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Old 01-20-2006, 01:23 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Spiratic tachometer, car sputters in 1st, 2nd, 3rd gear... died also at a stop light.

I've just come accross some major problems today. My tachometer has been acting up lately for about the past week or two. The needle sparatically jumps and sputters on its own (keep in mind this is all it's been doing the past week or two... just spiratic jumping of the tach, until today...). After I filled her up (today), my car REALLY feels like it's struggling to get out of 1st and 2nd gear. Everytime I accelerate in these gears, even sometimes in 3rd, it would sputter or feel like it wants to die like it's a fuel problem. One time it even just stalled out on me right when I tried accelerating when the light turned green.

I changed my ICM a few months ago when my tacho was also doing this... it seemed to have solved the problem until now. Need to get a new dizzy? Alternator? Ignitor? What else can it be? Seems like it just got worse and worse from when my tach started acting up... at first it would just jump around sometimes, then more often, then really often + my sputter problem...

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Honda OEM ICM or an autozone replacement part?
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honda oem yes^. ... bleh really need to solve this quick... Need a car for school/work =[ I found from multiple searches that changing the entire dizzy housing, alternator, or ignitor solved this problem for them. I don't want to blindly throw parts at it though as it's quite expensive =[ anyway to test these?
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