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Old 10-07-2012, 05:36 PM   #598 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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90 day: 66.42 mpg (US)

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Originally Posted by Sven7 View Post
...EOC'ing to a stoplight, and the thing decided to not turn on. It turned over and turned over but wouldn't do anything.... After half an hour or 45 minutes it inexplicably started working again. Turned on fine and everything. I drove it to a friend's party and everything worked as advertised.
That sounds a lot like the symptoms of my ignition coil failure last year. The coil tested normally when I warmed the car up until the fan came on. But after driving for a while, the dizzy itself got hot enough that the coil expanded a bit and failed. Then if I cooled it for an hour or more, it would run normally again. Replaced the whole dizzy with a new one under warranty from Autozone and the problem has not re-emerged in nearly a year.
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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