My car is has a miss fire?

Question

My dad told me to take it over to the auto parts store and have them test it. Says it might be a miss fire in #4 think they mean piston. On the road it basically starts to shake and it doesn't shift gears quick enough during excelleration. Is this something i can have a friend fix and what kinda of estimate do you think the labor and parts are valued at? The car is a Nissan Maxima 2001 v6. Could it also be the catalytic converter also?

Answer 1

Primary suspect is the coils, there have been much trouble with maxima and the bad coils. They are not hard to change but are about $80 each X 6 = $480. You can just change the one in #4 cylinder, but you may continue to have problems as others fail!

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2228703/4

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_rep...

There is a lot of info on this one, I belong to the club also!

Good luck!