thankyou kinks for a serious reply, its much appreciated and seems to be becoming a rare thing on this forum, a shame really
coming from an xr6t coil issues are nothing new to me, was the only problem i had with my ford but was unaware of some of the nissan ignition problems
over the weekend i pulled the valley cover off to have a look, i hadn't done so yet and was relying on receipts from the previous owner i ended up changing the plugs, it had 1.1mm platinums in it and i replaced them with 0.8mm copper cores. i know these wont last long but it was purely a diagnostics purchase as i wasnt sure if it was the plugs or not, drove it quite a lot over the weekend and it seems to have fixed the problem finger crossed
also found the coils are yellow jackets, and from what ive managed to find they should be ok? now to my newest problem, just before i did the plugs and that over the weekend i took it to work a few days and noticed when it was sitting idling it was hunting really badly (350rpm-1500rpm continuous fluctuation) and just as my luck would have it its another intermittent problem, seems to be fixed by a small tap of the throttle, was speaking to a mate today and he reckons his laurel had a similar issue and it was caused by a dodgy TPS, does this sound like i could be on the right track? again thanks for your serious reply