wattie

Buy a Honda they said, reliable Japanese engineering they said....

Had it 6ish months things been spot on , thirsty old beast but good car all the same , came back from offshore last Tuesday and the car had sat on the drive for 2 weeks and started on the button , drove over to my lock up to fuk about with the 3 door, sat for about an hour and wouldn't start , no spark , got called offshore again on Thursday and got back today so had a look, couldn't see anything obvious but absolutely no spark , apparently there bad for chewing threw distributors? Anyone ever owned one or worked at Honda? my brothers got a code reader he's bringing from his work tomorrow but thought I'd ask see if anyone's had this issue as when I posted pics when I got it some people did say they'd had one before , new dizzy is £200+vat but don't want to shell out for one till I've had the code reader on it

RichieST

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Crank / cam position sensor?

wattie

Hopefully that would show up on the code reader tomorrow , pretty pissed off as I've had to insure the back up golf so I've got something to drive !

Cossie Sean

dizzy has the cam sensor built into it if that makes sense... they fuck up all the time and are ££££££££££££

Cossie Sean

or if looking for cheap used ones,

Prelube 2.2 ones fit if partnumbers match

jon@work

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does the fuel pump work for approx 2 seconds when the key is turned to position 2 ?

if not, the main relay is probably at fault

wattie

Yeah fuel pump works fine plugs were soaking plus you can hear it buzz , aye had the dizzy apart and seen the cam sensor , not the cheapest of bits like Honda want £200+vat witch isn't too bad as all the cars cost me so far is fuel and tax , just gutted it stopped and refused to start !

jamie's

all the honda range had a habit of eating their distributor and losing the spark
that was around 95-2000, dont know what age yours is or if they kept doing it after that on that model
but its defo top of the likely suspects

RichieST

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Guess you could take the cap off and see if the rotor arm is turning when you crank it?

wattie

It's a w reg so 2000, guess I'll just pop up to Honda and get a dizzy in the morning , it's depressing me driving the golf about , 1.6 of pure power !

stwibs

You can use a paperclip to bridge a connector and it will flash up a cpl of leds which give u a fault code.
How to used to be on the uk atr site.

wattie

Just called Honda for a new one .... £550 and on back order till end of January ! eBay then ...

GVK.

wattie

Can I fuck find the distributer I need , mines has 1 plug with 6 pins and every one on eBay has 2 plugs, knew I should of bought an st220 instead

flashturbo

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Try Lee at H&H ignition solutions, he may be able to point you in the right direction or even fix yours.

RichieST

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Have you definitely confirmed it's the dizzy that's failed?

wattie

Yeah definetly the dizzy, got the code reader on it and all sensors are functioning properly , cranking voltage good, getting power to the dizzy but total dead no spark, got a single plug dizzy off eBay for £35 + £10 postage so if that works then good if not it's only £45 so least I'm not spending £550 on a brand new one

s1cosse

Try replacing coil in the Dizzey mate we'll common fault with Hondas

wattie

My brother tested the dizzy today and it's the ignition module in side the dizzy , got figures off some Honda site and tested the resistance across the coil and ignition module and everything was good apart from that so fingers crossed my eBay special dizzy works then it's getting punted in favour of an Audi or a v6 mondy

zippyobrien

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There's and igniter inside the dizzy. This failed on my vti

Glenn_

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Bloody cars matey. It doent matter what make they are they all have there faults.

wattie

Aye 100% Glenn , used to have a diesel mk1 mondao and that never broke once and it got used as a daily for 5 years ! Want something "fancy" and it fucking dies on me lol

wattie

Yeah the igniter is the ignition module , mines is the simple version with just coil , ignition module and cam sensor , other later ones have another 4 cog wheel and 2 more sensors , pain in the arse man !

Glenn_

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I think that sometimes the newer the car the more unreliable they get cause there are to many sensors and bloody pipes on them lol.

stwibs

5th gear and synchros next,
Then exhaust flexi,
then timing belt tensioner !!!
Thats what i had in the 7 years i had mine !!

wattie

Yeah it got a rebuild box when I did the clutch caus it was crunching in 3rd and 5th , it's a year 2000 car so the early ones which had the weakish box, timing belts been along with water pump and the retro fitted tensioner mod , as I've said it was a cracking car and once all that had been done it's been super reliable and it's taken quite a beating , can kick the fuk out if it and it just asks for more , just quite thirsty