remember for certain they top off my coolant, but I know they do the windshield fluid and I am certain if they could sell me coolant they would let me know I was low.
I call my buddy, tell him the whole story, he says hang tight, its a fuel issue, I'll be there with my scan tool and we can fix it. I knew I had spark because it would run for a moment, I knew I had air, so I was already thinking fuel and I was grateful to have a second opinion agree.
Buddy got there, reads the codes, P0335, crank shaft position sensor. Truck goes from will not run, to will not start. I have emergency roadside through insurance so I called a tow truck and had them take it to firestone.
I will update once I have the truck back.
TLDR
get a scan tool and check for error codes that may not be causing a check engine light.
