hello i brought my z one week ago since then its been in the garage more times then i have had it on my drive..... the problem is the 3rd night i had it driving home from work it started to misfire and loose power to which i had to blip the throttle to get it to go anywhere!!

managed to drive it about 2 miles with the problem worsening till i eventially gave up and pulled over switched off engine.

when i tried to restart it it wouldnt start

 

 

i phoned the garage who promptly picked it up took it back to the workshop and tried to start it there no go!!

 

the next morning they went to start it and she fired up straight away and ran lovely to which they kept on testing it start and ran it ect.

 

i picked it up ran lovely, i went for and 1.5 hour drive no probs.

 

next morning she started i went to shop car fine. when i went to another store i parked outside came back and tried to start her she wouldn't start again.(had to be towed by my bros freelander very embarrasing :( )

 

i have tried to read the posts on here so i can try andd give the garage a hint of where to look and u guys know what u are talking about am i right in thinking i have a potential ptu prob. yes it is a series 1 and is there any way of testing it as a jo bloggs

 

 

cheers in advance and sorry for the long write up but this is doing my head in

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sounds like the ptu m8

will give you intermittent problems like that, most obvious place to start

Yep, definatly sounds like PTU failure symptons.

Here's a link to repairing a series1 http://aus300zx.neuralmotion.com.au/tech/pturepair/pturepair.htm

But you're probably better off biting the bullet and getting

a new series 2 ptu. :(

cheers guys the garage is fixing it on warrenty (wow) i have hinted that it could be the ptu but as the guy said his auto electician is "brilliant" hey what do i know huh ive only beeen getting the info off of ACTUAL bloody owners LOL

cheers guys im waiting to say to them i told u so hehe :dance: