My Day :(

[SunLitSandMax00SE]

I was getting on I90 west from 405 south in that separate HOV lane that goes over the freeway and just as I am about to meet back up with traffic from I90, the car loses acceleration and the gas pedal stops working. I get to about 30 miles an hour coming off the on ramp and the car dies. Lucky I was able to get off to the side of the freeway with the momentum I had. Tried turning the car on multiple times and it would just start up and then die as soon as the revs started idling. Got it towed to the dealership so we will see what happens. I am thinking bad battery or alternator, but all the electronics worked fine while we were in the car waiting for the tow. I am just happy I bought the extended warranty when I bought the car

[szh]

The one time this has happened to me recently, I thought the worst.

Turned out I was out of gas. I had finally encountered the 2003 gas gauge error problem. Taking it in next week to be looked at.

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[mcdoken]

It sounds like a fuel pump failure.

[M45Caliber]

I had a similar problem - it was the crank shaft positioning sensor. So it could be a number of things. good luck.

[palincal]

Crank shaft positioning sensor? Wow! that reminds me of the same problem on my 2001 Sentra that suddenly stopped on a ramp in 2002. The crank shaft sensor was fixed and within a few months Nissan had a recall for that defect. Nissan doesn't seem to learn from its mistakes if a 2003 luxury vehicle is built with a 2001 defect identified in 2002.

[SunLitSandMax00SE]

So here is the update

They say the PDU is dead (Power Distribution Unit), First they say it's not covered by my warranty...$1100...WTF!!! So I call them back and I am no no no no!! I didn't spend all this money for a warranty. I call the warranty company and they said the Infiniti called them and said they "think" it's the PDU and so they won't cover it unless they are for sure it is....but Infiniti told me that it was burnt out because they were already ready for to order another one....I am like well WTF is going on. I talk to Infiniti and I told them what the warranty company said to me which was yes it's covered as long as it IS the problem. I call Infiniti and tell them what the warranty company and they are frustrated because that's not was told to them. Inifiniti then tells me they will reword what they said to the warranty company and get it covered. They said they would call me tomorrow so we'll see but all I know is there is no way I am shelling at $1100 for this.....ftmfl

[cobblecanyon]

I hope it's not going to cost you a dime more than your deductible.

I have the extended 100K miles warranty that the dealer threw in to get me to buy the car last yr., ....yup, sales was slooooooooooooow.

Hopefully I would never encounter this problem but the warranty should cover bumper to bumper.

[jbillion]

You're saying warranty company, so I assume you don't have the Infiniti Warranty. In my experience, the manufacturers extended warranty greatly exceed the coverage of any after market warranty, and you don't have to deal with the hassles you are experiencing.

[SunLitSandMax00SE]

Does anyone know how many distributors there are on this generation of M's?

[SunLitSandMax00SE]

and or does anyone know where the Power Distribution Unit is located?

[ken in az]

Does anyone know how many distributors there are on this generation of M's?

Distributors as in spark distributor? We don't have one of those. We have a crank sensor and 2 camshaft sensors. I beleive that the crank sensor is used for the spark and the 2 cam sensors are used to control the VVT intake camshafts.

There could be another crank sensor but I haven't scoured the FSM too deep to find it. Check the FSM sticky link at the top of the M page and dive in and have fun. I think you'll need to look in the EC section if I'm not mistaken but I'm on my super slow work laptop so it takes forever to pull up those large files.