Yesterday I was driving on the parkway and going up on a slight incline my car felt like something snapped and lost all power to the engine. When I had the car in gear and pressing on the gas it had no horsepower behind it at all. So I coasted to the side of the road with the car still running. My first thought was the timing belt. But when I went to go start the car back up it took awhile but it did eventually start so that ruled out the timing belt.

After I had it towed to the shop and they had a honda tech take a look at it, they are saying it can be a combination of 3 things. 2 of which they didn't inform me of cause they weren't sure yet, but 1 thing they did tell me was the camshaft might have snapped..Still waiting for a follow-up call right now. Was wondering if anybody here has had similar problems like this and could possibly feed me some info!

Thanks in advanced!

 

timing belt snapps your car doesnt work period, camshafts dont jsut snap ethier. transmission may have went, depending on how hard you are on it, but its hard to say without any further information

 

I found it hard to believe when they told me the camshaft broke too. but i just called my buddy who works for honda and he said its possible but extremely rare.

 

ok so i just got off the phone with them again.. they said they think it might be the camshaft sensor now.. which makes alittle more sense

 

I'd suggest driving to autozone (if posisble) and having them read the engine codes (I assume you popped a check engine light right? )

I recently had a crank shaft position sensor go on my 02 civic ex, the car would go fine up to 3k rpm, anything over and it bogged down. Fortunately I was able to get it there by creeping along under 3k rpm .

They read the check engine code, and it was the sensor. Brought it to my honda tech buddy who installed my new sensor and problem solved.

Autozone is really helpful because this takes all the guess work out of the equation and they do it free because they hope you'll buy your new parts there.

Hope this helps


steve