I tried to brake but it wasnt enough time before I noticed the car in front of me was not moving. I believe I hit him on 20mph impact or less, the damage was not to bad. His bumper was sagging a tad bit and scratch in the middle. My front bumper is sagging a little also and my paint has stress marks.

anyways that day I noticed my steering wheel was a bit more shakey (more vibration) during a stop. Last night I pulled my car into the drive way and rolled the windows up and my idle was flucuating from 1k to 500.. even after I had the windows rolled up I switched the buttons again just to draw power and my idle was going wacky.. any ideas what might be the problem?

 

alternator, motor mounts, vaccum line.

did you look under the hood at everything?

 

Open the hood and assess what was affected by the impact.

 

I would remove the front bumper & both fenders to check for any damage or stress to the front frame of the car. Especially the radiator support. If you see paint chips or stress marks then you know your frame is tweaked a bit & will have to get it pulled.

The shaking could just be an alignment issue.

The idling problem could be almost anything. It's probably just Murphy's Law, **** happens in waves.

 

my brother rear-ended me in his accord and the idle sits at 1500 now and the car is all fixed, so i dunno maybe all hondas do this after they get some front end damage