NHTSA Complaint #702061 — 1992 NISSAN SENTRA

THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM ON MY NISSAN SENTRA NX 1600 COUPE HAS PROBLEMS AND DOES NOT OPERATE PROPERLY AND SAFELY. I HAVE NOTICED THAT MY DASHBOARD LIGHTS WOULD FLICKER FOR VARIOUS AMOUNTS OF TIME, EVEN WHILE DRIVING, AND ON A FEW OCCASSIONS IT HAS STOPPED OPERATING WHILE DRIVING. IT ALWAYS HAPPENS IN COLD WEATHER: FIVE (5) TIMES THE CAR HAS JUST STOPPED WHILE DRIVING IN TRAFFIC AND COULD NOT BE STARTED BY SHUTTING OFF THE CAR AND RESTARTING: VARIOUS TIMES THE CAR DIED WHILE AT TRAFFIC LIGHTS OR STOPPED IN TRAFFIC, AND I WAS ABLE TO RESTART THE CAR AND CONTINUE DRIVING; FIVE (5) TIMES I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO START THE CAR, (JUMPING THE BATTERY USED TO START THE CAR), AND VARIOUS TIMES THE CAR TAKES MULTIPLE TRYS BEFORE THE ENGINE TURNS OVER AND STARTS. I REPLACED THE BATTERY ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF A MECHANIC AND UNTIL LAST NIGHT I THOUGHT THE PROBLEM WAS NOT THAT SERIOUS AND SOMEWHAT RESOLVED. INTERMITTENLY THE DASHBOARD LIGHTS WOULD GO OFF AND THEN A FEW MINUTES LATER COME BACK BUT AFTER LAST NIGHT I REALIZE THAT THERE IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM AND THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THE CAR JUST STOPING IN TRAFFIC WERE VERY SERIOUS. MY CAR WAS RUNNING AND I WAS DRIVING AND THREE TIMES IT JUST STOPPED. MY LIGHTS WERE STILL ON AND AFTER JUMPING THE BATTERY THE CAR STARTED BUT WHILE DRIVING HOME, IT APPEARED THAT AS I SLOWED OR HIT THE BRAKES, THE DASHBOARD LIGHTS WOULD GO OUT BUT THE ENGINE WAS STILL RUNNING AND UPON ACCELERATION, THE DASH WOULD RELIGHT BUT THEN THE CAR JUST STOPPED UPON BRAKING AT A LIGHT AND COULD NOT BE STARTED. IT IS NOW NOT STARTING AT ALL AND I'M WORRIED THAT THERE ARE MAJOR PROBLEMS WITH THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM.. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST NISSAN SENTRA THAT I HAVE HAD THIS TYPE OF PROBLEM WITH, A 1982 NISSAN SENTRA THAT I HAD, PLAGUED ME WITH THIS SORT OF STARTING PROBLEMS AND AFTER REPLACING BATTERIES/ALTERNATORS/STARTERS AND A HOST OF OTHER COMPONENETS, AFTER BEING TOWED MULTIPLE TIMES TO BAY ROYAL NISSAN I PURCHASED THE 1992 SENTRA