I'm in need of help here.. My accord randomly stalls for no apparent reason when either driving or parking but the stalls happen more when I'm parked. Just the other day, I went to the store to pick up some stuff. 15-20 minute or so after I got back to my car, I tried starting it up but it wouldn't budge. There was a rough jerking motion as if the car is "choking" and all of the dashboard lights were on. The car strangely enough, was moving. I noticed that when I turn off my car and start it up a few moments later, its more likely to lock up.


I know this isn't really a lot of detail but that's the overall rundown of what's going on. Just random stalls that don't make sense. So naturally I figured that I was just getting bad fuel so I started treating my car with octane booster and fuel injector cleaner to see if that would help things. I hadn't experienced a stall while moving since I began using the fuel injector cleaner every other tank, but the stalls while parked still happen. But I have to turn off the car for a stall to happen, to make that clear.

Is this what you guys would call a vapor lock? Any help would be much appreciated!

 

i used it but no problem still

 

Clean the throttle body. High mileage vehicles usually have an unhealthy build up of carbon near the throttle-body valve which restricts air flow (mostly @ idle). That's where I'd start