Car was difficult to start twice. I thought nothing of the issue. Driving home from work in may 2010 and the entire car went dead. No power to the engine or any accessories. Luckily I was not in traffic or else the situation could have ended much differently with a complete loss of power. I coasted to a stop and wiggled the key, and limped it home with the hazard lights on. I researched the problem on the internet and traced the issue to a defective ignition switch. I ordered a beckarnley #201-1807 switch to replace the old one. The old switch was clearly worn and had burn marks on the metal, thus causing the lack of conduction in the ignition system. The car is running perfectly now. I believe this should be a recall as it is for other model years of the same model (honda accord).
1994 Honda Accord: sudden loss of power
7 of the 369 complaints about the 1994 Honda Accord describe sudden loss of power.
- owner complaints
- 7
- of this car's complaints
- 2%
- recalls
- 0
Sudden loss of power by model year
What owners say
The car lost power while I was sitting at a red light. I thought it had stalled, and it took me a couple of minutes to get it restarted. While I was driving home a few minutes later, the car lost power while I was driving. Again, I thought it had stalled, but I thought it odd the car would stall while driving at speeds around 45 MPH. I had to coast on the momentum of the speed the car was traveling before it lost power. I had to maneuver across 2 lanes of busy and fast-moving traffic and barely made it to the right shoulder before the car stopped. I feel I only made it off the road because the driver of the pickup behind me realized something was wrong, and he straddled the lanes of traffic behind me, forcing traffic to slow down so I could get through. I feel a serious accident could have occurred had this driver not done what he did. Again, it took me a couple of minutes to restart it. I made it home fine, and we took it to our mechanic, who searched the engine, tuned up the car, but found no reason why it would have stalled. When I drove it again, the problem occurred again, this time when I was waiting to turn left into my home driveway. I switched my hazard lights on, but I'm not sure the lights actually turned on, because it took the drivers behind me some time to realize that I wasn't going to be turning left after traffic cleared. This time, I noticed that all power to the dashboard indicators was gone, and that the car had not actually stalled as I had originally thought the first time the problem occurred. A return trip to the mechanic confirmed that the entire ignition control unit and the ignition coil was no longer functioning properly, and he replaced it. There have been no problems with the car since the module was replaced, and it's been a few months. We had the recurrent problems in the 2 weeks leading up to when we had the ignition control unit and ignition coil replaced on 9/22/06.
While driving oil blew out of oil seal onto engine compartment, causing heavy smoke to come from engine. Consumer's vision was temporarily impaired, vehicle shut off/ lost power steering. Consumer felt this was very unsafe. Please provide any further information.
Traveling on highway at 65 MPH in high speed lane, lost all power to car--had to be towed, distributor at fault--cost $682 to repair. Since learned this is the achilles heel of hondas--not too happy to be in high speed lane and lose all power--dangerous.
Balancer shaft seal popped out. All engine oil quickly lost. Camshaft froze in head. Crankshaft continued to turn, stripping teeth off of timing belt. Oil soaked brake pads, tires and belts. Mechanic said engine needs replacement, damage irrepairable. Head, crankshaft, and pistons damaged. Repair costs $2000 -$4000. Car lost all power and was stranded in the road, could have caused accident. If I had to stop in a hurry, could have crashed due to oil soaked brakes. Why isn't there a recall on this engine. I see numerous complants on this same faulty oil seal.
Oil leaked from the engine causing it to completely lose power. Engine has to be replaced. Car has less than 60,000 miles
While driving 80 MPH the RPM meter suddenly dropped to zero, causing total loss of power. Dealer stated that a malfunction occurred within the coils/rotors and within the electrical system. Please give any further details.
Service bulletins that may apply
- Heater blower motor gets hot or blows a fuse
- Subject regarding customer complaints that the engine hesitates briefly when accelerating
- Customers may complain of a brief hesitation when accelerating at high engine speeds
- Information regarding balancer shaft oil seal labor operation
- Product update regarding front balancer shaft oil seal
- Subject regarding the front balance shaft retainer product update
- A condition may exist where the front balancer shaft oil seal may back out of the oil pump housing over time
- Parts information bulletin regarding product update for the front balancer oil seal retainer kit
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the 1994 Honda Accord loss of power
Is sudden loss of power a common problem on the 1994 Honda Accord?
7 of 369 owner complaints about the 1994 Honda Accord (2%) mention sudden loss of power. The model year with the most reports is 2018.
Is there a recall or service bulletin for this on the 1994 Honda Accord?
There are 0 recalls and 11 service bulletins for the same area of the car. Check them below with your VIN.
Other symptoms on the 1994 Honda Accord
ABS 39No deployment 25Tire blowout 13Brake failure 12Stalling 10Ball joint 8Fuel gauge 7Sudden acceleration 7Fuel leak 6
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