Greetings from Arizona, a brand new Summer..

I have a 91 Honda Civic DX Hatchback which used to run fantastic or a year of non-summer days... (I don't know if that's got anything to do with my current car problem, but Arizonians like to make fuss of summer to prevent people from moving to AZ and overpopulating cities here... :D )... I added some coolant in the system last week and suddenly the Idling has started exhibiting strange things... I think, Idling has gone low and car starts to shake a little bit when on idle... plus, when I put the A/c ON, Idling drops down significantly and car shakes a hell lot... as if it's going to die...

I don't know for sure if it was the coolant addition that caused the problem or something else but has anybody got any suggestions ?


Lots of heat, ;)
Vin

:mad:


Boy oh boy...

I went to Firestones to check what was happening since I had their 20 dollars coupon... they startetd inspecting it and came out with a horroble looking problem... (they showed it to me of course... )... so the problem is that one of the caps on the Spark Plug was out of the head cover ! :eek:... with oil all over the place... the mechanic said it came out because there mst have been a leak in the gasket... he said that there is oil around the spark plug somewhere and I could not figure out exactly where... :confused:... but I could see oil on the head cover and places... that's why, he said, my car was idling weird...

So they gave me a quote... about $700... and I might buy a new car instead... :mad:

They included following things in the quote and mentioned that doing all those things is in my " Best Interests " (I hate that term cause people hide behind that term and avoid mentioning what's absolutely necessary and what's an add on sometimes.. )

1. Ignition wires ( $140 )
2. Ignition Parts (Platinum plug, remove and replace all plugs) ( $ 70 )
3. Fuel System Tune up ( $ 90 )
4. Ignition Parts (Distributor Cap) ( $ 80 )
5. Engline Gasket (Valve Cover Gasket Set) ( $ 102 )
6. Belts ( $ 150 )

... I asked them a question... tell me what's absolutely necessary to resolve the problem at hand... I don't care about what's in my Best Interests as I might sell this car soon... so I don't want to think about long term things... (I made that up since I wanted to know ASbsoltely Necessary things first ! )...

Can someone here advice me about the same ? My car currently is runnning fine as ever when I pushed that rubber cap inside again... no idling weirdness or nothing...

Thanks a million ( of Arizona Casino type! ;) )

Vin