- Oct 18, 2004
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A buddy of mines has a stock 99 civic coupe automatic. He told me, he drove it home one night all fine and next morning it doesn't start. stated it sounds like it wants to start but doesn't. I told him to start with the simple stuff and try to jump the car. I gave him my battery charger/jump box and that didn't work.
He said one of his buddies looked at took out the plug to check for spark and there was no spark.
I'm going with that but i haven't seen the car for myself yet. Its pretty simple to tell if there is spark or not, so i'm going in thinking i need a distributor. Looking up the pricing its about $160-350.
Is there a way to just replace/test smaller parts on the distributor. I'm going there pulling the cap off and checking out the rotor. But i'm leaning on it being an issue with the whole distributor.
Any other things to look at. Obviously i know 3 things to needed to start, air fuel and spark, well that and battery power. Its a civic, things should be simple to fix RIGHT?
He said one of his buddies looked at took out the plug to check for spark and there was no spark.
I'm going with that but i haven't seen the car for myself yet. Its pretty simple to tell if there is spark or not, so i'm going in thinking i need a distributor. Looking up the pricing its about $160-350.
Is there a way to just replace/test smaller parts on the distributor. I'm going there pulling the cap off and checking out the rotor. But i'm leaning on it being an issue with the whole distributor.
Any other things to look at. Obviously i know 3 things to needed to start, air fuel and spark, well that and battery power. Its a civic, things should be simple to fix RIGHT?