Question about my girlfriends car
 

My girlfriends has a 96 honda civic and it is running a little rough. After the car has warmed up it will stutter alot. It will do this in every gear. Also after sitting at idle for a few minutes the engine will stutter and eventually stall. I was just going to give it a tune up, new fuel filter. What do you guys think?

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It sounds like it might be an ignition problem. I don't know anything about imports (other then they are slow) I would look at the distrubitor or the mag pickup, what ever it has. A tune up wouldn't hurt.

My CRX was doing the same thing a little over a year ago, the problem was the timing belt was strecthed. It eventually broke, and let me tell you changing the timing belt sucks.

It could be something as simple as a plug wire....I would check all the basics first cap,rotor,plugs and wires.

Later,

Thanks guys. Im going to replace the plugs, cap, rotor. The wires are new so they should be fine. Do you think i should bother changing the fuel filter? I will also check the timing belt.

Coughing Civic
 

Clogged gas filter is a likely culprit as any other but if you can borrow or rent a code scanner that would be a big help.

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See if it has an Idle Air Control valve. That's usually the cause of those problems.

I just replaced the plugs, cap and rotor, wires, and fuel filter, and it is still doing it. Im going to try and get a cade scanner.

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Just kidding, it sounds like the timming is way off. I don't know how they keep there timming where it's a distributor, or crank timming, but is could be going out or got moved. KInda sounds like it running too retarded(Hon-Duu)lol, sorry.

Does it run fine above idle?

How many miles are on it? Honda recommends changing the timing belt every xxxxx amount of miles before it breaks. A broken timing belt can do a pile of damage on some cars ( valves hitting pistons ). I would change the timing belt if it has a pile'o' miles.