{"id":78826,"date":"2022-01-03T08:21:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T16:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=78826"},"modified":"2022-01-03T08:21:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T16:21:49","slug":"1989-honda-civic-1-6-no-start-when-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2022\/01\/1989-honda-civic-1-6-no-start-when-cold","title":{"rendered":"1989 Honda Civic 1.6 No Start when cold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No start when cold, runs great when warm outside. Replaced Idle Air Control Valve, Cleaned tank and fuel system. Seems to be a common issue with these cars, but cant seem to get an answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have had this happen to me a while back on a vehicle and it turned out to be worn electrodes on the spark plugs. They were rounded on the ends. Installed a new set of spark plugs and no longer had an issue with it starting when cold. So I would pull a spark plug and take a look at it. And if it has been a year or two since replacing the plugs, now would be a good time to do that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/sparkplugdiagnosticchart.html\">Spark Plug Diagnostic Chart<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/nostart.html\">Step by Step No Start Diagnostic Chart<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Should that not be the case for you. Your in luck since it won&#8217;t start. This means you now have the ability to see what it isn&#8217;t getting. It either isn&#8217;t getting fuel or spark. A quick test would be having someone spray starting fluid in the air filter while you are cranking it over. If it starts, you have a fuel issue. This could be either not enough gas or too much air. And of course if it doesn&#8217;t start you have no spark for some reason. See if there are any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/images\/nav-buttons\/auto-repair\/trouble-codes.jpg\">check engine light codes<\/a> present that might guide you in the right direction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No start when cold, runs great when warm outside. Replaced Idle Air Control Valve, Cleaned tank and fuel system. Seems to be a common issue with these cars, but cant seem to get an answer. I have had this happen to me a while back on a vehicle and it turned out to be worn&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2022\/01\/1989-honda-civic-1-6-no-start-when-cold\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1989 Honda Civic 1.6 No Start when cold<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17169,"featured_media":78835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-honda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}