1st time owner, some issues!

Asked by quillabeans Dec 03, 2016 at 07:06 PM about the 1998 Honda Civic LX

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

Just got this car about a month ago. When idle & driving my RPMs are high
but low speed & I have a CEL. When accelerating the car hesitates and
then "catches up". I'm assuming it's a vacuum leak or maybe a shift
solenoid. When I bought this car I had an oil change, tune up, change
spark plugs & spark plug wires replaced, power steering hose replaced,
distributor cap & rotor replaced, valve cover gasket replaced, radiator flush,
and coolant put in. Please help me out, I really love this car and I can't
afford another one at the moment.

4 Answers

F_O_R answered 7 years ago

First thing get the codes read to know what is going on but the car probably needs a tuneup and filter change.

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quillabeans answered 7 years ago

I had codes ran yesterday and nothing came up. Which was weird. I'm thinking a filter change because that's the one thing I haven't done. Thank you.

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