Hello,
My name is Jake, I recently purchased a 1999 Nissan Sentra as a daily driver. I've owned one before, it was a 1996 and I've also owned a 1995 Nissan 200sx. Those cars were great, they ran and ran until the 1996 was totaled and the 200sx was too beat up to put money into.
I've owned the 1999 Nissan Sentra for about a week now, it ran great, drove two hours to pick it up and drove two hours back with no hiccups or problems at all.
The main reason I bought the car was to drive it to school, which is about a 45 minute trip one way and it would save me twice the money on gas than my previous 97' Jeep Grand Cherokee.
When I bought the car, the next day I realized that the car had a remote start. I do not think it was factory installed, but I could be incorrect as there are stickers underneath the hood on the radiator brace. I was curious as to why the person who sold me the car never mentioned it, but quickly just assumed that he hadn't owned the car long enough to know.
With these cold mornings here in Indiana, I've been using it with no real problems until the other day while in class I accidentally left the lights on in the sentra resulting in a dead battery. I had the car jumped and drove 45 minutes home with no problems. Ever since then, the car will not start remotely.
I drove the car to school again and allowed it to sit for 8 hours during my classes, and when coming back out I attempted to start it remotely and it turned over a bit, then ceased. I unlocked the doors with the remote and attempted to start the car manually, and all I keep getting is a weird clicking from the evap canister purge volume control valve. Everyone I've talked to says that this will not cause the car to not start or at least not crank over.
I've tried a few things since then such as: holding the gas to the floor while turning the key, attempting to start the car in neutral, moving from neutral to drive while attempting to start the car, checking the plugs (which were fouled) and arcing them across the intake manifold (no spark) which leads me to believe that it could be the distributor? The fuel pump does turn on.
A few more strange things about the car, when the door is open, the dome light does not always turn on, but usually will when the key is inserted. (Maybe I just assume that it's strange), and also the radio volume can't be adjusted. Not sure how the remote start was wired exactly. Tonight while trying to unhook the remote start (to no avail) I wedged my upper half into the foot area of the drivers side and noticed under the fuse panel attached to a metal brace was an on/off toggle switch and a push button switch... Clearly aftermarket. I'm not even sure what they lead to exactly, but I will be tracing soon.
Has anyone experienced any of these problems?
Thanks for your help, I tried to be as thorough as can be.
-Jake Colee
My name is Jake, I recently purchased a 1999 Nissan Sentra as a daily driver. I've owned one before, it was a 1996 and I've also owned a 1995 Nissan 200sx. Those cars were great, they ran and ran until the 1996 was totaled and the 200sx was too beat up to put money into.
I've owned the 1999 Nissan Sentra for about a week now, it ran great, drove two hours to pick it up and drove two hours back with no hiccups or problems at all.
The main reason I bought the car was to drive it to school, which is about a 45 minute trip one way and it would save me twice the money on gas than my previous 97' Jeep Grand Cherokee.
When I bought the car, the next day I realized that the car had a remote start. I do not think it was factory installed, but I could be incorrect as there are stickers underneath the hood on the radiator brace. I was curious as to why the person who sold me the car never mentioned it, but quickly just assumed that he hadn't owned the car long enough to know.
With these cold mornings here in Indiana, I've been using it with no real problems until the other day while in class I accidentally left the lights on in the sentra resulting in a dead battery. I had the car jumped and drove 45 minutes home with no problems. Ever since then, the car will not start remotely.
I drove the car to school again and allowed it to sit for 8 hours during my classes, and when coming back out I attempted to start it remotely and it turned over a bit, then ceased. I unlocked the doors with the remote and attempted to start the car manually, and all I keep getting is a weird clicking from the evap canister purge volume control valve. Everyone I've talked to says that this will not cause the car to not start or at least not crank over.
I've tried a few things since then such as: holding the gas to the floor while turning the key, attempting to start the car in neutral, moving from neutral to drive while attempting to start the car, checking the plugs (which were fouled) and arcing them across the intake manifold (no spark) which leads me to believe that it could be the distributor? The fuel pump does turn on.
A few more strange things about the car, when the door is open, the dome light does not always turn on, but usually will when the key is inserted. (Maybe I just assume that it's strange), and also the radio volume can't be adjusted. Not sure how the remote start was wired exactly. Tonight while trying to unhook the remote start (to no avail) I wedged my upper half into the foot area of the drivers side and noticed under the fuse panel attached to a metal brace was an on/off toggle switch and a push button switch... Clearly aftermarket. I'm not even sure what they lead to exactly, but I will be tracing soon.
Has anyone experienced any of these problems?
Thanks for your help, I tried to be as thorough as can be.
-Jake Colee