1992 Honda Accord No one knows

1992 HONDA ACCORD
156,472 MILES • 4 CYL • 2WD • AUTOMATIC
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TEZ4
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My Honda Accord isn't driveable.
It will start up, but the whole car shakes, I called a few places, they said silly things like, "the engine locked up". Impossible, it will accelerate, if I drive it to like 45 mph, it will slowly decelerate and not allow me to accelerate after that. It needed an oil change, I was on my way to get one, the engine started smoking so I turned it off. I put more oil in it since it was almost out, now when I start it, the whole car will shake, like loud and hard, I don't know whats wrong with it.
Apr 23, 2009 at 11:37 PM
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TED-E-DEE
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It sounds like car is not firing on all cylenders. Especially when you say it is smoking. This may sound strange, but start the car & try to smell the smoke coming out of the tailpipe. It is either antifreeze or oil. If it is oil, which it sounds like if it runs out of oil like you said, may have bad rings on the pistons. That will also cause the plugs not to fire cause they have oil on them. If it's coolant, a bad head gskt. can also get plugs wet & won't fire. You can useually tell the difference b-tween oil smell & coolant smell. Coolant will burn your nostrills, b-carefull not to inhale very much ! It is TOXIC. lET US KNOW WHAT YOU FIND OUT. gOOD lUCK ! Ted-e-d
Apr 27, 2009 at 10:33 PM
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