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98 Civic LX. While driving last week engine just quit on me, tried 3 times to restart and immediately stalled, let it sit for couple minutes and restarted ok and ran fine. Changed the fuel filter and four days later it quit on me again while driving. Am replacing the main relay today and hoping that fixes it. Will keep you all posted.
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Put in new main relay today and it quit on me again about an hour later. Any one have any ideas about what is causing it to just quit running? It will start back up after I let it sit a few minutes.
It used to 'hiccup' while driving. Dash warning lights would flash, but the car would keep operating. In the past few months that 'hiccup' would result in the car stalling. I could leave it off for 1-2 minutes and then it would start again.
It doesn't seem to matter what gear it is in or what speed the car is going.
Recall Summary
ON CERTAIN SEDANS, COUPES, HATCHBACKS, AND SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES, ELECTRICAL CONTACTS IN THE IGNITION SWITCH CAN DEGRADE DUE TO THE HIGH ELECTRICAL CURRENT PASSING THROUGH THE SWITCH WHEN THE VEHICLE IS STARTED.
Consequence
WORN CONTACTS COULD CAUSE THE ENGINE TO STALL WITHOUT WARNING, INCREASING THE RISK OF A CRASH.
However my VIN was not part of this recall. The garage I took it to replaced this part, and I still have the same issue. However, now it is somewhat 'worse'. Now there is no longer any 'hiccup'. I'll be driving and the engine will suddenly quit without warning.
I'll keep you posted. Any suggestions are welcome.
Sometimes when I first start the car it will run for about half a second and die, might do this once or twice in a row and then it starts fine. Bought a new ignition switch yesterday on ebay so will see how that works out.
Check the Oxygen sensor. My engine light just turned on 3 days ago and the engine almost quit today while I was driving. AutoZone said it was the a/f sensor. I'm taking it to Midas tomorrow.
My mechanic found that my distributer and cap were defective, he replaced them and put on new ignition wires last Friday, so far so good.
Same problem with my ex girlfriend's car over the weekend. She called me when it happened and I thought fuel delivery as well. Then she brought it to a shop the next day and he said it's the distributor.
Check your timing to see if something got adjusted there while fooling with the distributor. Also turn the key to ACC and see if you can hear the fuel pump coming on. If not that it could also be the fuel pump relay.
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I had the same prob and it got more frequent till i took my ign switch out and you can seperate the two pieces and find the contact point corrode i sanded them down a little and it worked for a few months then started again. sure enough took it apart and it was worn down to nothin so took one out of another honda at the junk yard and has been fine for the last 8 months.
well according to the recall that guy posted about the electrial problem i mean if you have too many watts flowing through your ignition switch it sounds like to me its nothing that a simple relay cant fix. but idk.
Looks like problem solved. Called Honda dealer and there was a recall on my
ignition switch. Had it replace at dealer for free on Tuesday, been fine since.
Thanks for all the help.
i have the same exact problem it only happens to me either wen its too cool outside or wen it has low gas my car is automatic it only turns off wen the rpm's go down to 1 i did a diagnostic and found out i have throttle malfunctions and bad oxygen sensors if that helps..
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