can someone help me by telling me what is the most common cause of this. or how you had the problem and fixed it? thanks in advance.


Modified by bboyprelude at 2:26 PM 5/23/2003

 

if the car stalls.. then its the drivers fault... more practice if u suck at driving

 

If its a standard, hold down the clutch at the stop. Hehe...
Sorry other than that Need more details to the problem.

 

okay the car shuts off at stand stills. i don't suck at driving. i can have the car in neutral at a stop and my foot only on the brake and it will stall.

the rpms seem to drop below zero and continue to sometimes until the car shuts off.

 

well is this a recent issue? you might want to try reseting you ecu, or chek you air filter and or fuel filter. i had a dirty fuel filter once that was ******* with my idle and bogging up top, fuel filter is supposed to be replaced ever 10k or is it 30k? but if all else fails ajust your idle screw.

 

thanks for the advice i never thought about the fuel filter. how much dow a new one cost? i'm going to try the ecu first though.

 

my rpms get damn near zero when Im stopped with the A/c on, they jump up and down, but ive never stalled out from it.

 

Fill your car with gas

 

okay it's a idling problem. not gas or the air conditioner.

to add to my problem discription: the car will also begin to lose power steering control at extremly slow speeds. (i almost wrecked pulling out of a driveway b/c my car shut off one time as i was turning onto the road, but i have also experienced it being harder to turn because it was the power steering was going out) this is due to the rpms dropping to about zero. (of course zero would mean the engine is not on)

seriously need help asap. it's almost the weekend and memorial day is going to have shops closed monday.

 

There's an idle adjustment screw that you can use to raise/lower you idle rpms. If it's just cutting off, because the idle is set too low, then I'd start there... don't just go BUYING stuff untill you've solved the problem. Try to narrow the cause down a little... anyway, HTH.

Dan P.

 

check everything. im thinking its fuel delivery. i dunno, guess a guess

 

what is the regular idle speed for the 4 gen prelude? mine is about 650 rpm.

 

yeah i have about the same idle when i start my car. but after it warms up it starts to do all that crazy stuff. i think i'll try to adjust the idle though. if that works then i'm guessing my car will idle very high before it's warmed up.