I was driving my car as i was making a turn my car engine stopped running. All my lights worked fine just the car would not start back up. Any idea whats wrong ?

 

What year Civic? How many miles?

Remove the oil fill cap, peer into the hole with a flashlight, and have a buddy crank the engine. Is the camshaft turning (anything moving) when the engine is cranking?

 

Check your distributor coil, the same thing happened to me and I needed a new coil. I would check to make sure its good.

 

hey thanks for the replies the guy that im using replaced my coils... so now hes gonna do the fuel pump and hope fully thats the fix

 

1999 honda civic dx with about 150k mile on it

 

There are ways to test those parts on the car, rather than replacing one after another and hoping that will fix it.

The first thing to check, like Ron said, is the timing belt. Suprisingly, they tend to strip when making ordinary turns or accelerating from a stop, not necessarily high revving or hard driving.

 

thanks will tell the mechanic that.. though the mechanic thought those parts that were replaced was the problem.. little did he know it wasnt. so now my bill keeps adding up sigh..

 

As mk suggested, if your mechanic's approach to fix the car is to replace parts until it runs, then bring the car to a competent mechanic.

 

That happened to me. I replaced the coil but the wires were pretty rusty. After I finally gave up (read "stripped the screwheads), I made new ones. Female spade on one end and a ring terminal on the other.

One day driving home (just ahead of what turned out to be our heaviest snow this winter) my car died! Beltway traffic (rush hour) and my car quits.... Turned out if was MY FAULT (and yes, I'm willing to admit it). I never got the female to mate completely, so it eventually back off enough to kill the connection (and the engine). If your connections are bad/rusty, you may want to look at that. It's strange to me that there would be any rust under the distributor cap, since there is that nice o-ring that theoretically seals it...

My $0.02's worth ;-)