Hey guys. My girlfriend is driving out of town on the highway, and her 2000 Honda Accord 5AT keeps stalling. I am trying to talk her through it on the phone right now. She thought it was the transmission that gave out on her. but she said it feels like when a manual transmission stalls on the highway. She threw it into neutral and restarted the engine while doing about 35 MPH. She said that the engine has done this three times in 20 min. what seems to be the problem? is it the fuel injectors? (she just filled up and has a full tank). She said that no engine lights come on after she resrtarts. its as if the engine is fine. and when the car goes limp the headlights and radio stay on so its not the battery. Please help if you can.... thanks

 

Sorry mod's if this is in the wrong section, but I was trying to type this as fast as possible since she is on the road now, and it is nearly midnight, and I will soon be too far away to get to her within a reasonable time frame

 

Anyone?!

 

No idea about the stalling, but to be honest. If she or you are worried that the car won't get her where she's going. Have her pull over and call a tow truck. Better safe than sorry, ya know. Also, by continuing to go when you have a problem may cause more damage. That's my $.02 Good luck.

 

yeah she is trying to limp the car home right now, but I sent her brother to go pick her up/ follow her as close to home as she can get (since hes closer)

 

Where is she headed too?

Tampa?

 

Yeah she was headed back to our house in tampa (since we dont technically move out for another 3 weeks) and she has to work tomorrow. But I am in Orlando for grad school now (where both of our parents live). I told her to come back to East orlando as far as she can make it and if it breaks down to call AAA, then she can take my car to tampa tomorrow. So hopefully she will be back on this side of town in the next 45 minutes

 

Might be cracked vaccum line?

 

I think i read something about a bad idle air control valve

 

yeah that could be it. Honda just did a huge maintenance on the car since she has like 150,000 miles on the car, and they tested all the lines (or so they said) about a month ago. im thinking they messed with something and damaged it in the process.

 

Im researching that right now...

 

im checking to see if the EGR valve is known for that sort of thing... more than likely it does need to be replaced.

 

Sounds like a dirty MAF. At least if it was a VQ engine that's what I'd say...sorry, might wanna ask on a honda forum LOL.