NHTSA Complaint #10229648 — 2003 NISSAN SENTRA

I BOUGHT A USED 2003 NISSAN SENTRA FOR JUST A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR AGO FROM A USED CAR DEALER. LESS THAN A MONTH LATER I FOUND SOME LISTED RECALLS ON THE WEB FOR THE ON BOARD CONTROL UNIT WHICH WAS CAUSING THE COMPUTER TO MISS READ THE CRANK CASE POSITIONING SENSOR, AND OXYGEN SENSORS, & CAUSING CARS TO STOP RUNNING FOR ANYWHERE FROM SPLIT SECOND TO SEVERAL SECONDS. THIS COULD CAUSE AN ACCIDENT FOR THIS ON BOARD COMPUTER WAS MAKING ERROR CODES SHOW UP WHEN DOING SMOG TEST AND THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THESE SENSORS. I WENT INTO MY LOCAL NISSAN DEALER TO HAVE THESE RECALL REPAIRS DONE, I WAS TOLD THAT ONLY ONE OF THE FOUR REPAIRS WOULD BE DONE TO MY VEHICLE BECAUSE MY 2003 SENTRA WAS MADE IN DEC. AND THE RECALL FOR THE OTHER WERE FOR UP TO NOV OF 2003. MY SENTRA HAS BEEN HAVING THE SAME EXACT PROBLEMS THAT THE RECALL REPAIRS WERE SUPPOSE TO FIX, ONLY THEY WOULDN'T FIX MINE. SINCE ABOUT A MONTH AFTER THAT MY CHECK ENGINE LIGHT HAS BEEN ON AND ABOUT A HALF A DOZEN TIMES A WEEK MY CAR WILL JUST STOP RUNNING FOR ABOUT A SECOND AND START UP AGAIN. ALSO SINCE THEN I HAVE HAD BOTH THE CRANK CASE SENSOR AND THE OXYGEN SENSOR REPLACED AND NOT ONLY WILL THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT NOT GO OUT, BUT NOW EVEN AFTER I HAVE REPLACED BOTH OF THESE SENSORS BECAUSE THEY WERE SHOWING UP AS DEFECTIVE WHEN I HAD THE SMOG CHECKED, THIS DEFECTIVE ON BOARD COMPUTER STILL SHOWS THE EXACT SAME DEFECT CODES EVEN AFTER PUTTING NEW PARTS IN. THIS HAS NOW COST ME OVER $150 FOR PARTS I DIDN'T NEED AND EVEN WORSE, THE CAR WON'T PASS SMOG EVEN THOUGH THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE PARTS I HAD TO REPLACE. SO NOW BECAUSE NISSAN WOULDN'T REPLACE WHAT THEY KNEW WAS A DEFECTIVE PART, THE ON BOARD COMPUTER OR WHAT THE SERVICE MANUAL CALLS IT THEN (ECM) CONTROLLER, I HAVE 3 DAYS (NEVADA ONLY GIVES YOU 10 DAYS EXTENSION IF YOUR CAR DOESN'T PASS SMOG TO FIX IT). ECM CONTROLLER WILL HAVE TO BE REPLACE II DON'T HAVE $700 TO $1000 DOLLARS TO PAY FOR ONE. *TR