answer:I am going to have to do a little thinking, but right off the top of my head, I can’t help but recall what happened to both of my Civics (a ‘90 and a ‘91). They both blew the igniter module, which is inside the distributor but fairly easily replaceable. The first one started misfiring and then, about a week later, it just died all of a sudden. No starty, no vroom-vroom. I replaced the igniter and it was back to perfection. The second one started acting odd above 2500 RPM with misfiring and a “waggling” tach that was all out of sync with the actual engine speed. Does that sound familiar? That went on for about a month before I bought the car and then one day it went completely and I had to drive 20 miles home without exceeding 1800 RPM under any circumstances (hard to do with an automatic) or else the engine would stall. When I got home, I took the igniter out of the old Honda (it had a snapped timing belt), put it in, and it worked. Neither displayed a check engine light, but both of them tripped a code 14 on the ECU though, so I knew what the problem was.