thank you all for your input. They are how ever individual ones. They are not wires. I called the dealer and they told me $48.00 a cylinder. the guy just called it the plug. I will take a pic for you peeps to see. The car Kai is a 02 Civic and it is out of warrenty and out of the extended warrenty. I have 65k miles on it. I work in real estate and drive like a MOFO. Will take a pic for you.

Rob..

 

Yeah, I hadn't heard about the newer civics using anything different, but what he described kinda sounded like it to me.

Also Kai is correct about the individual thing, I have yet to see plug wires sold individually...


I am curious to see what part your describing.

 

dont buy dealer parts for an out of warranty car. its just not worth it basic spark plug wires (which is what u are trying to describe) are just as good, the only reason spark plugs from dealer are more expensive is because of the little "H" emblem on them, plain and simple. 02' civics do not have coil packs which is aka coil over wire.

 

remember guys i have no idea what i am talking about and am probably wrong but here is my engine. The 4 black little sqaure things you see thats where my spark plugs go...

 

yes your spark plugs are under those wires, i thought u said u had replaced your spark plugs? if so u would know they go under there bro? those are infact your spark plug wires those black things on top of them are part of the plug wire.

 

yes i did replace the spark plugs and i do know that they go under there. what i was trying to get across is that they are not like the normal spark plugs that go to the distributer cap. That they were individually connected. I am sorry if i didnt explain my self correctly.

Now that we are all on the same page, how can i test them to see which is indeed the one that is bad?

Rob


ps. by normal spark plug wires i mean that they are not like the ones you see below.

 

ok sorry bro i was confused. ok now that we are on the same page here ya go. it is a little dangerous but if u have a non - firing spark plug wire this is how u can determine which it may be. u can go to any certain spark plug wire pull it off of the spark plug as if u were going to replace the plugs and pull out the spark plug as well, once u have the park plug in hand put the wire back on the now in ur hand plug as if it were in the engine and lay the wire while connect somewhere in the engine bay (where it will reach) preferably near a screw or something it will ground on and start the car if the spark plug sparks u know that wire is most likely still good. do this until u find a spark plug not firing (sparking) and that is your culpret. godo luck bro beware the plug while out of the engine will make a decent size spark and it will make a zapping type sound this is normal.

 

one more thing for u. what makes u think that your plug wire is bad? what is your car doing to make u think this? or did i just miss it while reading. if i just missed it maybe u can refresh my memory. thanks man i would love to help you more so any info u can give me would greatly help diagnose the car.

 

yes they are indivdual coils, ie. electronic ignition for each cylinder.

allegedly honda has moved to this from simple distributor after 01.

majestic honda has a good price on it, i buy most of my parts from them. They are lazy though and you wont get it tomorrow...even if you pay for next day air.
sometimes i seriously consider driving to RI to attack the parts manager there...Carlos.
they lead the pack with pricing and selection though soooo.

as far as whether or not this could be the problem...i will naturally assume that since you changed your plugs this problem has been occuring. Therefore i would expect the problem to be rooted in something you did. Maybe you dropped or were rough with the coil pack when it was removed and you cracked some of the lead on the transformer inside. Who knows. Test each coil pack individually or just buy 1 new one and swap each out one by one until you find the bad one.

~kris

 

i have been having a problem with the car hesitating some times and then giving me CEL. Once it blinked 16 times (fuel injectors). so i took the car and gave it a fuel injector cleaning. Still the car ran hesitating. Someone told me if it could be the spark plugs. Changed the spark plugs and the car ran smooth for 2 days. The missing came back. Got the 16 flashes on CEL so i removed the fuel injectors and cleaned them out.

Car ran awsome turned it on and CEL was gone. Worked nice for about 3 days. I am back with the car missing/hesitating. My brother in laws friend has a computer. I took it to him and he pluged it up. he told me that he got a code for the intake sensor and that there was a random misfire in the piston because of the spark plugs. I beleive its not the actual plugs because I just changed them. SO the only other thing that is related to the spark plugs i can think of are the plug wires. He told me my problem was electrical and not with the injectors as i thougt. i am a little short on money and i called the dealer for the plugs they said about $48.00 each and $31.00 for the intake sensor

Rob