I have a 2007 Honda Fit Sport and starting this afternoon, there have been some issues where it's taking the car anywhere from an additional five-to-twenty seconds to start up. I've included some video of it below:


It wasn't the battery. After playing with it for a few minutes, my stepdad determined it could possibly be the alternator, fuel injector, and/or spark plugs.

Anyone have any ideas on what could be going on? Also, anyone have any ballpark estimates on what such a repair would cost?

Some additional notes:

• I'm sitting just shy of 84,000 miles (my Honda Care expired about 4,000 miles ago).
• I've had no major repairs done to the car, only maintenance that I've always been on top of (i.e. oil changes, battery and brake replacements, etc).
• In fact, I was just at my local Honda dealership a week ago getting my oil change.

 

With that much mileage it's time to change your sparkplugs and get your valves clearance adjusted.

 

Mine just suddenly quit starting, too. Code reader came up with nothing. Did you check codes? My spark plugs looked good and were correctly gapped.

 

Usual culprits are electrical and fuel.
How do you know the battery is good ? Load test?
How do you know the spark plugs are good? Tip condition? Gap?
Neither of these can you determine justby looking st them.
And yes you should have re-gapped the plugs before now.
Changed the fuel filter? Coil paks? Air filter?
Gas filter $10; plugs $15 ; coil paks $100ea; ea,

 

My guess is the coil pack, but since those are a bit pricey start with the cheap and easy solutions posted above. I wouldn't leave this too long as it will eventually leave you stranded...

 

I've got 40,000 + or - on my 2008 and it's not starting today. Not a clue as to what it might be, battery is about half-way but jumping it did nothing. It cranks but just won't start, it's too new to be doing this!! I can't do anything with it until Monday when I can have it towed to a shop.



(in case anyone asks, I do routine maintenance and do not drive it hard.)

p.s. Now when I try to start it, the dash lights flash in sync with the motor cranking (but not starting). I had left the key in it and the wheel-well lights come on automatically...So I guess I drained the battery even more....

 

OK, here's another possibility....What happens when you try to start the car with a key that is no longer coded correctly? Does anything happen? I have 2 keys and one of them may be the wrong code. Would that cause the car to crank without starting? And if so, how do you re-set that?

 

From the video it looks like a battery that does not maintain voltage very well. Perhaps one of the cells inside is leaking.

What did you do to determine it wasnt a battery? The way the gauges flutter so much really tells me the battery is struggling to put out the amps, and we all know lower voltage means more amp draw

 

OK, that IS what was wrong. I couldn't find my normal set of keys, I grabbed the other key, that no longer works, and it cranked without starting. I just now tried the CORRECT key and bingo. No problem.

Well, how stupid am I?



Yeah, what a blonde moment....