1999 Honda Accord car stalls and sometimes hard to turn ove

Tiny
DREWAFRICA
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  • 1999 HONDA ACCORD
  • 4 CYL
  • FWD
  • AUTOMATIC
  • 225,000 MILES
My accord has been cutting out intermittantly while driving. The engine seems to stop, the dash lights come on, and you can hear a little click come from the dash. Also all of the needles on the guages drop like the car is off. The strange part is if you try to turn it over the ignition grinds as if the car is on. Then with out doing anything the car is functioning fine again without restarting. For the first time yesterday when trying to start the car it would turn over but not stay running but for a second. Then after the 5th try it turned over and stayed running like nothing was ever wrong. These problems are very intermitant and there seems to be no similarity as to when it happens. Can you please help me?
Saturday, July 19th, 2008 AT 1:18 PM

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Tiny
KHLOW2008
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Hi drewafrica,

From your description I gather the engine is still running when the dashlights comes on.

The final part seems to point to a faulty ignition switch. Crank and it starts but release the key it stalls. When it cannot start, check if the dash lights are all on when key is in IG 11 position after cranking.
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