My civic starts up fine and once it is going has no problems. The problem I have is when I am first accelerating and need to stop (example stop and go traffic where you don't even get out of first gear or I stop at the stop sign that is one house away from mine) my car starts chugging like it's going to die. The clutch is in when this happens and it doesn't make a difference if I have the AC on. Sometimes it happens in the morning and others at the end of the day. I can find no consistent pattern. I have noticed that it doesn't really do it in cold weather, but now that spring is here it's starting up again. I have found that if I put the car in neutral, the chugging stops. Any suggestions?
Apr 25, 2008 at 3:09 PM