Sometimes when I start my car, I get a really low, lumpy idle and the car almost wants to die. This doesn't happen very often at all. The other 95% of the time when I start my car, it starts up just fine and Idles normally.

The other night this happened, and the CEL came on for about 5 miles. I turned the car off and let it sit for a while, then started it up like 30 minutes later and it was just fine with NO CEL.

Anybody have any idea?

 

Pull the cell code, that's what it is there for.

 

ya check the code. what year is your car?

 

its a 1999 LS. Sorry but I don't know how to pull codes, I guess I'll search unless somebody wants to spoon feed it to me really quick.

 

Only coming up with 1 result. Im assuming my car is OBD2, how do I pull codes on it -_-

 

Ok I think I figured it out. The CEL flashed 7 times slowly, then 4 times fast, so Im guessing Code 74
Which is random misfire on cylinder 4. #4 cylinder...dead? Idle is real shitty right now, and was hard to start..


Modified by dezerte at 11:53 PM 3/18/2007

 

Perform a compression check. Several things can cause this:

bent valve
poorly adjusted valves
bad spark plug
bad plug wire
bad distributor cap
bad distributor rotor
clogged fuel injector
etc.

BTW: the Integra forum faq thread has a link to a tutorial for CELs.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Dogginator &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Perform a compression check. Several things can cause this:

bent valve
poorly adjusted valves
bad spark plug
bad plug wire
bad distributor cap
bad distributor rotor
clogged fuel injector
etc.

BTW: the Integra forum faq thread has a link to a tutorial for CELs.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Thanks a bunch, very helpful