Driving home from work, decided to pull over into a Timmy's coffee on my way back from Peterborough...
hit a rut, and BOOM lost all power, all brakes, all steering...
Glided into, and through a gas station...
past the gas pumps.....
and then finally had enough strength to push on the brakes...stopped the truck...WTF.
All dash lights on. VDC< AWD, etc....
will not crank, not even a click....
But lights are on. Dash is alive....
Radio is working....
I thought...did the battery cable just fall off the truck?
But I have power / lights / radio...everything...
Checked under the hood...serp is there...
nothing lost...fluid....nothing...everything seems good...
Truck will not start, no starter...hmmmmm....
Called CAA for a tow....and planned to go to the Nissan Dealer all worried....
So..I remembered that I purchased a Foxwell Code Reader specific for the truck, and decided that I will hook it up and see what it sees...I had it on me always in my truck.
BUT - two things I noticed
...NO CHECK ENGINE LIGHT on the dash.
...NO TRANSMISSION INDICATION on the dash as I switched through all the gears.
Pugged my code reader, and it failed to read the VIN automatically. Weird.
Dead ECU?
Manually entered the truck information, and it reads all the codes finec from the ECU....
But it could not read the VIN, but read all the modules....
I will tease you all in a second post...how I figured this out...on the side of the road, with a multi-meter I had on hand with me...and cancelled my tow... and back on the road in 30 minutes...
I'd love to hear the hypothesis of some, as to what it could have been....