VirtuesPlea@gmail.com wrote:
> This past Wednesday, my 1998 Acura Integra was running fine. My
> boyfriend took it to Jiffy Lube to get the oil changed (I don't know
> all that much about cars, but enough to change the oil myself. But he
> insists on getting it done). As I was driving home that night, I
> noticed once that when I took off from a start, the car hesitated just
> a little. The next day, it did it again as I was leaving a parking
> lot. Except this time it hesitated quite a bit and I almost got hit
> by an oncoming car.
> The next morning (yesterday), he noticed that it hesitated and almost
> stalled out, once again, from a stop, leaving a parking lot. As I
> left home that morning to go to work, I almost got hit again crossing
> an intersection. What happens is I press the gas, and the car
> accelerates a little and then it feels like it's not getting any gas,
> and won't go . . . only momentum is carrying the car forward. And it
> begins to stall, and then suddenly its ok, at least while its still
> moving. Take off from a start again, and it happens again. Most of
> my drive is down an expressway, so it's not stop and go, and I got to
> work.
>
> At lunch, my boyfriend put some STP fuel line cleaner in the tank and
> filled the tank with gas. He then spent my lunch hour driving the car
> around to get the fuel through the lines. On the way home, as soon as
> I get off the expressway near my house, there's a light. I stopped at
> the light, and when I tried to accelerate from a stop, the car began
> to die. I had enough momentum to get off to the side of the road.
>
> My boyfriend came and got the car started again, but it died almost
> right away. Got it started again, I drove around a parking lot for a
> couple of minutes, seemed to be ok. But then it died at the first
> light I had to stop at. He ended up driving it the rest of the way
> home.
>
> My dad's a diesel mechanic and is coming to look at it, but any hints
> as to what this might be would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks!

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It sounds like Biffy Lube disconnected a vacuum line or something under
the hood. Also, check to see that your coolant reservoir is full enough.
Hondas / Acuras get very sensitive if you don't keep AIR out of the
cooling system. If your reservoir is low, there's no coolant to displace
any air in the system (since Biffy Lube was the last to touch it).

'Curly'