No acceleration when car in Drive

"Your check engine light means that there is an error code stored that will tell you where the issue is. Nissans will go into a ""limp home"" mode that limits the engine RPM if certain codes are detected to allow you to drive the vehicle to a safe location before shutting it off. I'm assuming this is what has happened with your vehicle.

You need to plug an OBDII code reader into the plug located somewhere under your dash near the steering column and find out what the error code stored is, then do a search on that code to find out what error it represents, then on that code and your specific vehicle to find more information."

Take the car to an Auto Zone and get a free computer readout to tell you what's going on with the engine. Then you'll be much better armed to know what to do. Until then you're just guessing with a very expensive piece of machinery.

"Hi, just went through a similar problem with a 06 Sentre were the accelerator would have zero response when in Drive or Reverse.

We found our problem to be a bad alternator (it was charging some, but not correct ). In our situation the problem was evident with the lights on and ran fine with them off. Something about the voltage being flaky.

hope this is helpful to someone."

I have same problem in my 2004 quest van. The box in transmission has a recall. What it does is if one tire is on ice and the other tire is on dry ground it locks everything out(engine,trans.), can only coast. When I start to drive van it will be locked out. You need to put it in park shut it off wait 2 seconds then restart it. It will be fine.

The same thing happened to me, infinity nissan cars in 1997, most likely the oxygen sensor or the MAF mass airflow sensor, sometimes with the toggling on and off the car can run normally, it does not happen again when I clean the MAF sensor and check connection of the two sensors.

Disconnect the NEGATIVE cable to your battery for about 30 seconds. Reattach the cable & tighten so connection wont move. Turn/Press start until radio comes on, but DON’T press the brake peddle to start the vehicle yet! Wait 5 seconds then turn off. Next start your vehicle as usual. It may or may not fix the problem, but it should let you drive home or to your Nissan service center.