Hi, I'm new to this so I will start by saying Hello... Hope all of you are well and doing ok...
My check engine light is coming on, on my 1993 Honda Del Sol after I have driven it for awhile... no engine noises, no other problems except a strange rattle occasionally just started today.
The only thing I know about the engine is it says on the engine "16 valve engine" Also, it does have somewhere over 150,000 miles not sure how many, the dashboard has been changed out.
I just purchased my car on Sat. July 16,2005 was told the car was in great shape of course murphys law applies to me.
Please help what might be wrong with my engine.

I am :sad: because I :hsdunno: what to do.

Thank you all,
DA

 

DA-

With most 92-95 Civics including the del sol, there is a small 2pin connector located just behind your glove box on the passenger side of the car. This connector is used to read trouble codes through your OBD1 system ( on board diagnostics ) If you have the mechanical ability I would invest in a haynes or chiltons shop manual that you can find at any local autozone or checker parts store. They are about $15 and well worth it. The manuals will show you step by step how to read trouble codes. It can be anything from an 02 sensor malfucntion to brake systems. All you have to do is use a paper clip or jumper wire to bridge the 2pin connector, your check engine light will flash a sequence and it will correspond to a sequence in the shop manual. Let me know how it goes, othewise you can always go into the dealer and bend over and pay the $80 to have your codes read.

-Tom

 

Thank you so much, I really appreciate your help and will follow your instructions.

Thanks,
DA

 

...or you can do it for free:

Checking codes: http://www.c-speedracing.com/faq/06.php

What the codes mean: http://www.c-speedracing.com/faq/05.php

 

Thank you Schmoo,
I really appreciate that help. when I looked at the trouble codes 1-9, does it mean when the light flashes one long time thats for trouble code one, and two long flashes is trouble code two and so on to nine or ten.
Then when it reachs 11 it will have ten short flashs and one long.
I was having a problem in figuring this out. Unless I missed something I was suppose to have read.

Thanks,
DA

 

one long flash- 10
one short flash - 01
two long flash - 20
two long flash and a short flash - 21
and so on....

^
these are some examples... reading codes can b tricky... its a good idea to write down the codes as u read them especially if u are throwing more than one code...

 

I have a 95 Civic EX. My CEL has come on a few times in the last week, and I was able to use your advice to find the problem. Now it's just a matter of fixing it!
Thanks so much to all of you for the tips! DasSchmoo's links were very helpful. One thing I would add for anyone like me who is not much of a mechanic. The easiest way for me to get to the 2-pin connector is to get behind the glove box. To do that, I just emptied all the junk out of it, found the "stops" on the side that stop the glovebox when you open it. Spray those with some WD40 and wiggle/rotate them forward so the glovebox now opens about twice as much as it did. Behind it and on the far right are some connectors. I didn't see anything green, but it was the only blue connector with two wires going into it.

Now I just need to figure out how to fix my ECT sensor...