"Honda2nd"

> I have a 99 civic and during the past months, it has been difficult to
> start the car. So far, every time I can manage to start it after I turn
> the key a few times. There is a pattern though. It is more difficult to
> get it started in a hot or humid day. I guess this gets rid off the
> possbility of bad starters or alternator and leaves the possibility of
> bad connection or battery. My question is that whether batteries work
> better in a hot/humid day or in a cold day. Also recently when I start
> the car, I can hear something like clear clicking sound, not from the
> engine or starter, but from the direction of glove compartment or
> further or somewhere roughly that direction. And when there is that
> clicking sound, I found it is much more difficult to start the car. And
> yes, I also got a problem with my driver side door recently, months
> after the difficult starting problem. I can't lock the dirver side
> door. Even more wierd, occasionally, I can't open the door from inside
> after driving for a while. I can open it from outside though. Seemed it
> gets all the logic wrong (prohibit people from getting out other than
> the other way). I don't know if the lock problem is connected to the
> starting problem. Sometimes, I am thinking maybe there is a problem of
> electric connection that get all things behavior strangely. Probably i
> will start a separate thread to ask about the lock problem.

If you hear a clicking sound from the glove compartment then it's the
main relay. You can find the location and fix it here.

http://techauto.funpic.org/civicrelaylocation

You can also dielectric grease your plugs and seals the distributor cap.