I have a 95 Maxima GLE that started idling rough - idle would drop to 200 RPMs and bounce up to 700 RPMs back and forth and on acceleration from start would give and go and kind of kick into acceleration. The car began to stall out at stops after braking, and then recently the car would stutter and hesitate.
While pressing the gas down it's response was slow and very sluggish and then would kick in and then hesitate and give and go(surge). I took it into firestone and had a diagnostic run, they told me I needed a rear O2 sensor, and an EGR valve, and there also looked to be a vacuum leak at the intake. I found that Pep Boys would do it for less but did not have the O2 sensor in stock. I bought the O2 sensor from the local Nissan dealer and had Pep Boys install it and the EGR valve. They also flushed the fuel system and replaced the fuel filter. Nothing has been done for the alleged vacuum leak so far. Some $600 later I still have the problem. My wife and kids were with me in the car as it stalled in front of on-coming traffic while I slowed to turn into our apartment complex.
This intermittance usually only happens after I have driven the car for about 20 minutes or more. It seems to only happen after the car gets warmed up. I can't get it to produce the same problems for a mechanic.
I looked at some similar problems in the archives of this site and back on
03/08/2005 ?BongoJoegolfer? had the exact type of problem with his ?96 Maxima although I did not see any resolution he may have found. Can anyone help?