NHTSA Complaint #10519942 — 2003 INFINITI Q45

BOUGHT 2003 Q 45 IN SPRING 2007, STILL UNDER WARRANTY. JUNE 2009 AT 79,000 MILES THE ENGINE WAS REPLACED (UNDER WARRANTY). 6/30/09, 80,081 MILES CAR PROBLEM WITH NO ACCELERATION AND SERVICE ENGINE AND CRUISE CONTROL LIGHT COMING ON. PROBLEM DIDN'T REOCCUR UNTIL JUNE 2012 WHEN ENGINE SUDDENLY CUT OFF WHILE DRIVING. WOULD RESTART IN NEUTRAL BUT IN A WEEK OR SO IT DID IT AGAIN ON THE INTERSTATE AT ABOUT 55. FORTUNATELY WAS IN RIGHT LANE AND COULD GET TO EMERGENCY LANE BEFORE SOMEONE RAN INTO ME. CAR RESTARTED. CONTINUED LIKE THIS UNTIL 6/29/12 WHEN REPAIRED, ONLY IT CONTINUED TO STOP AND THE CRUISE CONTROL/TRACTION LIGHTS WOULD COME ON AND CAR WOULD SUDDENLY STOP AND THEN SURGE FORWARD. 8/11/12 SERVICED FOR SAME PROBLEM. 8/14/12 SAME THING, CAR STOPPED THEN SURGED, THEN THE ENGINE CUT OFF AND LOST STEERING/BRAKES. INFINITI SERVICE AGAIN, THIS TIME INSTALLING NEW ELECTRONIC CONTROL MODULE ($ 1600). THE DEALER KEPT THIS CAR FOR SEVERAL DAYS AND A MECHANIC DROVE IT UNTIL IT HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES. THE MECHANIC OR SOMEONE AT INFINITI DEALER TOLD ME IT WAS A "DEATH TRAP" AND IT IS. A FEW WEEKS LATER GOING AROUND A ROUNDABOUT, THE ENGINE TURNED OFF AND LOST STEERING. PUT IN NEUTRAL AND RESTARTED. COUPLE OF MONTHS LATER, ENGINE TURNED OFF WHILE DRIVING. FRIDAY JUNE 7, 2013 I PULLED ONTO BUSY HIGHWAY, DROVE A MILE AND ENGINE SUDDENLY STOPPED. BEFORE I COULD GET IN NEUTRAL TO RESTART, A DUMP TRUCK NEARLY REAR-ENDED ME. GOT IT RESTARTED, THEN THE CRUISE CONTROL LIGHT CAME ON, CAR STOPPED AGAIN AND THEN SURGED FORWARD. I HAVE CONTACTED INFINITI AND INTERNET SEARCHED. THERE WERE MANY INFINITIS WITH THIS PROBLEM IN THE YEARS 2002-2003, THOUGH ROSWELL INFINITI SAID THERE WERE NO RECALLS FOR THIS PROBLEM ON ANY INFINITI YESTERDAY. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION, AND INFINITI ACTS LIKE THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS PROBLEM. *TR