Tl* the contact owns a 2006 infiniti m45. While traveling approximately 65 MPH, the vdc and check engine warning lights illuminated and the vehicle stalled. The vehicle was turned off and on, which reset the computer. The failure recurred more than twice. The dealer indicated that the vehicle was included in the federal safety agency campaign number: 13v430000 (vehicle speed control). The vehicle received the recall repairs, but the failure recurred. The vehicle was parked at the contacts residence due to the failure. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 86,000.
2006 Infiniti M45 engine complaints
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I was driving my car on interstate at 70mph and engine stalled, all electrical systems shut off, power steering, power brakes, vdc and ABS lights came on along with service engine soon. This was a very scary situation at highway speeds. I pulled through traffic and made it to side of highway. The engine was barely idling and running very rough. The car was turned off. I then attempted to re-start vehicle, and it would turn over, but not ignite. After several minutes and several attempts, the car engine started again. I immediately got off the interstate and took less congested roads home. The next day I drove to a car repair shop for computer diagnostic testing of service engine light. They told me the code reported a pair of malfunctioning "cam position sensors". It is inexcusable for a luxury automotive maker to have catastrophic risk exposure to driver, occupants, and other highway travelers due to a sensor failure! I called local infiniti dealership and they immediately recognized my cars problem, and then said my year is not covered under any voluntary service campaign or recall.
Yesterday my wife was driving with my daughter and two friends when the vehicle stalled and lost all power while driving on a busy road. They were very fortunate to not have caused a serious accident and all were quite frightened by the incident. The vehicle would not restart so they had it towed to a mechanic (I was out of town). Today I went to the shop where the vehicle was towed and spoke to the mechanic. We checked it together and it started up like normal so we went for a ride and the car performed normally as well, although several lights are now lighted on the dash (vdc off, slip, ras & check engine). Searching nicoclub and other forums including this site, it seems this is not an uncommon problem. This could cause serious injuries and even death so owners should be notified of this possibility.
Whilst driving on the road going approximately 45mph the car's engine shut off without warning directly in the middle of a busy intersection narrowly making it across without incident, the car completely was off. The car would not start until 4 tries later. I drove the car towards the dealership and the car shut off again at about 50 MPH causing no power steering, power brakes or warning - I noticed this when the car had no power or response when depressing the accelerator. I was able to coast safely into the emergency lane and retry to start the car again this time 3 tries started it back up. I then proceeded to call a tow truck and had it towed to the dealer, they inspected the car and said that, one of the "crankshaft position sensors", was bad and replaced it. 1 week later the same thing happened again, this time nearly causing an accident when on the highway at 60+ MPH, it was like one minute your going 60mph then nothing, you have no acceleration, power brakes or steering, I had to force cars to evade me as I coasted with no power or engine into the emergency lane. Had it towed again to the dealer and the problem was again another "crankshaft position sensors", I had them replace them all at $1,100 in total. Infiniti/nissan of north america must recall these sensors! They should not be failing and causing these dangerous symptoms, god forbid someone is crossing traffic when the sensors fail and get t-boned and die or get seriously injured.
I was driving the car when it completely lost power.
The engine has failed despite frequent oil changes. The mechanic states there is a "rod knock", which is the connection from the piston to the crankshaft. There is clearly a defect with this engine.
This vehicle has a known defect in the engine rings. The defect began when nissan motor company went to a cheaper ring manufacturer. The defective rings cause excessive oil consumption. Nissan is fighting claims on a case by case basis as not many units were sold. The cost of a remanufactured engine for this vehicle is $15,500.00. However, even the remanufactured engines are defective as they carry the same defective rings.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 infinity m45. The contact was driving 65 MPH when the engine and the traction control warning lights illuminated as the vehicle stalled. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who performed a diagnostic that located the failure at the camshaft sensor. The dealer replaced the camshaft sensor. The VIN was not available. The failure and the current mileage was 71,000.
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