My car loses power completely after driving on the interstate for 30ish minutes. Alternator is fine, battery is fine, not running hot. Any ideas?

Asked by hortonj Jan 29, 2015 at 02:17 PM about the 2001 Nissan Sentra

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

We stopped for 10 min. It cranked and ran fine for another 30 min and it did it again.
Towed it to mechanic who has driven it around town and everything is fine.

Randell answered 9 years ago

check Catalytic converter !

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