Help me diagnose this problem: I can't rev past 3500 RPM intermittently (AK370Z)

ZBro16

I had something similar like that happen on my Altima Coupe 3.5 6MT, but when it happened it was a weird stall that I had in a parking lot due to some moron in front of me (and a brain fart on my part). When I stalled, I restarted kinda quickly as traffic started moving again and when I clutched in, the VDC and SLIP lights came on, and I couldn't rev past 2500 rpm (it would bounce fairly violently at that RPM).

I pulled over into the next parking lot, turned off the car, waited 30 secs, started it up and the lights were gone and I never had it happen again until I traded the car (20,000 or so additional miles over a year's time.)

Your issue is peculiar as you have no trouble codes or anything. The crank position sensor is likely not it as it should throw a code.

My instinct say it's something to do with the oil temp sensor as, to my knowledge, it is the only thing that can throw a car into a "limp" mode without throwing a trouble code. A Nissan CONSULTIII tool should be able to pull the information on the temp sensor as I believe it is logged when you ping the 260 degree limit, but will not throw a code.

I would take it in and at least have them look at it. You paid for the warranty.