a month ago my car 99 civic coupe Ex died while i was driving. Would crank but not start up. I got it towed to Honda and honda diagnosed ($95 charge) and charged me 200 for a new ignition coil and install.

i went from my AEM CAI back to stock, and now my car seems to bog but not die when i'm driving up hill.

I replaced the battery and spark plugs.

for example:

i'm driving up hill in 3rd (rpms is between 3000-4000). I then feel my car jitter (hiccup) but not completely die as i'm driving up.

Whats the cause of this?? I dont want to take the car back to honda and have them charge me $95 for a diagnosis.


Modified by actek23 at 2:08 PM 7/31/2007

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by actek23 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">a month ago my car 99 civic coupe Ex died while i was driving. Would crank but not start up. I got it towed to Honda and honda diagnosed ($95 charge) and charged me 200 for a new ignition coil and install.

i went from my AEM CAI back to stock, and now my car seems to bog but not die when i'm driving up hill. I replaced the battery and spark plugs.

for example:

i'm driving up hill in 3rd (rpms is between 3000-4000). I then feel my car jitter but not completely die as i'm driving up.

Whats the cause of this?? I dont want to take the car back to honda and have them charge me $95 for a diagnosis. </TD></TR></TABLE>

what type of guarantee to they offer on their work? if your in the time spand, take it back.

 

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what type of guarantee to they offer on their work? if your in the time spand, take it back.</TD></TR></TABLE>

called honda and they said it could be timing and they would charge $50 just to set it to factory specs.

then the guy at honda said to go to shucks and get a new distributor.

talked to a friend and he recommended i just advance the timing and see if that makes it go away.

i just advanced it a bit (twisted the distributor counter clock wise a hair to the rear) We'll see how it goes in a couple days.

 

tell them if you're paying $95/hr to find out whats wrong with your car, they better find out whats wrong or it's just a guessing game you're paying for

 

I've never had good service from the people at Honda. Just my $0.02. Perhaps doing your own diagnostics before you take it to them would pay off.