I have a 99 civic and during the past months, it has been difficult to start the car. So far, every time I can manage to start it after I turn
the key a few times. There is a pattern though. It is more difficult to
get it started in a hot or humid day. I guess this gets rid off the possbility of bad starters or alternator and leaves the possibility of bad connection or battery. My question is that whether batteries work better in a hot/humid day or in a cold day. Also recently when I start the car, I can hear something like clear clicking sound, not from the engine or starter, but from the direction of glove compartment or further or somewhere roughly that direction. And when there is that clicking sound, I found it is much more difficult to start the car. And
yes, I also got a problem with my driver side door recently, months after the difficult starting problem. I can't lock the dirver side door. Even more wierd, occasionally, I can't open the door from inside after driving for a while. I can open it from outside though. Seemed it
gets all the logic wrong (prohibit people from getting out other than the other way). I don't know if the lock problem is connected to the starting problem. Sometimes, I am thinking maybe there is a problem of electric connection that get all things behavior strangely. Probably i will start a separate thread to ask about the lock problem.