Help needed. Dangerous!
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Help needed. Dangerous!
I drive a '99 civic DX and recently I have been having some weird problems. Sometimes in the middle of driving the car, out of nowhere the car will just shut off. The engine doesn't hesitate at all and the only way I know immediately that it does it is because the power door locks unlock and I can't accelerate. 
Also sometimes when I go to turn the car on all of the lights in my cluster blink real fast and I hear a clicking noise coming from the ecu area. Not to stop there buy my a/c pretty much doesn't come on most of the time and my passenger side power window (after market) doesn't work most of the time. If anybody has any ideas whatsoever as to what could be causing these problems please help me out. It's getting kind of dangerous to drive through an intersection and have your car die half way through the light.
Also not sure if this has anything to do with it or not but the car used to be an automatic and was converted to a manual.
Problems:
#1 Car shuts off without warning (three or four times in last three months)
#2 A/C works about 10% of the time
#3 Passenger side window won't work but about 10% of the time
#4 Cluster lights blink and ecu makes clicking noises sometimes
Please help.
Also sometimes when I go to turn the car on all of the lights in my cluster blink real fast and I hear a clicking noise coming from the ecu area. Not to stop there buy my a/c pretty much doesn't come on most of the time and my passenger side power window (after market) doesn't work most of the time. If anybody has any ideas whatsoever as to what could be causing these problems please help me out. It's getting kind of dangerous to drive through an intersection and have your car die half way through the light.Also not sure if this has anything to do with it or not but the car used to be an automatic and was converted to a manual.
Problems:
#1 Car shuts off without warning (three or four times in last three months)
#2 A/C works about 10% of the time
#3 Passenger side window won't work but about 10% of the time
#4 Cluster lights blink and ecu makes clicking noises sometimes
Please help.
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Sounds Like maybe you have a Loose Harness clip on your ECU or maybe a bad ground wire somewhere......
Check your starter harness, This (car dies and cluster lights flash quick) happened to my Corolla back in the day, Turned out the ground wire harness was melted inside Female/Male connection lost contact of each other and threw all sorts of stuff out of whack.
Window problem sounds like a bad switch (happened in my '00 Si three days after purchase)
A/C Problem,....Couldn't tell you, But also sounds like something not making full contact.
Good Luck on your Fix
Check your starter harness, This (car dies and cluster lights flash quick) happened to my Corolla back in the day, Turned out the ground wire harness was melted inside Female/Male connection lost contact of each other and threw all sorts of stuff out of whack.
Window problem sounds like a bad switch (happened in my '00 Si three days after purchase)
A/C Problem,....Couldn't tell you, But also sounds like something not making full contact.
Good Luck on your Fix
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your symtoms with the cluster and shutdown only happened to me twice...the 1st time was when snapped my timing belt ...then i rebuilt and then it happend agian when i snapped it a second time...then i kicked the everliving shit outta my lude..but luckaly that aint your issue
