Q: Probably it feeds too much gasoline and don't respond to the accelerator pedal. Then the engine stops.

asked by on March 08, 2017

I have bought this Pathfinder in Toronto in 2014. and I have used it in Newfoundland, than I moved back to Europe, and last May I shiped the Nissan to Europe.

When I have driven out from the port it ran perfect, except the battery was dead…

I drove 10min, than I left it running to charge the battery. When I set in the car and wanted to start giving gas and it stoped. When I started again it was like a tractor, than stoped.

After changing many parts, like: - sparking plugs - they cleand the patrol tank - changed ic - changed ignition transformers - gasoline pump - they also checked the control and the computer

the car still doesn’t run.

Mechanic said if he takes the sparks out and let it get dry, it starts. It doesn’t react at all for the gas pedal, but the RPM goes up to 2000 and it stays there as long as it stops again. He thinks too much fuel goes into it.

The problem is that in Europe non of the services has experience with this car. Not even Nissan in Germany or Hungary.

My car has 90000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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