I don't know what is up with my car. Lately on occassion when I start my car, it immediately shuts off. Today it did that three times. One time the car started, but the motor was lagging, and sounded like it was misfiring or something. It would run, and then sound like it was going to turn off again, then it would go back to sounding normal, and then once again sounded like it was going to turn off. I gave it some gas, and after I gave it a little gas, my car seemed like it wanted to shut down again. I put it in first, and drove off, and it was fine. I don't know if it's the spark plugs or what.

Any advice on what it may be?? Thanks

 

Last time that happend to me..i spun my main bearing then i drove it 1~2 miles to get it to my friends house to fix...then it turned out that i warped my head driving it when it was broken... Good Luck with yours...

how many miles do you have? driven hard?


[Modified by 10K2HVN, 1:19 AM 11/29/2002]

 

Cold? Starter?

 

his car starts.

this would obviously tell you that it is not the starter.

 

only 25K miles on the motor. Don't drive hard at all.

I did a swap 3 months ago. It could be because of the cold weather, because if I go back and turn my car on shortly after driving it, it is fine.

Seems like it only happens after it has been sitting for a while.

 

I should add that this just started happening as the weather has been getting cooler.

When my car does start, it idles very, very low, like it's going to turn off.

I heard these issues may be related to having a p28 chipped computer, which I have.

 

mine kinda does that , once and a while it will throw a missfire code. i checked everythign , and i think i narrowed it down to a bad injector. ill let you know after this weekend , im gonna swap the one injector i know i have the prob on and see if it helps.

 

okay, cool, let me know, thanks

I been talking to people and doing a little more research and have found that the car symptoms I'm having, such as the idle fluxation where it will go up and then down, and then go very low, like the car is about to turn off, are actually happening to others especially when it's cold outside, and when they first turn on their car.

some say it can be attributed to the Fast Idle control Valve/ Idle Air Control valve

 

i had the same problem too...found out the 93 octane gas from diamond shamrock was the cause so i switched to 93 octane from chevron and it never happened again.. hope this helps.

 

I have that problem when i accidently turn on my AC (i dont have my AC belt in). makes it sound like i have rough idle cams...


[Modified by 10K2HVN, 12:41 PM 11/29/2002]

 

well mine does the same thing , esp when its cold.
but i know for a fact i have another issue that might be causing that , becuase i get a cell for a misfire, its nothign ignition wise, and its only on cyl 1, so im gonna swap that injector out with another one to see if the cell changes cyl. if it does, ill throw my RC 550's in early and tune em down big time with the hondata .

 

that would be my guess is that your IACV if messed up. that would connect up with the cold weather thing. hopefully you can get that fixed . if you get desperate you may have to bring it into a shop