i have a 97 ACCORD...
i was driving and all of a sudden my check engine light came on...and my idle dropped below 1,000...as i hit a few stop lights i had to gas up in order to keep my idle above 1,000 or my car will die...

so i get to work and let it idle below 1,000 and it sputters like its going to die...i turn to car off to see if it restarts and it does and the idle seems fairly normal now...????

any ideas on what to check for...???
a friend of mine said to check my spark plugs/wires...those haven't been changed since i've had the car...

any help i'd really appreciate...thanks in advance...

 

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my check engine light came on...


any ideas on what to check for...???
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Checking the stored trouble code would be a good start.

 

check the code.. do a search to find out how to check it... "checking engine codes" or something around that... maybe one of your vacume lines came loose hace you checked under your hood..?

 

uhh...yeah i checked under my hood...and no vacuum lines are loose...i'll do a search and see how to check my engine codes...

 

doesnt sound like a vac line, i would say something in the ignition is out of whack

 

cd best thing to do is go to autozone and have them read the ecm code and post it here ....

 

hey thanks for all the replies...i did a search and couldnt find any threads that show me how to check them on a cd5...but i did reset the ecu and now i dont have a check engine light...

so far it hasn't turned on...is this good or bad...or is it only a matter of time before it turns back on...???