Did you buy an OEM coil?

Original ignition wires? How about the distributor cap and
rotor? If age is unknown or they are the originals, I'd
replace all these with OEM, then proceed from there.


"John Smith" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote
> My car is 99 4D Accord LX 4cyl. 5 speed with 183,000
> miles, all mine. In August, as I pulled off the highway
> from driving all day, I encountered a definite problem:
> when coming to a stop, the car dies instead of idling.
> Sometimes it restarts fine, a few times it runs roughly
> for a second or two before "catching" and then it will
> idle smoothly and normally -- until the next stop. When
> the car is started cold, everything operates normally and
> it never dies. Once the engine comes up to operating
> temperature, however, the problem starts again. As I
> learned this, the car threw a trouble code (Insufficient
> EGR lift) but only once and when I reset it, it did not
> return. SO: I changed the plugs and coolant (the latter
> seemed to help, but only a little) and ran some injector
> cleaner through. Based on a tip received here in this
> group (thanks, Elle) I changed the ignition coil and that
> seemed to do the trick. The car still seemed a bit
> "hestiant" just before stopping but it generally stopped
> dying every time I stop.
>
> So a few weeks pass and I drive all day on the Interstate
> again. About 600 miles into the trip as I slow down to
> pay a toll -- it dies and the condition is exactly as it
> was in the first place. Within a hundred miles more I had
> the Check Engine light on again (same code) but it reset
> itself automatically a couple of hundred miles after that.
> To get home and since then, I have become adept at using
> two feet on three pedals simultaneously in order to avoid
> having the engine die at every stop but it's annoying.
>
> Is it possible that I fried the new coil so quickly? (The
> car runs cool and has never overheated.) Are there any
> clues in the fact that sustained highway driving seemed to
> bring on the problem both times? What about the EGR
> message? I'm searching for ideas and have always
> appreciated all there is to be learned here. Thanks for
> your thoughts.
>