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Hello, I have a 2004 nissan sentra 1.6L, manual trans with 130K, good shape. Recently it has started to buck occasionally, usually in 2nd or 3rd gear. This became worse yesterday. Plugs are new (months), I checked them and the wires and seem OK. Rare hard starts recently, but fine today. Engine will drive but randomly rev up to 2500 or so and start to misfire. Exhaust looks and smells OK. Wondering if this could be an O2 sensor, throttle body or computer problem. Thanks!

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Is the check engine light on? o2 sensors will set an engine code as well as set for lean or rich conditions. being a 2004 model if it is an engine misfire condition this also should set an engine code. most likely with the symptoms you have you have a plug wire getting a bad spot in it. as the engine gets hot the plug wire will cause an engine misfire.

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