2006 M45 stalls on freeway then starts back up

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triipn
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Hoping for a little help maybe this happen to others. Anyway I took a 100 mile trip the other day and was on a back road doing about 40 mph and it just died. Pulled over put it in park and it fired right up. Had about 10 miles to make it to my destination and I made it with no issues. Car set for about 4 hours and I figured I give it a shot and try to make it home. About a 1/3 of the way home doing 80 on the freeway the motor just dies but dash lights stayed on,. So I start to pull over coasting with it still in Drive and after about 5 to 10 seconds after it died it just started back up so I just kept going. The rest of the way home this happened at least 6 more times stalling and after a few seconds just starting back up on its own while I was coasting. Couldn't believe I made it home but I did. Check Engine light never came on. Could a bad Crankshaft sensor make it act like this?


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triipn wrote:
Wed Apr 22, 2026 9:13 pm
Could a bad Crankshaft sensor make it act like this?
Yes. Fuel pump would also be a suspect.

triipn
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I thought about that too. I'm going to have to do some troubleshooting

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Hall sensors like crank and cam are hard to diagnose because they usually go in and out before complete failure, but Hitachi's ECM software isn't very good at catching that. You really only get codes if the sensor flatlines for a significant period, but not if it misreads a few teeth or misses a few rotations and then comes back. That results in a "mystery stall" with no codes. Fuel is easier to sort out if you can get it to stall and not restart. Spray something combustible down the barrel with the airbox cover popped, if she bangs right over and then stalls again then it's fuel starvation for sure.

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I will suspect the fuel pump, crank and cam sensors, and even the vvti sensors, have failed me several times.
Have you scanned the system for fault codes yet? That would point you to the suspect areas; but sometimes, they Nissan's ECU are not that sensitive to keep such codes, in such a way that you can retrieve them.


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