philnotfil

Last car died (transmission) and had to buy a car yesterday afternoon to get the kids to school this morning. Ended up with 2002 Honda Civic Coupe DX (thank you to Dave Ramsey for encouraing an emergency fund, bails us out on a yearly basis, really does turn catastrophes into annoyances).

A couple of things before I've really had a chance to dig into it:
Only has one key, can additional keys be programmed from the car or will I need to find someone with the right equipment to get it working?

Trunk latch isn't holding well, rattles when driving, with a little bit of effort I can pull the trunk open. Any hope for adjusting this, or replace the latch? I'm fine with tying it down from the inside and ignoring it if this is an expensive fix

Gas cap cover doesn't latch. It stays closed and I can push the offside to pop it open, so low priority. How hard is it to replace the cable and get this working properly?

A couple drops of oil on the ground this morning, rear driver side. Any commons leaks over there? Any suggestions on where to start with for hunting this down?

Shimmies at highway speeds, hopefully getting an alignment will take care of that. Any other common reasons for this car to do that that I should be aware of?

Thanks,
Phillip

sdaidoji

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nowadays keysmiths carry key programmer devices

sdaidoji

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https://www.civicforums.com/forums/1...gen-civic.html

philnotfil

Thanks, all kinds of good stuff in there

Colin42

key has to be programmed as stated earlier

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Originally Posted by philnotfil

Trunk latch isn't holding well, rattles when driving, with a little bit of effort I can pull the trunk open. Any hope for adjusting this, or replace the latch? I'm fine with tying it down from the inside and ignoring it if this is an expensive fix

You can try to adjust, latch might be seized

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Time consuming, but not hard, most of the interior trim on the driver's side has to come off.

At the rear of the car? Gas tank


Check the front end, control arm bushings might be torn

philnotfil

Apologies for the lack of clarity, rear left of the engine. I wiped things down and it appears to be above the oil pan gasket rather than from the oil pan gasket. Still can't clearly see a source for the leak, it's kind of crowded there.

Colin42

So on the pulley side of the engine towards the firewall, and above the pan
could be valve cover gasket, could even be that whoever did the last oil change made a mess and didn't clean it up, or the filter might be leaking.

BrotatoChip

I've seen a few oil leaks from the O-ring on the oil pump (17 in the below pic). This is an O-ring between the oil pump and the block. Leak shows up almost exactly where you mention, rear driver side corner just above the oil pan.

sdaidoji

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for oil leaks, you usually need to start from the uppermost signs of oil.

whoever, it could be this too:
Clean the oil, drive a while and re-check to pinpoint where the oil is coming from.
If around the head, these are common - thank you, i ended up adding this to that thread link above