New Member 2004 Nissan Primera Estate

UPDATE please make sticky Admin 

Resolved my issue with a reset - Shall keep you all informed of this.

Thank you nissan_navara.net !!!! and thank you edk_N16

""Thanks to Boohoo for reading through the workshop manual, resetting ECU and FUEL pump MAY help in cutting down on that horrible tapping noise that the D40 suffers from.
Ive carryed out this reset and the engine is alot smoother, more responsive, less smokey and alot less tappy.

To carry out the reset carry out the following

Turn ingnition on so all dash lights come on.

Wait 3 seconds

PUMP accelerator pedel 5 times within 5 seconds....

with foot now OFF accelerator wait 7 seconds...

After 7 seconds press and hold down accelerator pedel for 10 seconds...

Atfer 10 seconds the Engine Managment Light will start to flash, at this point remove foot from accelerator.

the Nav is now in diag mode, so let the EML flash for a bit. the press and hold the acclerator pedel down for more than 10 seconds..this will then reset ECU and fuel pump etc......and put them into learning mode.

NOTE: When the EML light is flashing, this is listing possible fault codes... so if you know how to read the fault codes or know the sequences then you can figure out any possible faults with your Nav with out getting the dealer to do it!!""""

That is great if not incredible news sparkscafc, thanks for posting that. One more piece of evidence, looks like this may be a cheap fix heading to the 'How to ' section

Thanks for the feed back, it all great intelligence

kaybur1 wrote: Hi im new to this forum came here from another trying to find an answer i have a 53 reg p12 dci with exactly same probs ie drops into limp mode if i idle for more than a few seconds and switch off and on will reboost the power until i idle it again . i really hope your problem is solved unfortunately mine isnt i found that reset you are talking about 12 months ago and i must have reset mine 100s of times in the last year and it never lasts  sometimes it will last a couple of weeks sometimes days the worst i had was resetting it 10 times in 1 day btw i am a taxi driver doing about 200 miles a day. self diagnostic on mine came up with0089 error code funny thing when i paid nissan 200 quid for a diagnostic they said there was no fault and they couldnt explain why it keeps going into limp mode. only good thing is i can now do a reset with my eyes shut .

UPDATE

Since the reset my car went great, though bad news since the past 5weeks going on 6weeks! took the car for a little ahem bit of fun racing a Audi 2.5tdi estate

Next day, the car goes back into its old hunting idle ways and now cuts out...  Its been at the mechanic for a very long time, we changed the SVC and changed the seals as the pressure was going up and down due to the seals being worn allowing air in, all that done and done the reset, there was no change, checked all the earths of the vehicle, and found one on the gearbox to be totally ripped off, we mended that, still the car was struggling to start, when I got the car starting (after a good few attempts) the power was there, it took off without a struggle, as soon as I parked, it would turn off.  The car is really struggling to start, the fuel filter is new, has had a recent service, EGR valve working correctly, fuel rail lines checked all seem good, We even checked the fuel tank pump located under the rear seat, no problems there at all.

We spent hours looking for any other problems, we decided on 2 possibilities

a) The Injectors are losing pressure
b) The Fuel Pump

HELP!  Can the Injectors cause this? if one is faulty? It cannot be the pump can it? When it fires over the power is there on the drive, when you park up or stop it cuts off...