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Originally Posted by 16paws
Hi All,
I bought a 96 Altima a week ago for a second car. Its an automatic with 82K miles. It has had 3 episodes of while driving, the acceleration cuts out, RPM's are rough and going up and down, sputtering, no power, no acceleration. I had to have it towed to the dealer and they diagnosed from the engine computer it was bad plugs and wires which they replaced. Low and behold, I was driving it today, the engine light is on, and it started to stall, sputter and then loose power on the highway. I managed to drive it on the shoulder for about 2 miles then it started to fire properly so that I could get home. Any idea what this could be. I asked for my $$ back since I only purchased it a week ago and they dealer gives me the run around, they want to fix it. Obviously they did not do a very good job. Any suggestions.
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hm...i'm surprised they didn't check the distributor, my boyfriend has a '96 alty and it's got about the same mileage and we had to do a full tuneup to fix pretty much the same problems. so yeah, try replacing the distributor cap and rotor, it's pretty easy and not very expensive. oh, and if the battery light starts coming on and the car starts dying, replace the alternator, we had to do that too