So I've noticed something on my car and it's concerning me. About 2 weeks ago, I was driving and came to a stop. When I pulled off(not getting on it at all), the car started to jerk back and forth pretty violently. Almost like the car was fixing to stall. I looked at the gauges and saw nothing. I described this to some buddies and they figured it to be my traction control. So I turned it off and got on the car. Wheels spun but no jerking motion. Today, I was driving in rainy weather and it was doing the same thing when I got into the 4-5k rpm range when hitting the throttle hard. No "SLIP" light and I turned the traction control off and it was still doing the same thing. Any ideas what this could possibly be? Thanks

 

If you're not getting the slip light, the problem has nothing to do with VDC/TCS. Also, when VDC kicks in it cuts power for a second or two. That wouldn't cause the jerky motion you described.

 

Okay well I've been looking and thinking about the times it has done it and the first time was when I had just got done washing the car and then it's not ever done it while the car was dry(to my knowledge). I let my car dry off today and tried it again, getting on the car hard and nothing happened. So I'm starting to wonder if maybe my intake is sucking water? But that is such a long tube for that water to travel up, it just doesn't seem fesiable. I think I'm just going to take it to nissan.

 

Let us know what they say/said.

 

I had a problem like that but my slip light and check engine light came on. It was a bad throttle chamber. Dealer replaced it.