"Elle" <honda.lioness@nospam.earthlink.net> wrote in
news:cPSnh.7873$yx6.4368@newsread2.news.pas.earthl ink.net:

> 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.
>>
>
>
>

I wonder if his igniter is dying,and is giving bad data to the ECU for RPM
control?

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