chiebube: Thats cool. But for your ride to rise up to 1500rpm on cranking, i think its a bit very odd. At most it should be 1200/1300rpm.

Piyke:

1500 is right on spec, it then gradually drops to 750-800rpm once the car reaches operating temperature

Piyke: It's a pity but its real, for some time now (about 6weeks) my 03' Accord had been having starting issues. It was quite classical; first start for the day would be sluggish i.e. instead of the RPM rising to 1500 immediately, it would hover at 500rpm for like 2-3 secs before rising to the usual 1500. This would also repeat itself once the car was left for a long time. It later progressed to stalling on first start and then upon second crank it would start as normal as though it had no problems.

The most amazing thing in this was that there was no CHECK ENGINE light!!!

I have been a steady customer of NNPC Mega station, the main one in Owerri.

In the course of my DIY attempts at fixing the issue, I had pulled out the fuel pump assembly and cleaned it thoroughly. Whilst on that I found some drops of water and tiny black masses (gum like in consistency). After this fix I poured in some injector cleaner, had some relief for about 2 weeks but the problem crept back.

It was my mechanic who suggested that I drive the current tank to reserve and then add another fuel injector cleaner. That I did and for 2days now the car has started in the mornings instantly without any hesitation.

For now, no NNPC (Mega) for me

chiebube: Thats cool. But for your ride to rise up to 1500rpm on cranking, i think its a bit very odd. At most it should be 1200/1300rpm.

Piyke:

1500 is right on spec, it then gradually drops to 750-800rpm once the car reaches operating temperature

Ikenna351:

Are you sure that 1500 rpm at cold start is your car spec? Because none of my Lions have ever gone beyond 1k rpm at cold start, no matter how cold coolant or weather is. My ES9J4S would gradually drop and stays at 600 - 650 rpm, while my ZN3J will drop to 750 rpm and stays there.

Unless Honda injection/ignition system is that different, anyway.

Ikenna

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