While driving at any speed it will suddenly go into "slip " mode. The service engine, vdc off, and slip warning lights come on, the accelerator stops functioning and the engine coasts. This is extremely dangerous in traffic. There is an active campaign that I have included below on the same vehichles the previous year and some from 2004. When I contacted infiniti multiple times about my vehicle with the same problem they refused to include my car. Summary: on certain passenger vehicles, the circuit board for the crank position sensor or cam position sensor may have an improper solder joint due to solder deformation caused by heat stress accelerated by the existence of flux residue during the soldering process. Consequence: this could cause the "service engine soon" warning light to come on, create a no start condition, cause reduced engine power, or cause the engine to stop running without warning during vehicle operation, which could result in a crash. Remedy: dealers will replace the crank position sensors. Camshaft position sensor(s), and in some cases, the variable timing control sensor(s). Vehicles involved in a previous recall campaign, 01v357, are also included in this new campaign. The replacement sensors used in that campaign are also affected. Owner notification began on december 22, 2003. Owners should contact nissan at 1‑800‑647‑7261 or infiniti at 1‑800‑662‑6200. Notes: nissan recall no. R3022/infiniti recall no. R3021. Customers can also contact the federal safety agency's auto safety hotline at 1-888-dash-2-dot (1‑888‑327‑4236).
2004 Infiniti G35 engine complaints
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Tl* the contact owns a 2004 infiniti g35. When the vehicle was started, the check engine light remained illuminated. On several occasions, the vehicle failed to start. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic to be diagnosed. The contact was informed that the crank position sensor failed and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 79,490.
As previously mentioned and depicted copious times on multiple sites, my 2004 g35 (built in 2003 and purchased 11/03 w/ only 43,544 miles) stalls w/o warning. Engine and vdc lights show only after engine stalls. If idle rpms are increased to 1,000, to prevent stalling, the engine idle lopes noticeably. This safety issue has occurred both while stopped (stop lights/signs) and while driving 4 out of the last 4 times driven. Research indicates the fix consists of camshaft position sensor and crankshaft angle sensors. It is patently obvious that regardless of mileage (I.e. 100k+ or in my case 43k miles) the engine will stall, jeopardizing the safety of the driver and passenger(s) resulting from being hit by other vehicles, thereby endangering the occupants of any/all vehicles. This issue should not be the causal factor for individuals being hurt/maimed/killed due to an obvious engineering/manufacturing error by nissan/infiniti, nor should an owner be held responsible for a blatantly obvious manufacturer's defect's, by being required to pay for a system beyond their control and the sole responsibility of the actual manufacturer. Please research the warranty and repair orders, as well as the myriad of the exact same complaints by consumers, reflected on on-line sites and forums. This should not be required to rise to the level of the air bags, exploding gas tanks, etc...resulting in significant injury or death. Respectfully.
Tl* the contact owns a 2004 infinti g35. While driving 55 MPH, the vehicle experienced unintended acceleration without warning. The accelerator pedal became stuck and the engine revved rapidly. The brake pedal was depressed numerous times before the vehicle came to a stop. The engine was turned off and smoke emitted from underneath the hood. There were no flames visible. After restarting, the vehicle resumed normal operation. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 120,000.
Car will shut off while driving vdc and check engine light will come on brakes makes whole car shake when applying the brakes
2004 infiniti g35 lost power when driving. Service engine soon light as well as vdc lights are on. It is hesitant to start after that. Has happened at least one time each during the last three times the car was driven. Major safety issue as the it has happened when turning at a major intersection. Luckily we were able to coast the car to the side of the road. Same issue exist on the 2003 g35 in which there was a recall for, but none exists for the 2004 models. Contacted infinit in which I was told there was no active campaigns for my model, except for the side airbags. Was told that this would be treated as a repair (subject to very high dealer costs) and not a recall. I have found many other post on the internet with the same issue for the same model and the same complaint that it is not addressed by infiniti. How has infiniti verified that this does not exist in other model, especially being so close the 2003 and 2004?!? This is a major safety issue.
While on the freeway, the car died with no warning then took several seconds to restart. When started, the vdc, slip, and engine light where all on. Car was taken to a private mechanic where 2 codes for the camshift position center were given. The car is hard to start and often dies during idle time. When checking on the recall, my VIN was not one listed, however it appears to have the same camshaft sensor identified by infiniti.
Excessive oil burning. When spark plug's were removed for tune up replacement, found one coated with oil. Loss of approximately 1/2 quart of oil per 2 week period. Looked up forums found that many others have had a piston ring problem.
Tl* the contact owns a 2004 infiniti g35. The contact stated that while driving at approximately 50 MPH, the vehicle stalled without warning. The vehicle was coasted to the side of the road. After awaiting fifteen minutes, the vehicle restarted. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and they were unable to locate or duplicate the failure. The contact referenced the federal safety agency campaign number: 03v455000 (engine and engine cooling). The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 105,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2004 infiniti g35. The contact stated that while making a turn at approximately 10 MPH, the vehicle stalled without warning. The vehicle was restarted. The failure recurred on a separate occasion. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 115,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2004 infinti g35. While driving at approximately 15 MPH, the vehicle stalled. The vehicle was able to restart. The vdcf and the service engine warning indicators illuminated. The failure occurred severals times. The vehicle was driven to an independent mechanic for diagnostic testing. The technician stated that the cam shaft needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 196,580.
This just started for me, I was driving along in traffic on the highway when all of sudden my car just loss power and wouldn't accelerate. Not yet stalled but going about 2 MPH, I was able to get it to the side of the highway. It ended up stalling out when I stopped, I couldn't get the vehicle started, it was acting like it didn't have gas, but it did. A light saying vdc (slipped) turned on as well as the service engine soon. I experienced the total loss of power while accelerating. Needless to say I took it to the dealership. They charged me stating that it was all fixed but it did the same thing on saturday 9/12/15. 2004 is not a year impacted by the recall yet I'm having the same issue as the 2003 recall.
Tl* the contact owns a 2004 infiniti g35. While driving approximately 40 MPH, the vehicle stalled and the service engine soon and vdc off warning lights illuminated. The contact mentioned that the vehicle also stalled while stopped at a traffic light. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic where it was diagnosed that the crankshaft sensor needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 20,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2004 infiniti g35. While driving at 35 MPH, the vehicle jerked and stalled. The vehicle was able to restart. In addition, the anti-slip, check engine, and vdc warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 85,000.
Was maneuvering a gentle right hand curve on a 4 lane city street. The car just simply died. Without the engine running the power steering was nullified and the vehicle wanted to continue in a straight line. Approximately 200 ft. Ahead there was an area with a driveway belonging to the water dept. Which I was able to wrestle the vehicle onto, out of traffic. The car would not restart and aaa was called. It was towed to the garage where the mechanic informed me the cam position sensor was faulty and the vehicle was repaired with a new one. About a year later the same thing occurred again as I was turning a corner. Without power steering or brakes I collided with the vehicle waiting at the light. Fortunately, my speed was 10 to 15 MPH and damage to both vehicles was minimal. The cam position sensor was again, the culprit. Last wed. 4/29/15, there was another occurrence then again today 5/3/15, yet another. With the last two, the car was quickly put in neutral and restarted. Research revealed malfunctions with both the cam position sensor and the crankshaft position sensor were cause for a recall with infiniti but it seems everyone that had submitted a thread concerning the problem reported the VIN number on their vehicle was not on the "list" that qualified for any action from the manufacturer. What??? If this life threatening occurrence is happening to literally dozens of infiniti owners, why is there a qualifying list???
Tl*the contact owns a 2004 infiniti g35. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the vdc, the slip and check engine warning lights illuminated as the engine stalled. The failure recurred numerous times. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed that the crankshaft and camshaft position sensors needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 110,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2004 infiniti g35. The contact stated while driving at an unknown speed, the engine stalled and multiple warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was able to restarted, but the failure recurred. The contact was made aware of the federal safety agency campaign number: 03v455000 (engine and engine cooling). The manufacturer was notified of the failure. However, the VIN was not included. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The failure mileage was unknown.
Tl* the contact owns a 2004 infiniti g35. The contact stated that the engine stalled while driving approximately 40 MPH and there were no warning indicators illuminated. The engine was restarted and resumed in operation normally. The failure recurred twice and the vehicle would require several attempts before starting. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic where the cam shaft senor was replaced. One year after the repair was performed the failure recurred. The vehicle was not repaired for the most recent failure. The manufacturer was not notified of the defect. The failure mileage and VIN were unavailable.
I had a low oil light and decided to change the oil and spark plugs. When I removed the spark plug I found oil pooling in the spark plug tube and saw an obvious leak in the valve cover seal. The oil level had reached 1cm above the connector in the boot. This can potentially cause an engine fire while driving. The valve covers contain bad spark plug tube seals. This allows a significant amount of oil to pool in the spark plug tube. When the oil reaches the spark plug boot it can ignite and cause engine fires at high speed.
Car faltered at normal traffic speed, threatened to stop running, shifted awkwardly, drove erratically -- to the point that the vehicle seemed a danger to myself and other drivers -- then was difficult to start once stopped. There was a recall for the same affected part on the same make and model and year, but didn't involve my particular VIN -- this campaign (03v455000) perhaps should be readdressed to include additional vehicles.
Driving at approximately 30 MPH and my engine stalled with all the warning lights on. I had to pull over to the side with no power steering and brakes. Turn the ignition key off and wait a couple of minutes to start the engine. The "service engine soon" light stayed on. The dealer ran diagnostics and detected a bad cam shaft sensor.
Tl* the contact owns a 2004 infiniti g35 coupe. The contact stated that while driving 45 MPH, the vehicle stalled and all of the warning lamps illuminated on the instrument panel. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic and the manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The failure and current mileage was 86,000.
This is regarding the infiniti vq engine and its oil consumption problem. I own a 2004 g35x I paid for and its sits with the biggest oil consumption problem due to nissians problem with the vq engines at the time of the make. Many people have this same problem. Very many people! I dont find this fair at all. I would like to talk to someone regarding this situation and come to a conclusion. Plz
I was driving normally through town at 30 MPH when the engine just stopped and all the dash warning lights came on. Fortunately, I was able to safely coast into a parking lot off the road. I put the car in park and turned car ignition to off position. I turned it on again and the car started normally. I put the car into reverse and the engine immediately stalled. I put the car back into park and turned car ignition to off position. I waited a few more minutes, started the car and was able to drive home.
The vq35de infiniti g35 engine consumes oil quickly. Roughly about 1qt/1000 miles. This car was bought used in 2009 with 35,000 miles. Oil changes with filter and plug have been made habitually every 3,000 miles with mobil 1 synthetic 5w-30 or 10w-30 depending on the season. I see that this is a common problem amongst other vq35de users on both the infiniti g35 and nissan 350z. This problem needs to be addressed by someone, because infiniti does not seem to be doing anything about it either.
I was on the side of a mountain road when suddenly the car started shaking and I lost engine power as well as power steering. All engine lights turned on. I looked this up, and it seems like many people have had this problem so there was recall on the infiniti g35 sedan, but interestingly not on the coupe. The recall is regarding the camshaft positioning sensor. I had my car towed afterwards to my mechanic and he verified the problem was this sensor as well. This car failure was very sudden and extremely dangerous.
The vehicle started hesitating and stalling for no apparent reason. I would be driving for variable amounts of time, from 5 to 20 minutes, when the engine power would just cut out. This was at stoplights, while doing highway speeds, and everything in-between, there does not seem to be any consistent reason. Based on research on various websites, it appears to be a camshaft or crankshaft sensor. Only the sensor, not any mechanical failure. This is a serious and dangerous flaw when a sensor causes your vehicle to stop working while driving in rush hour traffic and other highly dangerous times.
This car has a bad case of automatic acceleration. Since it has been doing this for the past 9 years, I've gotten familiar with the symptons. There are a number of ways the car will simply accelerate on its own and all of them occur when braking: 1) while sitting at a complete stop with the transmission in drive and foot on the brake, the engine will suddenly just rev up to 4 or 5 thousand RPM. 2) same as above but acceleration can be caused by pressing hard on the brake pedal. 3) exiting freeway and braking, the engine will remain at the same RPM and/or speed up. 4) (this is by far the most dangerous) when braking extra hard, the transmission will shift down and the engine goes to full throttle. This one has nearly gotten me a couple of times. The dealer has replaced the throttle, throttle body, etc. Nothing has resolved the problem. It is intermittent and incidents may be months apart. Until recently, the dealer has denied that any other owners have experienced this problem in the USA. Owners have complaining about it since 2003 on various internet sites while the manufacturer denies there is a problem and has allowed it to persist for 10 years. Only recently has the dealer admitted other problems and stated they were afraid of what happened to toyota. Briefly looking at entries on the federal safety agency site, there have been about half a dozen complaints a year. None reported a fatality but then the dead are unlikely to file a complaint. If a tenth of a percent of the owners experiencing this problem filed complaints, that would be 6,000 vehicles per year are being produced with this fatal flaw. In summary, what do you do with a potentially lethal vehicle? Sell it to some unsuspecting person and endanger their life or keep it and wonder when it will kill me? If the latter happens, we'll all know why.
I was driving on 93 south in rush hour traffic when my car completely shut down. I was stranded in the middle of the highway. I immediately threw on my flashers while other cars were whizzing by me and called the state police terrified I would be hit and unable to move. After I hung I up I put the car in park and turned the key to off. After a few more minutes unable to bear sitting there, I turned the key in the ignition and it started. I called back the state troopers and was told to just get the car to a safe spot and call a tow truck, I had aaa. I did and had it towed home. I had it brought by tow truck the next morning to my mechanic who informed me I had a faulty cam sensor. He suggested I bring it to the dealership since these were being recalled up until 2003. I did and the dealership said it was just the ECM that needed to be reprogrammed. I insisted that I was concerned I couldn't go through another incident like friday night. They called my mechanic and called me back saying they would replace the cam sensor for $400. I think they should bear the cost of the cam sensor as this was no fault of my own and could have killed me. *tr ## VIN failed ##
Car was being driven at about 65mph when it lost power and the vdc, slip and check engine soon lights all came on the car regain power but at less amount and was hard to start. Was taken to dealer. And was found to need a cam pos sensor. If this loss of power happen when passing on a 2 lane road I may not be writing this . The 2003 models had a recall I think this model needs one to. The cost was over 350.00.
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