2010 CIVIC 1.8
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2010 CIVIC 1.8
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My girlfriend has a 2010 Civic 1.8L unfortunately, she has not done a great job maintaining the car. The car does have around 150k miles on it for a frame of reference. Out of no where when leaving her job the car would not start and run,. The car cranks over perfectly and will run for a second then immediately dies...if I catch it in time and start giving it gas and then let go of the gas it will run fine. It will continue to run fine until you shut the car off again. The other weird thing is this is not every time I would say it is more often then not maybe 7 out of 10 starts it will do this but the other 3 times it starts up with out any issues. Even more rare maybe 2 out of 10 starts the lights on the dashboard will flash like crazy.
My first thought was maybe a bad battery or alternator...I checked the battery with the car off and its consistently hitting around 12.7V when turning the car on its around 14.7V. So I do not think it is either the battery or alternator.
Tomorrow I am planning on replacing the air intake filter and cleaning the MAF sensor + Throttle body, doing a oil change, and changing the spark plugs and coils packs because god only knows when it was last done. I am not optimistic this will actually cure the problem but I figured it needs to be done regardless. I also was planning to check the grounds and see if those are properly secured.
Anyone have any other ideas? I've read some people saying to check the alternator fuse? Not sure which fuse or where it would be located. Other then that I can't find any other info.
My girlfriend has a 2010 Civic 1.8L unfortunately, she has not done a great job maintaining the car. The car does have around 150k miles on it for a frame of reference. Out of no where when leaving her job the car would not start and run,. The car cranks over perfectly and will run for a second then immediately dies...if I catch it in time and start giving it gas and then let go of the gas it will run fine. It will continue to run fine until you shut the car off again. The other weird thing is this is not every time I would say it is more often then not maybe 7 out of 10 starts it will do this but the other 3 times it starts up with out any issues. Even more rare maybe 2 out of 10 starts the lights on the dashboard will flash like crazy.
My first thought was maybe a bad battery or alternator...I checked the battery with the car off and its consistently hitting around 12.7V when turning the car on its around 14.7V. So I do not think it is either the battery or alternator.
Tomorrow I am planning on replacing the air intake filter and cleaning the MAF sensor + Throttle body, doing a oil change, and changing the spark plugs and coils packs because god only knows when it was last done. I am not optimistic this will actually cure the problem but I figured it needs to be done regardless. I also was planning to check the grounds and see if those are properly secured.
Anyone have any other ideas? I've read some people saying to check the alternator fuse? Not sure which fuse or where it would be located. Other then that I can't find any other info.