Studdering/Spluttering

[beeza]

My car was doing this on the way to work today.If I give it just a little bit of gas it's ok,but if I give it any more than that it was studdering/spluttering.I check under the hood for anything that may have come off but all looks like it's in it's place.Any ideas anyone?
My car 96 EK1 Civic sedan d16y4 SOHC

[Zilli]

a friend of mine had the exact same problem in the exact same car...

change your plugs

[beeza]

Cheers.But The plugs are NGK Iridiums,only done 12,000kms...

[traumatized]

you haven't by any chance cleaned your engine bay recently have you? (degrease and washed off with water). I had a mate who gave his engine a degrease and rinsed it with water and in the process the water entered into the spark plugs.

to resolve the issue he took out the plugs and dried everything off and it was all good again.

[beeza]

No I haven't but I did exactly that b4...

[EuroDude]

Yeah happened to my Civic as well, water entered the spark plug wells and caused high rev shorting.

Could also be bad spark plugs, or spark plug cables with too much resistance, or a Distributor problem.

[Int3gra-T]

just get water dispursant and spray it down your spark plug holes
and put yor leads back and give it a whirl

[beeza]

Yeah happened to my Civic as well, water entered the spark plug wells and caused high rev shorting.

Could also be bad spark plugs, or spark plug cables with too much resistance, or a Distributor problem.

Thanks mate,I'll check it all out.

[Benson]

So just suddenly happen? Don't think it'll be spark plugs.

Sounds electrical. Do a ECU check see if any code/s comes up.

[beeza]

Well I just drove home and it's not doing it now....???

[EuroDude]

Perhaps water found its way ontop of the engine and entered the spark plug wells during the storms, but have since dried up ftw

[beeza]

hehe ftw! lets hope so Cheers!