my 96 accord is misfiring. i brought it to autozone and they told me that spark plug one is misfiring. he told me to find spark plug one and clean it then disconnect the battery for about 10 min and it shoould be fine BUT i did all that and its still misfiring. the car wants to die out. when i drive the car shakes badly and the check engine light is on. i need help BADLY. can someone please help me ASAP????

 

anyone??? plz??

 

OK I’ll tell you my way, call your best buddy
Remove the plug that not working
Clean it with a sand paper
Don’t install that yet
Insert that cleaned plug in to the plug wire
Find some rag and hold that plug’s body to car’s body (ground) ask you buddy to crank the engine
Can you see any spark? Oh good
No spark ? then remove Distributor Cap and Rotor and check the Ignition Coil with a digital multi meter, if distributor cap and rotor bad replace them as well

Hope this help

Oh if the Ignition Coil bad replace that too .
ooh check that plug wire too.. with you ohmmeter, measure resistance.

 

im hopeing it will

 

when i had broght it to autozone the code was 301? anyone have a clue??? any other suggestions i could fix my problem?

 

Did you change the plug? Unless you have a coil for each plug I think it would have to be the plug or the wire.

 

the spark plugs are brand new

 

Well, the next thing to check would be the #1 wire. If you have a multimeter you can check the resistance. Sorry, don't know what it's supposed to read. Maybe check all four, and see if #1 is different.

 

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what kind of plugs are you using?

 

they are bosch platnium sparkplugs

 

Everyone here is going to tell you that the NGK's are better, and its best to stick with stock plugs and other ignition goods unless you are heavily modified, and even then the NGK's work best (disclaimer, I'm sure there are cases that this is not true)

But, yes, check to see if there is spark before you do anything else.

sohc

 

i agree with him i had bosch platinum and my car was running ruff, so i baught NGK sparkplugs and they work. but anyways, you may be arching the wire, or just a bad cap and rotor, those r your only choises

 

aside installing NGK plugs ,,,make sure the injector on that particular cylinder is working

 

for sure use the oem ngs and i bet your misfire will go away

 

well i fixed the problem.....turns out it was my spark plug wires. they were gettin old and ****** up on me. my car runs great now but i think imma change it back to my ngk spark plugs i bought a while ago. see if theres any diff

 

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i think i kno wat u talkin bout the car running kinda rough.......the car kinda shakes when its idling. this is when i start up the car and let it sit..........like i said i think imma change it back to my nkg sparkplugs

 

Plugs or wires, simple really.

 

imma change it back to my ngk plugs

 

Good idea.