as you all know the honda crv is notorious for this kind of crap, i just purchased a 1998 crv lx and at the time of purchase all seemed perfect the car turned on it drove no problems no CEL nothing, then about 100 miles later i get to gas station, i pump gas and then go to turn on the car to continue home and the car did not want to start, it kept cranking and cranking until the cranking started to speed up and the car eventually started. but it started very weak like it didn't sound normal is sounded week then after a few seconds it went back to normal idle and i revved it a couple of times and it sounded normal, so at this point im troubled did i buy a lemon or what, so then i get back on the road and continue home and i get home and then the CEL comes on with these codes P0300, P0301, P0304, and 1399, now these are all common misfire codes but what does this have to do with the way the car starts, is it the plugs, wires, rotor, cap, dizzy, compression, head block, im confused and would love some help right now

sorry for the long post i wanted to be as descriptive as possible

 

I would definitely put some new plugs, wires, and distributor cap and rotor on it and go from there. Those items are relatively inexpensive and will at least give you a good starting point if they don't fix the problem.

 

+1. The key is knowing the maintenance history of what has been perfomed and not performed. If you don't know for certain, you have to start servicing it as it was never before done. Since 1997 we've owned every generation of CRV, now with a 2011 EX-L.

Start with what Hawkze suggested. Let us know what you find...

 

well turns out the timing was sort of off i adjusted the distributor and it started right up no problems and i left it running for a while, turned out pretty good i reset the lights and gonna go from there , it didnt give me a hard time trying to crank it it started from the first turn like new, so well hope and see if that fixes it