My daughter's '98 Accord with 192k miles 2.3L LX
I noticed once or twice since '09 that while driving, the car would simply stall.
I'd throw it into Neutral, turn the key and go on my merry way. I think it only happened to me 2 times and mentioned this to my daughter and told what to do in case it happned to her.
Not a peep until the last few months when she told me it happened twice on a trip to Atlantic City... same deal. She simply put the car in Neutral, turned the key and then lost a lot of money on the slots
I just changed her oil today and when I tried to start it, it sputtered to a stall. Would start but as soon as I released the key, would sputter to a stall. That's odd, I thought.. so I turned the key again - same thing. 4th attempt it started like normal and I drove up to local gas station, filled the tank and headed home
Took me over 30 minutes to get drive 1.5 miles... every hundred feet or so, the car would just die. Took quite a while to get it started, would drive a couple hundred feet, then it would die. Did that the entire way home
Of course now it's the onset of rush hour and all the roads here are narrowed because of the volumes of snow that wasn't removed... suffice it to say I didn't make a lot of friends
I researched this somewhat on an accord forum and, although not quite the same symptoms, a few said it could be the Ignition Switch that needs to be replaced....?
I'm fine with this if I could be sure that was the problem, but the darned things cost $150+ and, being electrical, you can't return them
Anyone have any thoughts as to whether or not I'm o the right track?
Any other ideas?
To repeat - all I did was change the oil... nothing else
I noticed once or twice since '09 that while driving, the car would simply stall.
I'd throw it into Neutral, turn the key and go on my merry way. I think it only happened to me 2 times and mentioned this to my daughter and told what to do in case it happned to her.
Not a peep until the last few months when she told me it happened twice on a trip to Atlantic City... same deal. She simply put the car in Neutral, turned the key and then lost a lot of money on the slots
I just changed her oil today and when I tried to start it, it sputtered to a stall. Would start but as soon as I released the key, would sputter to a stall. That's odd, I thought.. so I turned the key again - same thing. 4th attempt it started like normal and I drove up to local gas station, filled the tank and headed home
Took me over 30 minutes to get drive 1.5 miles... every hundred feet or so, the car would just die. Took quite a while to get it started, would drive a couple hundred feet, then it would die. Did that the entire way home
Of course now it's the onset of rush hour and all the roads here are narrowed because of the volumes of snow that wasn't removed... suffice it to say I didn't make a lot of friends
I researched this somewhat on an accord forum and, although not quite the same symptoms, a few said it could be the Ignition Switch that needs to be replaced....?
I'm fine with this if I could be sure that was the problem, but the darned things cost $150+ and, being electrical, you can't return them
Anyone have any thoughts as to whether or not I'm o the right track?
Any other ideas?
To repeat - all I did was change the oil... nothing else