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HONDA ACCORD

HONDALADY

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My car is a 92 honda accord ex with about 100,500 miles on it or so (give or take a few miles) it has a 4 cylinder engine. (sorry not sure how many liters can come back and post that if i need to) I get in my car and start it up and the steering wheel gets to shaking pretty bad with the air conditioner on. it does it a little with the ac off but alot with it on. i was told that the motor mount bolts might be going bad. would that be a correct diagnosis?

Aug 28, 2007 at 4:18 PM

88HONDAACCORD

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well it could be the motor mount is broken or as a result of lower tire pressure and also could be low idle and if it is low idle dont hide a higher idle of many other problems it could be but check those first three problems

Sep 26, 2007 at 5:12 AM

BRUCE HUNT

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Listening to your comments I am going to wager that the vehicle is idling to low. Your vehicle should be idling at about 750 rpm + or - 50 whether the ac is on or not.

Sep 27, 2007 at 1:36 PM

HONDAPRO

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You know my car did the same thing. I have a 90 accord F22A-4 with about 40k miles on it. But it turned out to be the front motor mount was destroyed. We pulled the mount and it fell apart. Still had a fairly rough idle and drive after words with n without AC.. that turned out to be the EGR vavle was going bad.

Sep 30, 2007 at 5:55 PM

HONDALADY

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thank you very much for the information. I will check into those things.

Oct 4, 2007 at 8:30 AM

HONDALADY

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Ok did you mean the motor mount bolts or the entire motor mounts? you ment the bolts and rubber grummets right?

Oct 4, 2007 at 5:49 PM

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