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Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:05 pm
OK this is getting expensively amusing (if that is possible). After recieveing the rebuilt ECM for the second time, mechanic cautiously went about trying it after checking with his Nissan buddies and it still would not run. I went to the shop with intentions to have it towed to the dealership, but becasue of tips I got from this website, I took my "old" key, one of the originals for the car, did the turn it to ON position, hold for 5 seconds, go back to OFF, and repeated this 3 times. Car started! And re-started several times. Took the newer key which had been left with the car, and using it disabled the car again. Realized that key was bad and was able to reset with the old key again. Problem all along was a bad NATS key? Most probably it was a big cause. Threw the bad key away, next day driving at 65 mpg in traffic with the old key, the engine suddenly stops but I was able to get off the road safely. Had it towed to NISSAN dealership this time, told them I thought it had a lot to do with NATS key programming. They analyzed and agreed and I have new keys newly programmed. However they also are replacing the crankshaft sensor which was error coding bad at both my private garage and now at the dealership so that is being replaced. Hopefully this will solve problems. Probably wasted $500 on rebuilding the ECM. Lesson learned-you were right about the NATS key issue, and if anyone ever has a similar problem, try all keys that you have and use the 3 ON for 5 second trick to reset any security system resets. Expensive lesson learned (I think)