car won't start!!!! help
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From: Grafton, WI.
Originally posted by Redcivic
Many mechanics and dealers will jump to the conclusion that it's the igniter but nine times out of ten it's the coil. The symptoms you are stating are identical to a bad coil. Just replace it, if it was'nt that then at least you still have a new coil. I would put my money on the coil though. Usually a bad rotor will go out gradually not all at once. A coil just goes out, some last forever and some last only a couple years. The last time mine went out it was right after I started the car (it just died and would not restart) My best friends wife has a 97' Accord and it was fine one day and would not start the next. For an external coil just get one from a junkyard. That's what we did on the Accord and that was almost two years ago and the junkyard coil is still ticking and we only paid $20.00 for it. They either work or they don't.
Many mechanics and dealers will jump to the conclusion that it's the igniter but nine times out of ten it's the coil. The symptoms you are stating are identical to a bad coil. Just replace it, if it was'nt that then at least you still have a new coil. I would put my money on the coil though. Usually a bad rotor will go out gradually not all at once. A coil just goes out, some last forever and some last only a couple years. The last time mine went out it was right after I started the car (it just died and would not restart) My best friends wife has a 97' Accord and it was fine one day and would not start the next. For an external coil just get one from a junkyard. That's what we did on the Accord and that was almost two years ago and the junkyard coil is still ticking and we only paid $20.00 for it. They either work or they don't.
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Spec5
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From: Northern VA
thanks for the insight. online sells a new coil by bosch for 37 bucks.... local store sells it for 78.....
it used to gradually go out... before it would speratically die.... almost immediately after I start it... i'd let it sit... and then it'd start fine. and be problem free for months... it started to get worse. and then now, won't start...... i'll get a new rotor just so I have a new one, they are only $8.....
it used to gradually go out... before it would speratically die.... almost immediately after I start it... i'd let it sit... and then it'd start fine. and be problem free for months... it started to get worse. and then now, won't start...... i'll get a new rotor just so I have a new one, they are only $8.....
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Spec5
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From: Northern VA
My car is fixed!
IF anyone else has a similar problem I had, you should check out your distributor system. 92-93 are supposedly prone to the distributor problems.
The problem was in fact the Ignition coil. In the process I replaced the rotor, distributor cap, ignition coil and now I replaced the spark plugs.
My spark plugs were completely worn out and out of factory gap so that might have stresed the ignition coil.
thanks for all the help... and I haven't unloaded my fuel injectors yet
IF anyone else has a similar problem I had, you should check out your distributor system. 92-93 are supposedly prone to the distributor problems.
The problem was in fact the Ignition coil. In the process I replaced the rotor, distributor cap, ignition coil and now I replaced the spark plugs.
My spark plugs were completely worn out and out of factory gap so that might have stresed the ignition coil.
thanks for all the help... and I haven't unloaded my fuel injectors yet
sancho on the sizzide!
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the coil and ignitor is always the culprit if your car is 70k miles +
you are lucky your car was parked. mine gave out on the freeway going around 60 mph
you are lucky your car was parked. mine gave out on the freeway going around 60 mph
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