Hi all. Just bought myself a "get out of trouble" accord a month ago as my Renault was going to cost too much to fix. I only paid £550 for the honda and I quite like it but I am having some problems.
It's a V plate 20l vtec se with 97000 miles on the clock. The problem I have is basically it has no oomph! Ticks over nice and quietly but is quite jerky when on the move unless very gentle with the throttle and if I put my foot down I go nowhere fast!
The engine management light is on and the guy I bought it from said that his code reader said something about the cat emissions but I'm afraid I don't know the error code.
Spoke to our work diesel fitter and he said it sounded to him like the lambda sensor had gone and I then searched the net and everything I found seemed to agree with him.
Looked through the service history when I got home and found that the front "upstream" sensor had been replaced 18 months ago.
So while I wait for my own code reader to be delivered I wondered if anybody had any other ideas as to what my be the problem?
Any help would be appreciated as I really don't know much about these cars.
Many thanks.
Alan
It's a V plate 20l vtec se with 97000 miles on the clock. The problem I have is basically it has no oomph! Ticks over nice and quietly but is quite jerky when on the move unless very gentle with the throttle and if I put my foot down I go nowhere fast!
The engine management light is on and the guy I bought it from said that his code reader said something about the cat emissions but I'm afraid I don't know the error code.
Spoke to our work diesel fitter and he said it sounded to him like the lambda sensor had gone and I then searched the net and everything I found seemed to agree with him.
Looked through the service history when I got home and found that the front "upstream" sensor had been replaced 18 months ago.
So while I wait for my own code reader to be delivered I wondered if anybody had any other ideas as to what my be the problem?
Any help would be appreciated as I really don't know much about these cars.
Many thanks.
Alan