Hello all,

I drive a 2002 honda civic and I've recently started having some weird problems with it.
It does not do this all the time, has been over a week since the last time.

What it does : Weird feel of loss of power, battery light and check engine light "flashes", when i try to accelerate it goes up to 2500-3000 rpm and feels like i hit the firestop (?translated this from google, lol.)
- edit 2 : It "sputters", feels like it wants to stall. no idea how else i could explain this.

Few weeks ago i had it checked at the garage and they ended up telling me it was the battery that died. I got them to change it and a week later it did the same thing. Went back at the garage and they said that they "test drove it" and that there was no problems. All their tests came out with no problems, so they don't know what's going on.

Brings me to this morning, has been at least 8-9 days since my last visit to the garage and it randomly did it again on my way to class.

Should i go to a new garage and pay the service fee to get a second opinion?

Any help is appreciated, tried giving as much details as i could. Sorry for my spelling/text mistakes if there is many.

Edit -> I have to drive back home in 8-10 days so i need this fixed asap.

This post was edited by lVlark on Jan 31 2013 07:07am

Sounds like your car is going into limp mode.

Try resetting the ECU. Disconnect the battery then pull fuse #6 from the fuse box in the engine compartment. Wait 10 minutes, reconnect battery, replace fuse.

You're going to have to let your ECU relearn your idle afterwards.

Make sure all electrical items are turned off.
Start the engine. Hold the engine speed at 3,000 rpm with no load (in Park or Neutral) until the radiator fan comes on.
Let the engine idle for about 5 minutes with the throttle fully closed and with all electrical items off.

If that doesn't work, your ECU might be toast.

my mom had issues when a squirrel made a nest in the air filter box, but im pretty sure a professional mechanic would of checked the air filter.
maybe a clogged fuel filter.

but both these things should not affect the batteries, so its probably something else

also if your first language is french, other users in this forum including me speak it fluently cuz coupe feu = fire stop lol

Oui je parle francais
J'comprend pas mon problème. C'est frustrant en esti.
C'est quoi un clogged fuel filter?



Thanks for the answer. I will check that out.

This post was edited by lVlark on Jan 31 2013 08:35am

c'est un filtre a gaz puis clogged c'est boucher, donc filtre a gas boucher empecherai ton gas de bien ce rendre au moteur causant une perte de puissance, meme chause avec un filtre a air boucher s'il n'y a pas asser d'air qui ce rend au moteur sa cause des serieuse perte de puissance, comme j'ai dit ma mere avec un nid d'écureille dans sa boite de filtre a air. mais je ne voi pas le lien de c'est 2 probleme avec ton symptome de batteri. tu pourai avoir un probleme electrique comme slyguso a écrit puis ton char ce protege en limitant les rpm a 3000

C'est bizare en esti, sa m'a reproduit le problème s'matin en me rendant à mes classes.. Je vien tout juste d'arriver cher moi et tout était normal.. j'comprend pu rien.

a tu fait ce que slyfosu a dit? jcompren qu'il fait pas beau dehors si ta pas de garage mais debrancher la batteri puis enlever une fuse sa vate prendre 10 minute tops

pas encore non, j'étais en classe. J'vais vérifier sa une fois qu'il peut arêtter de pleuvoir, c'est le déluge ici

this is exactly what is wrong with your car. i had the same problem on my older mustang and it turned out the pcm was faulty and they had to replace it. just bring it to a mechanic.