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will
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Dec 19, 2007, 3:26 PM
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 I have a 1998 Honda Accord that has 128,289 miles on it--has been maintained according to manufacturer and all scheduled maintenance has been accomplished. It is a 4 door sedan, LX, 4 cylinder, Auto tranmission and is in excellent shape--EXCEPT for the fact that it will just quit while you are driving it--has happened about once a month for the past 4-5 months. Typically what happens is what happened to me last Thursday: Took my daughter to Charlotte NC to catch a plane (appx 100 miles from Greenville SC) and as we came off the exit ramp to a side road to the airport the car just cut off (travelling about 25 miles per hour) and all the trouble lights lit up like a christmas tree. I cut the car off completely and tried to restart--again all the warning lights and alarms began to sound. Cut if off, tried again, and same resutlts. On the third try, it cranked, and we went on to the airport--no warning lights were on. Traveled back to Greenville, stopping a couple of times, and no problem. Since then I have driven the car every day, sometimes two or three times and no recurrent problem. A new battary was installed about 6 weeks ago and the battary cables are tight and clean--problem started a couple of months prior to the battary change-out. I am thinking that I might have a problem with a wire that is bare and just shorts out somethimes and causes a problem that is intermittent. Can anyone give me some help and advice as to what the problem might be and how I can go about checking it out. Thanks Will
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Angler250
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Jan 2, 2008, 10:32 PM
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Re: Car just quits
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I had a similar problem with a '91 Integra. It started out as an occasional stutter, where at idle, it would feel like it missed firing a cylinder. The problem became more pronounced as time passed. One day while on the freeway, it just quit. The difference is, rather than a hard shutter, it just smoothly and quitetly lost all power. The problem turned out to be the distributor. It controls the ignition timing as well as the fuel injection system. The first problem I was seeing was the pick-up for the ignition. The latter was the pick-up for the fuel injection. It took me a while to figure this one out since a year and a half ago the distributor was replaced for an unrelated problem, so I didn't suspect it to be going bad so soon. The first replacement was a remanufactured distributor. The second was a new one. If this turns out to be your problem, I'd pay a little more and go for the brand new unit first. I lived with the stutter problem for more than a year, and the fuel problem left me stuck. Not having to go through all that would be well worth the extra cost. Hope this helps. Good luck.
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