Trying to help a friend with his (actually his wife's) Civic. Since this is the wife's car I really can't get any info on maintenance. When I ask his wife about when was this or that done/changed, I just get the stare of "you expect me to know that?"
Car starts fine and idles fine. Cruises at speed and decelerates fine. Problem occurs only on acceleration. When accelerating the engine always hesitates to some degree, and on most occasions it stalls. The car will restart without difficulty, but it goes right back to the hesitation/stalling under acceleration. Does this hot or cold. For those of you that ever owned a carburated car it feels just like a broken accelerator pump. Even with all of the stalling, there are no codes set in the ECU.
With no codes stored it makes me think it is something more conventional like plugs, wires, cap, rotor, timing, ect. The only test we ran so far was a misting of the plug wires to check for insulation breaks. No arcing, sputtering or stalling with that test. I know I need to check the plugs and check the cap for burns/cracks, but before I go much further I would like to know if anyone has experienced such a problem with their Civic.
Any help would be much appreciated.