I have a 94 Altima that's giving me a lot of problems. Here is the story. All of a sudden without any warning or sign, the car won't start (trying to leave a resturant parking lot). It will crank and crank and crank, lights work and everything, but no start. Mess around with it to no real avail, wait a little while and it finally coaxes in to a start and starts on up (little sluggish though)... Start driving home and notice the rpm gauge dropping off and spiking back up rapidly (this is while driving, which makes for a bumby ride).. The car barely ran as long as I kept it under 2000 rpm or so, but this maximum rpm began to get smaller and smaller until it died at an intersection. Call a tow truck and get the car pushed out of the road. Tow truck arrives and the tow truck driver tries to start my car to get it positioned for the truck. Car starts right up and runs fine. I get it towed to a shop and the shop looks at it and determines it is my ignition coil, dist. cap, button and rotor. So all of that gets replaced totalling $400 parts/labor (I haven't check on all these parts myself, Is that outlandish?)... I pick the car up and drive it home. Take it out that night to eat. Get food, car starts back up fine. Take it for a drive and once I get about 6 miles from home, it dies just like before with the rpm spikes. Realizing that if I let the car sit for about 10 min. it will start back up, I leapfrog it back home, dying once more on the way. It went about 4 miles before dying the first time after leaving the resturant. Take it back to the shop and raise some hell. Talk to them again later, and they say it's the fuel pump / relay (which is what I thought it might have been all along) so that gets replaced for about $200 parts (didn't charge me labor thank God).. Picked it up today and drove to a friends house. Tried to leave there, and the car, once again, did not start. I'm at a loss... Has anyone expirenced this problem, or have any idea what it might be? Remember that the car does turn over fine at all times, electrical system appears fine. It really seemed like the car wasn't getting fuel, but with the new fuel pump I don't know if that's still a possibility.
Delekhan
Delekhan