Loud POP while driving last night.. suggestions? - Honda Prelude Forum

mr. r00t · 07-17-2003, 04:11 PM

Hello,
Last night while driving home from work I heard an extremely loud POP noise. Now it's possible I GUESS that it could have come from someone on the sidewalk, but when I looked I didn't notice anyone.

The noise was one of those extremely loud ones that makes you close your eyes and cringe from the loudness. Anyone have any suggestions? It sounded like it was coming from under the car.

I've had another car that made a loud pop once when a hole busted in the exhaust pipe somewhere. My car is low as hell, so I guess maybe all the scraping could have weakened it to a point where a hole might have been produced.

Anyway, this morning when I woke up there was no puddle of anything on the garage floor, and she drives smooth as ever.

It's a 93' Prelude Si. As always, thanks in advance.

Jim

concLude · 07-17-2003, 04:17 PM

dont drive so fast.

back fire maybe? usualy with wierd noises i let dont bother finding out where they are from, they just generally go away after a few days, my car self heals.

mr. r00t · 07-17-2003, 04:45 PM

Could have been backfire I guess, I would have thought that it would happen more than just once ever and the engine would sound junky or something (like a stereotypical backfiring peice of junk) but I guess you could be right.

And I don't drive fast unless challenged at a light.

concLude · 07-17-2003, 04:55 PM

once when was being dumb and going 130 ish, i heard a loud ass pop, how fast were you going?

i'm thinking back fire still, because i couldn't find squat after my pop, but that was 3 years ago, and one engine before

mr. r00t · 07-17-2003, 05:33 PM

About 40-45mph in the city going block to block.

bsi · 07-17-2003, 11:40 PM

maybe some punk kids in the bushes threw some fireworks at you

VTEC Shore Lude · 07-17-2003, 11:50 PM

probably a back fire....whens the last time u changed your plugs and wires? Cause they can cause backfire too, not just a backed up muffler

jsmooney · 07-18-2003, 02:22 AM

i was driving in this ghetto dark part of town and i heard a loud sound like i ran over a fvcking huge something in the road or hit a fvcking huge hole. i went back and NOTHING was there. My friend was like "dude, you hit a ____________!"

mr. r00t · 07-18-2003, 10:26 AM

lol ubetter.

VTEC: Good thinking, I only bought the car about 5k miles ago, but I certainly think plugs are wires are due for an upgrade.

SlowSi · 07-18-2003, 05:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by UBetterBelieveIt
My friend was like "dude, you hit a ____________!"

You hit a black dude?

jsmooney · 07-18-2003, 11:41 PM

i don't know.....you said it not me! oh, and the word he said would have asteriks