"Ricky Spartacus" <rspartacus@gmail.comNOSPAM> wrote in
news:Iw0ff.15554$D13.1315@newssvr11.news.prodigy.c om:
> "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.
>
It could also be a bad starter solenoid....IF the car doesn't CRANK when
the key is turned.(he didn't mention whether the car cranks or doesn't.If
it does crank,then probably the main relay as you said.)
Some Honda products have "non-replaceable" solenoids,like my Integra.
I found this on the 'net;
http://www.nationsautoelectric.com/Nippondenso.html
Source for a $30 solenoid "rebuild" kit.
I've ordered and installed this kit in my Integra,it solved the
intermittent cranking problem I had.The parts were of excellent quality.
--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net